Step 1: Print Image

Water transfer paper work on water-based inkjet printers, adjust the print settings to photo printing

Tips:

1. The pattern must be printed on the mirror side surface.

2. Print settings photo printing.

Step 2: Dry the ink

1. Dry naturally for about 3 to 10 minutes

2. Blow dry, about 10 to 30 seconds

3. Blow the entire pattern evenly

4. Put it in the oven and bake it dry,

5. Temperature 80 degrees Celsius, time 5 minutes.(Be careful of burns when applying the oven)

Notice: The temperature when the oven is just turned on will be higher than the set temperature, it needs to be preheated for 15 minutes, or use an industrial thermometer to measure the temperature before operating.

How do I know if the ink is dry?

It won\’t bleed if you touch the pattern with your hands

Step 3: Spray the gloss oil

1. The entire pattern must be covered with coat of the acrylic, and the gloss oil cover the pattern evenly .

2. After spraying the gloss oil, wait 1 minute for the coat of acrylic to level automatically, and dry the gloss oil

3. The pattern cannot be touched before the gloss oil is dry .

4. gloss oil selection, choose leveling and waterproof, the better the leveling, the more uniform the spraying.

Tips：

Under normal circumstances, a single spray of gloss oil can protect the pattern. In order to prevent uneven gloss oil, you can repeat spraying 1 to twice

Step4: Dry gloss oil

1. Dry naturally for 10-20 minutes

2. Blow dry with hot air blower, blow for about 10 seconds each time, check whether it is dry, if it is not dry, repeat for 10 seconds

It is prohibited to use the oven to dry

Tips:

Gloss oil should not be too dry, 90% dryness is the best

How to judge the dryness of gloss oil?

At the corners of the decal paper (non-pattern area), press it with your hand. If fingerprints appear or the coat of acrylic is damaged, the degree of drying is insufficient.

If you feel that the hardness is high, or you see cracks, the transfer cannot be continued, and it can be easily judged by actual operation.

The water transfer paper after spraying the varnish can be completed within 24 hours and cannot be stored for a long time

Step 5: Cut Out Image

Use scissors to cut out the pattern you want to create

Tips:

1. Decal regular patterns, regular patterns are easy to cut, and cut 0.5mm along the edge of the pattern.

2. When you decal some irregular patterns and it is not easy to cut the shape of the pattern, you can put the pattern on a regular background surface.Print out a regular pattern in this way, so that the edge of the map is aligned with the edge of the object.

For example, when create to a tray, first measure the diameter of the circle at the bottom of the tray, print the pattern size according to the size of the tray, and then cut it along the pattern.

Step 6: Soak In Water

Soaking time: 30 to 60 seconds

1. The transfer film and base paper begin to separate in about 30 seconds. The longer the soaking time, the more water will be absorbed and the greater the degree of separation.

2. Wet the surface to place the decal on for easier decal manuever and positioning.

Tips:

1. As soon as the pattern is put in the water, it will absorb moisture and produce a rolling effect, and will gradually flatten after absorbing moisture.

2. When the soaking time is too long, it will cause the transfer film to become very soft, and the pattern is easy to lose shape during the mapping process

3. The soaking time is too long, the complete separation of transfer film, the film is very soft easy to fold together, it is not convenient to flatten

Step7: Attach

Take out the soaked decal and place onto a desired surface with the image side facing up.

Tips:

1. The edges of the decal paper before separation must be aligned with the edges of the items that need to be attached. After aligning and determining the direction, start to pull out the base paper to avoid moving the pattern to a large extent to prevent the pattern from being deformed.

2. When the pattern is relatively large, the entire surface of the base paper needs to be drawn out evenly to avoid excessive twitching in a single direction and deformation of the transfer film when it is pulled.

Step8: Separate

1.When the pattern transfer is completed, there will be some slight wrinkles and moisture remaining.

You can use the detached base paper to fold in half, and fold in half 3 times to remove water and air bubbles from the center to the outside.

2. Because there is moisture on the transfer object, the transfer film pattern is also very slippery, and it is easy to deform the pattern, so you need to slightly press the pattern with your hand to slowly drain the moisture.

3. Finally, use a soft paper towel to dry the surface of the object

Step9: Dry

Bake:

Bake dry (bake for about 15 minutes, bake temperature 100-120 degrees)

2. For products that can\’t be put in the oven, you can use a hair dryer to dry, and leave it for about 3 days after drying to achieve the best adhesion.

3. Dry naturally, about 3 days

Tips

You can spray gloss oil once on the decal finished product to achieve the best protection effect

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