Explore the jersey: What you should know about jersey printing techniques
You must have heard of embroidery, heat transfer and other technologies, then have you heard of thermal sublimation, silicone heat transfer? These are actually used to print jersey Logo, team emblem, advertising key technologies, today we introduce the next personalized jersey in different positions to use different technologies.
INTRODUCTION
At present, the mainstream jerseys mainly have the following positions with various types of printing technology, mainly focused on embroidery and heat transfer technology, the past few years flocking hot printing is also the mainstream, but in recent years has gradually been abandoned by major manufacturers.
1. Logo of jersey manufacturers, such as Nike and Adidas. Usually according to different versions of the jersey to embroidery, heat transfer technology based.
2. The team Logo, similar to the manufacturer's logo, is based on embroidery and heat transfer technology.
3. Shirt sponsor advertising, mainly in the chest, arms and behind the position, usually heat transfer technology.
4. Player names and numbers, flocked hot stamping is the mainstream in the past, and in recent years, it is basically heat transfer technology.
5. Race armband, flocking hot stamping, heat transfer technology.
6. Match information, embroidery and heat transfer technology.
Next, let's look at some of the characteristics of different technologies.
HEAT TRANSFER PRINTING
Heat transfer printing technology is the most widely used. In recent years, due to the limitations of flocking hot stamping, embroidery and other technologies at the competitive level, more and more teams have adopted heat transfer technology to print players' names, numbers and team badges to reduce the weight of jerseys. Common thermal transfer and sublimation technology is the most widely used. With the development of technology, silicone heat transfer printing technology has also appeared on our shirts in recent years.
The ordinary heat transfer technology printed on the surface of the jersey has a protruding feeling, but the surface of the printed content is usually smooth. Manchester City's 23-24 season home player version of PUMA Logo and team emblem are using heat transfer technology, bringing a relatively thin experience.
Heat transfer has also recently been applied to match information, the 2022-23 season of the FA Cup final, Manchester United and Manchester City match information are using heat transfer technology, the past Manchester United final match information is presented in the form of embroidery.
The Logo of the advertising sponsor is the most used scenario of heat transfer printing technology.
Silicone heat transfer printing technology has appeared on the players' version of the jersey in recent years, and the team emblem and shirt manufacturer's Logo appear in the form of silicone heat transfer printing on Nike and Adidas jerseys. The biggest difference between it and ordinary thermal transfer technology is that the surface of the printed content can show three-dimensional lines or patterns, making the whole jersey look more advanced. Paris 23-24 season appearance jersey, team emblem and Nike Logo all use this technology, we can clearly see in the team emblem and Logo surface texture.
Adidas player version of the jersey is similar, Adidas uses silicone heat transfer printing technology to simulate the embroidery of the sense of weave, full of details.
The armband is another position that has been replaced by heat transfer printing technology, and most of the armbands are currently converted to heat transfer printing technology . However, some competitions like UEFA, such as the Champions League and Europa League, still use the form of fabric armbands.
With the development of heat transfer printing materials and technology, more and more are applied to the whole jersey. At present, a player's version of the jersey is mostly printed with heat transfer printing technology, including the event armband, advertising, team emblem, number, name and other information, which brings the ultimate light and thin feeling to the jersey.
Embroidery
Compared with the early embroidery process, electronic embroidery technology can now be more realistic to restore the details on the team emblem. We see that the embroidering details of the 1999 Manchester United logo and the current embroidering team logo are clearly different.
The players' version of the jersey manufacturer's Logo also appears in the form of embroidery, and the match information also appears in the form of embroidery in the early years.
Flocked Fabric
Flocking technology is currently mainly used in competition armbands, most notably in the Champions League. Because flocking material is easy to absorb sweat and rain, players generally feedback poor experience, with the development of technology player printing and number in recent years have turned to heat transfer technology.
Others
A jersey also includes other details such as washing labels, such as some jersey certification information using woven label technology. These details actually reflect the design and craftsmanship of a jersey.
Summary
With the thermal transfer technology to provide a thinner material and more diverse effects, the future of the information on the jersey should be replaced by thermal transfer technology should only be a matter of time, but the current thermal transfer technology brings the biggest problem is the aging problem, for the collection of jerseys students need to pay special attention to how to maintain, to prevent the size, advertising and other content cracking aging.
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