Why POLYTECH is the inventor of DTF
Since DTF has been widely accepted around the world, how many Chinese companies and even Korean companies have claimed to be the inventors of DTF, although almost none of the DTF providers with greater influence in the early days did not purchase products from POLYTECH for sale.
At this time, you will ask a question: How to prove that POLYTECH is not also lying? So let’s talk about why POLYTECH is the inventor of DTF.
To make the answer clear, we need to trace the development history of DTF back to the development history of POLYTECH: Shenzhen POLYTECH Material Technology Co., Ltd. was established at the end of 2016 by an elite team from the United States, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. The company has gathered talents from various majors in chemistry, materials, machinery, textiles and business management, and started the company's innovation path with water-based coating inks for digital printing.
In 2016, the application of water-based coating inks was quite limited. POLYTECH worked hard to promote the patented water-based latex ink, but with little success. The immaturity and limited scale of the market prompted the POLYTECH team to create the first domestic water-based printing and cutting film: by compounding the white, soft and environmentally friendly PU film and adhesive film, and further coating it with POLYTECH's own water-based coating, it perfectly matches POLYTECH's excellent performance The water-based latex ink, combined with the Epson 3280 printer and the Tuwang cutting plotter, formed a unique domestic water-based environmentally friendly printing and cutting film. We became the white POLYTECH solution. Once launched, white POLYTECH has received a lot of attention in the market. The high quality of the printed products has won the adoption of the well-known brands of LYCRA Sport and fashion brand Zhang Dayi.
The logo of LYCRA Sport is eye-catching and prominent, and the simplicity of the design itself also makes the high-quality, efficient and perfect display of white POLYTECH; but if you look at the many colors, many shapes, and many detailed printing patterns of the Zhang Dayi brand, such a Piece printing has extremely high requirements for the color, positioning, covering power, softness and fastness of the printed pattern itself. Secondly, it also has extremely high requirements for the entire processing technology of the white POLYTECH water-based cutting film itself. Even the perfect cutability and easy waste removal of white POLYTECH film has caused many processing problems for manufacturers: a huge amount of manual labor means long delivery times and a defective rate that is difficult to perfectly control. Despite many difficulties, the order was successfully delivered by then. On the one hand, it gave the POLYTECH team great confidence and recognition of the POLYTECH solution. It also allowed us to see the obvious weaknesses of the cutting film solution: too many processing steps and labor consumption. Too large to fulfill high-volume, high-quality, repetitive orders.
At this time, the innovators in the POLYTECH team stood up again: how to meet the needs of customers, truly change the pain points of the industry, and create value for customers, we need innovation!
The result of our constant thinking and action is: in 2018, a transparent PET film that changed the industry was born. We call it "Easy POLYTECH". As the name suggests, the whole process is very simple and convenient! You only need to use an Epson3480 printer to print POLYTECH water-based latex ink onto our easy POLYTECH film, then sprinkle hot melt powder on the ink that has not yet dried, and after a few minutes of baking, you can get a beautiful printed piece. The whole process is simple and fast , no defective products. The picture below is not so beautiful, but it is very real. This is an order from a customer at that time. In just a few dozen minutes, the order that originally took hours or even days to complete was successfully completed.
The most important thing is, such exquisite details, such soft feel, and the fastness to be washed fifty times at a water temperature of 30 degrees!
An epoch-making printing process was born, born in POLYTECH.
At this time, a new problem emerged. When customers were producing larger batches, the powdering process was entirely manual and mass production could not be achieved, and the oven could not achieve true industrial production. At this time, the POLYTECH team stepped forward again. We invented the first powder dusting and drying machine in the DTF industry and obtained a national patent.
The picture below is our first prototype, we called it Li-generation: DTF1. It is the perfect combination of Epson3480 printer and POLYTECH patented dusting machine, which truly realizes digital printing of DTF film, dusting, and drying of full.
