We often see huge advertisements on buses and personalized and fashionable patterns on cars, which are all manifestations of car sticker applications. More and more young car owners like to show their personality and temperament through various creative and personalized car stickers. In addition to beautifying the car, alerting others and expressing personality, car stickers can also protect the paint surface and cover scratches. In addition, if the car stickers are made of reflective materials, the car stickers will improve driving safety at night.

Characteristics of Car Sticker Material

Car stickers are a kind of advertising material. They are special materials for posters, pictures or texts and other advertising materials to be pasted on cars. The biggest advantage of car stickers is that when the car body stickers are pasted on the surface of the car, it is easy to tear off and replace in the future, and no glue pollutants will be left.

Since the car body stickers are beautification decorations attached to the surface of the vehicle, they need to be used outdoors and withstand wind and sun, so the car stickers must have durability functions such as waterproof, sunscreen, not easy to fade, and no glue left after tearing. Therefore, the materials usually used for car stickers are PVC or PET.

1. Introduction to PVC Car Stickers
PVC car stickers have good flexibility, shrinkage and opacity, strong chemical corrosion resistance, good electrical insulation, low price, wide material source, good airtightness, very good weather resistance and excellent geometric stability, very suitable for long-term outdoor use.

2. Introduction to PET Car Stickers
PET car stickers have better high temperature resistance than PVC materials. Under high temperature and high frequency, its electrical insulation performance is still good. It has excellent physical and mechanical properties in a wide temperature range, excellent electrical insulation, weather resistance, chemical resistance stability, friction resistance, and dimensional stability. PET car stickers are also very suitable for outdoor use, and the cost is higher than PVC materials.

Car Sticker Inkjet Printing Solutions

Above, we have analyzed the characteristics of car sticker materials in detail. According to the car sticker materials, we can select different car stickers inkjet printing solutions. Dye ink can print PVC material, but car stickers are used outdoors for a long time, and require good waterproof and weather resistance. Dye ink is not waterproof and has poor weather resistance. Therefore, we need to use pigment eco solvent ink or UV ink or latex ink to print car stickers.

1. Eco-solvent Ink Printing Solution
Eco solvent ink for printing car stickers is still a relatively mature solution on the market. Eco solvent ink has bright and rich colors, realistic printing effects, a wide color gamut and excellent color expression. It has good adhesion, quick drying, waterproof, wear-resistant and not easy to fade when printed on car stickers. Eco solvent ink is mature and low-priced. Compared with UV printing, the eco solvent inkjet printing solution for printing car stickers has obvious cost-effectiveness advantages.

2. UV Ink Printing Solution
UV ink has a very wide media adaptability and is known as a universal ink. UV ink has all the advantages of the eco solvent ink, and UV ink can print some beautiful relief effects because it can be used with white ink. In terms of meeting personalized pattern requirements, UV inkjet solutions have more advantages. However, due to the high price of UV ink, the overall UV printing solution cost is higher than that of eco solvent ink solution.

3. Latex Ink Printing Solution
* The latex ink car sticker printing solution includes latex printer, latex ink and patented dryer, uses unique OP ink, combined with special color and white inks, and can print on many uncoated medias.
* The printing area does not need to be heated or radiated to dry, which better protects the safety of materials and print heads.
Applicable medias: PVC, PET, leather, deep PU, shallow PU, PP, coated paper, kraft paper, non-woven fabric, etc.
* Finished product of the latex car sticker printer has high color fastness to wet and dry friction and sunlight, and stretch resistance, bending resistance, high temperature resistance, freezing resistance, alcohol, acetone, acid and alkali resistance.
JETALL® series water-based environmentally friendly latex inks meet the international VOC emission requirements, meeting the printing requirements of various materials, and it also takes into account the safety of the production environment and product application environment.
The latex ink does not have the pungent smell of UV ink, nor the corrosiveness of weak solvent ink, so the printed products are odorless, non-corrosive, and non-volatile, meeting the needs of environmental protection.

Conclusion
Eco solvent ink printing solution, UV ink printing solution, and environmentally friendly latex ink printing solution are all replacing the traditional screen printing process. As the inkjet printing solution matures and the cost decreases, more traditional market share will be replaced by the digital printing solution. This is the charm of digital printing!