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Vacuum Forming characters are a type of plastic processing technology. The main principle is to heat and soften the flat plastic hard sheet, then use vacuum to absorb it on the mold surface, and then cool it to form it. It is widely used in plastic packaging, lighting, advertising, decoration and other industries.
Vacuum Forming characters are also a type of luminous characters. The board surface is usually formed by Vacuum Forminging acrylic plates, and then combined with a base.
Vacuum Forming characters are also a type of luminous characters. The board surface is usually formed by Vacuum Forminging acrylic plates, and then combined with a base. LED lights or high-pressure lights are placed inside. The surface processes include flat surface, flat drum, ball drum, ridge drum, etc. The box materials include iron paint, aluminum profiles, stainless steel, titanium, etc. The color of the characters can be either a fixed color plate, a spot color or a four-color silk screen.
The material used for Vacuum Forming characters is acrylic sheet, which is also known as Acrylic. Its chemical name is methyl methacrylate, that is, high-purity organic glass sheet. The acrylic sheet made from it has a high surface finish and strong outdoor UV resistance. Generally, high-purity acrylic colored sheets will not fade when placed outdoors for 8-10 years. In the advertising production industry, it has become a high-quality advertising material due to its many advantages.
Since the birth of acrylic sheet in the United States in 1942, it has been widely used in all walks of life, and the advertising industry is no exception. It can be said that Vacuum Forming characters are produced by the emergence of acrylic, so Vacuum Forming characters are also called acrylic Vacuum Forming characters.
Since 2002, acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes have begun to emerge in the advertising industry.
Since 2005, the application and development of acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes have been very fast. Among them, the application of "McDonald's" and other shop signs Vacuum Forming light boxes has played a good demonstration role. The application of acrylic Vacuum Forming overall identification system in Sinopec gas stations and the Vacuum Forming light box display in the terminal stores of major mobile phone manufacturers have promoted the promotion of acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes while creating good advertising benefits for manufacturers. It can now be seen that acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes have become another new highlight in the advertising production industry after neon lights, inkjet printing, and engraving.
1. There is a lot of demand space in the market itself.
2. The Vacuum Forming characters are colorful, colorful, and durable. They have good effects during the day and at night, and have a strong visual impact. They are widely applicable, such as various shop signs, facades of enterprises and institutions, internal and external image walls, and large luminous characters on the roof.
3. Both acrylic light boxes and acrylic grooved luminous characters have flexible and diverse forms of expression, and can express the unique and personalized characteristics required by customers through creative design. Especially after the excessive proliferation of spray painting some time ago, the streets were full of light box cloths. Both the general public and professional customers are looking forward to high-end, personalized and fashionable, new advertising expression methods, and acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes adapt to or cater to this demand to a certain extent.
4. As an advertising production company itself, the production of acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes has a large profit margin in the industry, and the investment in acrylic production equipment of 70,000 to 80,000 to 100,000 yuan is relatively small.
The production of acrylic Vacuum Forming characters and light boxes requires mastering 4 key points and going through more than a dozen processes: The first is material selection. At present, the acrylic sheets seen in China are basically imported or produced by foreign joint ventures, and the quality of the sheets should be said to be good. The reason why the market price of acrylic Vacuum Forming light boxes is high is that the high price of sheets is one of the main factors. At present, the unit price of acrylic sheets in the market is generally 25-30 yuan/kg. Not only is the unit price high, but the utilization rate of the entire sheet in the production process is not high, resulting in a large cost amortization.
The second is mold making. Acrylic panels are formed by vacuum positioning and suction and pressure. Even if it is the same word, different sizes require different molds, and the mold making itself requires high precision and high quality. Because the precision and quality of the mold itself are directly related to the quality of acrylic products, and mold making has a high level of technology and requires experienced technicians. Therefore, as mentioned above, the current Vacuum Forming light boxes in the market have always been at a high price, and mold processing should be said to be the most important technology.
The third is post-production. As mentioned earlier, acrylic Vacuum Forming production is basically mechanized now. The application of some new equipment has greatly reduced the labor intensity of workers while improving production efficiency. After the acrylic Vacuum Forming material is basically formed, it must go through several processes such as milling, milling, and grinding. Finally, the light box is laid with light sources and the production is completed after baking.
The fourth is picture processing. According to the different needs of customers, the screen printing is directly used to transfer the picture to the acrylic sheet, and then vacuum suction and pressure molding is performed. There are characters, animals or product images in the picture, and they can be Vacuum Forminged into a three-dimensional effect, so as to obtain a better publicity effect.
Manual Vacuum Forming technology is a simple method that can produce words with Vacuum Forming effect without purchasing expensive engraving machines and Vacuum Forming machines.
Manual Vacuum Forming molds can be used for a long time. The molds for three-dimensional words in the advertising industry are only used once, so the cost and convenience of the mold are very important. The biggest feature of this process is that the mold cost is extremely low and it is easy to make. Even the mold can be made by sawing out the font with thick cardboard! The role of the mold is just to get the shape of the word. This technology can use acrylic sheets, and it is recommended to use modified thin sheets because they are light, crack-resistant, and have a wider range of applications.
This technology can use acrylic sheets on the market, with a thickness of 0.3-0.5 mm or any thickness. 0.3 sheets can be made into 1 square meter, and 0.5 sheets can be made into large characters of more than 2 meters! The surface protrusions can be flat convex, round convex, triangular convex (McDonald's), and the Vacuum Forming machine needs to make the same mold to produce the above shapes, and it must be polished smooth, which is very costly.
This technology can theoretically produce hundreds of colors! It can also produce gold, silver, wood grain, multi-color gradient and other effects. It can be built-in light source to make luminous characters, or it can be glued to the surface of buildings and inkjet light boxes to improve the grade of inkjet products.
This process does not require any engraving machine, milling machine or the like. The mold material is cheap and easy to process. You only need a curved saw, and the finished three-dimensional characters can be trimmed with a knife or scissors. When making luminous characters, the side strips can be bonded with materials of the same color or different colors, completely avoiding the disadvantage that aluminum alloy strips cannot make small gaps. In addition, because the raised surface of the characters in this process reaches more than 5 cm, the side strips can be added or not according to the situation.
In the general advertising industry, the quotation for plastic characters is roughly similar to that of metal characters, titanium characters, etc., that is, it is calculated based on the longest horizontal or vertical side of the character. If it is less than 1 meter, the quotation is per centimeter, and if it is more than 1 meter, the quotation is per square meter.
The quotation for plastic light boxes is the same as that for plastic characters, but you need to pay attention to whether it is single-sided or double-sided.
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