Gradient glass,is part of privacy glass,applied in shower doors,conference rooms,glass partitions to protect users’ privacy,the gradient glass also decorate your office or house,here we introduce 5 methods to produce gradient glass,their advantages and disadvantages during production.including silk screen,digitally printed glass,UV printed glass,PET film EVA laminated glass,and gradient films.
gradient glass-glass show-China Morn
Silk screen glass
For most glass factories, silk screen glass can only print dots or small squares from bigger to smaller ones to create the gradient effect.
silk screen-gradient effect with dots
Advantage:
A.Low costs, compared with normal clear tempered glass,the extra costs is just USD6-8/SQM silk screen fees.
B.Easy production,silk screen,or ceramic fritproduction is easy.
C.Monolithic glass can be applied both interiors and exteriors,the screen dots is combined with glass permanently on glass,no fading,the inks and prints are same lifetime as glass itself.
The printed dots or squares are not big enough,small printing coverage cannot protect the privacy very well,there’s still large transparent areas.
MORN with with hundreds glass manufacturers in China ,luckily we create a new method to produce the pure gradient glass with silk screen process,the silk screen gradient glass now is the perfect low costs option for customers ,meanwhile we can custom any design based on customer’s requirement.
silk screen gradient glass–China Morn
Digitally printed glass
Digitally printing glass is new technology,the world famous machine brands-Dip-tech from Israel offer unlimited glass imaginations for world architects and designers.
Beside Dip-tech,many China machine manufacturers also developed similar function high temperature printing solutions,glass factories can print whatever patterns they want on glass surface to make achieve the unique glass appearance.
DIPTECH-DIGITAL-PRINTING-LINE-Morn
Gradient glass produced with digital printing machine is much better than silk screen process.but it has many disadvantages:
A.Low production efficiency. Because of the limitation of machine,the daily output of digitally printed glass is 100-200 sqm per day.
B.High cost.As the huge machine investment and low production efficiency,unit price of digitally printed glass is several times higher than that of silk screen glass.Unit printing costs is USD30-50/SQM.
gradient glass made with digitally printed line
Morn don’t suggest to use digitally printed glass for your gradient glass requirement,instead if complex patterns of images are wanted on glass,digitally printing is perfect.
Gradient PET laminated glass
Gradient laminated glass now is the most popular and most widely used glass in the market now.It’s a kind of EVA laminated glass with a gradient PET film laminated inside.
The gradient effect is achieved by the PET films,during the laminating process,EVA film is melt and combine the PET film with glass.
Advantages:
A.Mature technology. EVA ,PVB,SGP laminated glass are currently 3 main laminated glass types,the EVA laminated glass production technology is quite mature ,quality can be ensured.
B.Compared with monolithic glass,laminated glass safety is much higher,it can also block UV and prevent furniture,cloth fading after years lighting.
Disadvantages:
A.High price,compared with monolithic glass,laminated glass price is always 2-3 times that of monolithic gradient glass.
B.The glass can only been used interiors.EVA interlayerhas high fluidity,once the temperature increase,EVA film will be melt,bonding strength will decrease significantly.Even though EVA film that is suitable for outdoor application is developed,its performance is still far away from PVB interlayer.
eva laminated glass production-MORN
C.Limited specifications.The gradient sizes and regulations are fixed,customers cannot customize their unique patterns if the quantity is small.
4.UV printed glass
Different from high temperature digitally printed glass ,UV printed glass is low temperature digitally printing on glass.The printing process must be on post tempered glass.
The costs is much lower than digitally printed glass, printing effect is quite excellent and sometimes even better ,but as it’s low temperature,the color will fade with time,and cannot be used in outdoors.Meanwhile,as the color fastness is bad,it’s suggested to make the UV printed glass into laminated glass,thus overall costs is even higher than digitally printed glass.
The UV printed glass is only recommended in interior decoration.
Gradient film.
If you want to change already installed clear glass to have gradient effect,while replacing them is quite risky and expensive,gradient film is perfect and most simple option for you.
The gradient film can be stick directly on glass surface without replacing the glass.
gradient film color options-Morn
The PET film thickness varies from 0.3um to 2mm,customers has many options to select,whether it’s pure white ,translucent,the patterns are also flexible and customers can decide whatever patterns they want.Once the film is no longer useful,people can easily remove it and change to another pattern.
One more advantage of the film is,the company or shop logo can be engraved on the film and build reputation,the easy DIY installation also makes it preferred by most users.
Below video shows how easy to install the film.
The lifetime of the film are only 2-3 years,so customers will have to replace them..
With above introduction,the pro and inferiors of above 5 methods we can get below conclusion:
- Silk screen gradient glass has the best price and cost performance for both exterior and interior application.
- Gradient PET film EVA laminated glass is recommended for high safety interior applications.
- Digitally printed glass and UV printed glass are not suggested to produce gradient glass,if customers has complex color and pattern requirements, digitally printed glass can be used in outdoor application and UV printed laminated glass for interior decoration propose.
- Gradient PET films stick directly on glass is the perfect solution to change your glass style.
gradient glass doors to protect privacy
Morn offer complete gradient glass solution for our customers,we manufacture and supply all kinds of gradient glass for your shower door,glass partition,and even facade glass requirement.Share with us your glass requirement,your budget,we’ll help confirming the best solution for you.
