A lot of people today are trying to separate themselves and make themselves unique from the conventional way of printing pictures in paper and in canvas. Even with the many developments and enhancements of picture printing, it may be to hard for people to get out of the traditional way of printing pictures, unless they come up with something really ground breaking. With all the advancements going and the improvement of the printing technology nowadays, people can now choose to have their images printed on a metallic sheet. If you are planning on having your images printed on metallic sheets of paper then its best to read on with this article to help you with the things that you have to think about first.
There are UV cured printers that allow printing into flat substrates like acrylic prints. The price might be too expensive for this kind of printing technology and it produces conflicting results which depends on the machine and generation of the printer. A lot of people may not afford the new machines today and this machines has the ability to produce amazing and great pictures but the drawback is its price, not all people seem to afford buying this one.
Another option available is the dye sublimation. Dye sublimation is otherwise known as dye sub. The dye sub is a process of having the image printed into a thermal transfer paper and then the image is placed into the metal using a hot plate. There is also a drawback to this kind of technology, no matter how the results are very great, it would still not be great about this at all. You are required to have the metal covered in a thermal receptive chemical, and whenever this is available in cities, people go right to it to buy it.
The next method that should be tackled in this article is another way to print images onto the metal. Epson printers have the ability to take flat media and print pictures into the metal sheet and coating the metal with an ink receptive chemical. This process is the most highest resolution it can give, however using water based inks and coatings can be really tricky sometimes. This method is able to generate amazing metallic printed results, however there is a drawback to this, after the print you still have to coat it with a solvent based protective coating so that the prints are seal and it wont leak out. The method of applying the coating to seal the ink can be really difficult, but if you have good and steady hands along with a good working environment, then surely you can pull it off well like the results of photos on acrylic.
Pictures On Metal 