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Pulished on Sep. 06, 2023
The decoration design decals for ceramic tableware refer to using the pasting method to move the colored patterns on the decal paper to the ceramic body or glaze It is also called "moving decals". It is the most widely used decorative technique and can be divided into on-glaze, in-glaze and under-glaze.
The decorative paper used as the material is a special screen printing paper specially used for porcelain.
It needs to be fired in the kiln. There is one firing and two firings before it can be turned into a usable finished ceramic product.
The underglaze and underglaze will never change color, and the overglaze will remain unchanged for more than ten years.
From traditional hand-painted to decal paper, decoration methods have changed from low-end to high-end, from single to diverse.
Decorative decal paper, as the outer covering of daily-use ceramic tableware products, has become the most important means of decoration for daily-use porcelain.
Since decal paper is the simplest, fastest, and most efficient way to decorate daily ceramics, it not only has the advantages of exquisite prints, a wide range of colors, and good luminosity.
At the same time, it can also print a variety of designs and is suitable for daily ceramic tableware of various shapes and specifications.
It has become the most widely used decoration method for daily ceramic decoration.
According to the different barbecue temperatures after reposting, the decals can be divided into high-temperature decals and low-temperature decals.
The main component of low-temperature decorative paper is ink material.
The color material of low-temperature decorative paper dries slowly during production, and it takes enough time to completely dry before proceeding to the second process.
The firing temperature of low-temperature decorative paper is 120°C-180 °C. The low-temperature decorative paper is affordable, colorful, and versatile, has good gloss, strong 3D effect, anti-corrosion, and is environmentally friendly, but has weak adhesion.
High-temperature decorative paper is divided into over-glaze, mid-glaze, and under-glaze.
The firing temperature of over-glazed decorative paper is about 780 °C. The firing temperature of mid-glaze and under-glaze decorative paper is 1250°C-1380 °C.
High-temperature decorative paper has good wear resistance and will not fall off or fade when left for a long time.
It has strong adhesion. However, its price is higher than that of low-temperature decorative paper, and it is prone to explosions and other phenomena.
It is difficult to control the temperature, and sometimes the temperature will change according to different conditions. Color to choose different temperatures.
Especially for decals with gold, if the temperature is too high, it will easily burn black and change color; if the temperature is too low, the color will not be bright enough and become dark.
There are many ways to decorate daily ceramic flower paper. Different regions and different daily ceramic vessels have different decoration methods.
Taking flowers as an example, the current popular decoration methods in the market mainly include the following:
Side flowers mostly adopt the method of continuous two-sided and repeated arrangement of separate patterns.
The decorative parts of flowers on daily porcelain tableware vary depending on the type of product.
The most common parts are decorated with three-dimensional vessels (pots, cups, etc.)
are near the mouth and shoulders of the ceramic tableware; some are decorated on the body.
The waist and lower part, but the lower part is less common; some only decorate the waist of the vessel with a wide theme border.
Border decoration is the most popular form of decoration on sets, and it is also common to decorate individual vessels.
The decorative expression technique of combining border flowers and flowers is the same as that of border flowers and flowers.
This form of decoration often uses geometric patterns near the mouth or shoulders of the vessel. Or pick small flowers individually to form a border flower,
and decorate the waist or center of the vessel with one or several flowers in the form of picked branches.
For example, cups are decorated with a border of flowers near the mouth, and flowers are decorated on the front and back of the waist.
The discs are decorated with a side flower near the mouth, three or five flowers of the same shape and number on the waist, or one large flower or a single pattern in the center.
At present, this form of decoration is used in complete sets and single pieces of daily-use porcelain decals.
The decorative expression technique of combining border flowers and flowers is the same as that of border flowers and flowers.
This form of decoration often uses geometric patterns near the mouth or shoulders of the vessel.
Or pick small flowers individually to form a border flower, and decorate the waist or center of the vessel with one or several flowers in the form of picked branches.
For example, cups are decorated with a border of flowers near the mouth, and flowers are decorated on the front and back of the waist.
The discs are decorated with a side flower near the mouth, three or five flowers of the same shape and number on the waist, or one large flower or a single pattern in the center.
At present, this form of decoration is used in complete sets and single pieces of daily-use porcelain decals.
As the name suggests, full flower decoration is to cover the utensils with patterns.
Full flowers are decorated on the main body of daily-use porcelain vessels, which is more difficult to produce and operate than single flowers and side flowers.
Most of them are suitable for decoration on complete sets of tea sets, coffee sets, cups saucers, and plates with straight lines.The utensils with large curved lines are not suitable for decoration with flowers.
It is also the most popular decoration method for porcelain tableware in the market in recent years.
It is characterized by the use of various small flowers and plants of different sizes scattered, sparse, loose, and irregular on the ceramic tableware.
The layout appears free, lively, and relaxed. The designs for the flower decals are the same, but the others are different.
These small flowers picked from branches are also expressed in the same way as flowers.
Scattered decoration is more difficult and time-consuming to operate during adding decal papers.
And the production efficiency is low because the specifications for the decal are not easy to unify.
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