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As developing photos will have a variety of surface protection methods, such as plastic, cold mounting, hot film, lamination four, then you know how to choose the right way to protect photos?
Photo surface protection
Plastic sealing
Plastic photo is also known as overmolding, thermoplastic, that is, through the plastic sealing film will be sealed through the high temperature overmolding machine for thermoplastic protection of a technology, with waterproof, moisture, dust, anti-color fading, enhance the durability of the photo and keep the photo color and luster of the photo and other multiple advantages. Characterized by: hard texture, toughness and thickness of the photo after over-molding.
Cold Mounting
Cold mounting is a way of protecting photos by covering them with a layer of cold mounting film using cold mounting technology. The cold mounting technique protects the photo by covering the front of the photo with a layer of cold mounting film and leaving the back uncovered. This technique does not use heat, hence the name cold mounting. Cold mounting film is backed by a thin paper (film) with a layer of adhesive and a layer of adhesive guard, which is removed to adhere the cold mounting film to the photo.
“Advantages of Cold Mounting
Protect photos:
Cold mounting film can reduce the chances of photos being damaged and prevent them from being scratched, polluted or wet.
Maintain freshness:
photos mounted with cold mounting film can maintain the three-dimensionality and reduce fading and yellowing, thus maintaining the freshness of the photos.
Waterproof and anti-staining:
Cold laminating film has certain waterproof and anti-staining properties, which can protect photos from moisture and stains. Hot mounting
Hot laminating hot film photo is a technique of protecting and decorating photos by applying pre-coated film (a special film) to the front and back of the photos by heating with special equipment.
Principle: Hot mounting thermal film utilizes special equipment to heat the pre-coated film so that it is tightly bonded to the surface and back of the photo, thus achieving the purpose of protecting the photo.
Lamination
Photo lamination refers to a treatment that protects photos by means of a lamination process. The lamination process involves applying a special liquid evenly to the surface of the photo, which is then cured by ultraviolet light to form a protective film.
Applicable Scenarios of Plasticized Photos
Commonly, plastic-coated photos are mainly used in the following scenarios: group photo, group photo, family photo, baby record photo, important document photo, important document photo.
It can be seen that a lot of important and long-term preservation of photo data need to be protected by plastic sealing, so “your photos are also very important and want to be preserved for a long time, then it is recommended to plastic sealing”.
Scenarios for cold mounted photos
Due to the various texture styles of cold mounted photos, the cold mounting process is more often used in the following scenarios: artistic portraits, photographs, large-size photographs, framed photographs, and illustrations.
Cold mounting is more suitable for the surface protection of “art”, “photography”, “portraits”, “high quality photos”, and it is a more suitable way to protect photos for “framed photos”.
Applicable Scenarios of Photo Lamination
Lamination process uses a special liquid (usually a chemical liquid) to form a protective film on the surface of the photo, which can prevent the photo from moisture, stickiness, and abrasion, and at the same time increase the ability of the photo to prevent scratching and fading. So this kind of process is usually used in the following scenarios: photo shooting, photo menu, publicity photos, photo book production, photo album production.
How to distinguish between hot mounting and plastic sealing
As the process and principle of thermal lamination (thermal film) and plastic sealing process is almost the same principle, the only difference is that the thickness of the material applied to the surface is not the same, resulting in different bending resistance of the photo.
Currently on the market, many large enterprises have implemented fully automated sealing method, the use of such soft film materials (the reason is to facilitate the production, enhance the efficiency of the photo sealing), but this hot laminating out of the photo and plastic sealing compared to the photo will appear very soft, resulting in the photo can not be very good resistance to bending and abrasion resistance. [Second best
“How to identify the plastic or hot film, mainly to see the texture of the photo after the plastic, the overall toughness of the photo, the ability to resist bending two points!
What is cold mounting, plastic sealing, hot film, lamination?
Recommended scenarios for photo protection
Suggestions for avoiding the pit: how to correctly distinguish between plastic sealing and heat film
The above are four common ways to protect photos, but also explain to you how to distinguish between heat film and plastic sealing identification method, so that you do not step on the pit of online photo developing, I hope to get your likes / attention.
JinGe Technology
Jiangxi Jinge Technology Co.
