How to Make The Color Gradient Tempered or Laminated Glass?

Gradient Glass is part of privacy glass, applied in shower doors, conference rooms, glass partitions to protect users’ privacy.

The colors and patterns according to your requirement, white, frosted, blue, orange, etc.

The float glass is based on clear or low iron tempered or annealed glass.

Here we introduce 5 methods to produce the gradient tempered or laminated glass

1. Silk Screen Printed Gradient Glass

Low costs, compared with normal clear tempered glass, the extra costs are just USD5-7/SQM silkscreen, screen plates, and labor fees.

Glass can be applied to both interiors and exteriors, the screen dots are combined with glass permanently on glass, no fading, no fall off, the inks and prints are the same lifetimes as the glass itself.

The silkscreen gradient glass now is the perfect low costs option for customers.

We can custom any design based on your’s requirements.

2. Digitally Gradient Printed Glass

Digitally printing glass is a new technology, the world-famous machine brands-Dip-tech from Israel offers unlimited glass imaginations for world architects and designers.

Besides Dip-tech, many China machine manufacturers also developed similar function high-temperature printing solutions, glass factories can print whatever patterns they want on the glass surface to make achieve a unique glass appearance.

Gradient glass produced with a digital printing machine is much better than the silkscreen printed process.

1. Low production efficiency.

Because of the limitation of the machine capacity, the daily output of digitally printed glass is 100-200 sqm per day.

2. High cost.

As the huge machine investment and low production efficiency, the unit price of digitally printed glass is several times higher than that of silkscreen glass. Unit printing costs are USD30-40/SQM.

3. UV Printed Gradient Glass

UV-printed glass is only recommended in interior decoration.

Different from high temperature digitally printed glass, UV printed glass is low temperature digitally printing on glass.

The printing process must be on the post-tempered glass.

The cost is much lower than digitally printed glass, the 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 outdoors.

4. Gradient PET Film EVA Laminated Glass

The Gradient PET Film EVA Laminated Glass also is only recommended in interior decoration.

Gradient laminated glass now is the most popular and most widely used glass in the interior 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 melted and combined PET film with glass.

Compared with monolithic glass, laminated glass safety is much higher.

1. High price, compared with Single piece glass, laminated glass price is 2-3 times that of monolithic gradient glass.

2. The glass can only be used in interiors.EVA interlayer has high fluidity, once the temperature increase, EVA film will be melt, bonding strength will decrease significantly.

3. The gradient sizes and regulations are fixed, customers cannot customize their unique patterns if the quantity is small.

5. Paste the Gradient Films to achieve the Gradient Glass

The gradient film can be stuck directly on the glass surface without replacing the glass.

The PET film thickness varies from 0.3um to 2mm, have many options to select, whether it’s pure white, translucent, the patterns are also flexible and you can decide whatever patterns they want.

With the above introduction, we can get below conclusion:

1. Silk screen gradient glass has the best price and cost performance for both exterior and interior applications.

2. Gradient PET film EVA laminated glass is recommended for high safety interior applications.

3. Digitally printed glass and UV printed glass are not suggested to produce gradient glass, if customers have complex color and pattern requirements, digitally printed glass can be used in the outdoor application and UV printed laminated glass for interior decoration is proposed.

4. Gradient PET films stick directly on glass is the perfect solution to change your glass style.

Eliter Glass, we manufacture and supply all kinds of gradient glass for your shower door, glass partition, and even facade glass requirement…

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