So, you want to make pin badges? |
Posted: November 29, 2021 |
Sounds complicated, but I promise, you only need to know which one is right for your project, and I am here to take you through this process. Let's start from the beginning! Here is a video we made showing one of the processes Soft Enamel Our most popular product, with its soft enamel. These can be made of a variety of materials depending on the style you want to make. I do not want to confuse the process too much, but 99% of the time, you will not need to know your PIN code, and we do not usually guarantee it, unless the customer asks directly. • Copper - simple designs, no cuts • Iron - a more complex design, one or two small cuts in construction • Zinc Alloy - Complex designs, with cut features, angular shapes and additional details. Also, the above information is a bit trivial, but people are curious, and I believe in giving people a lot of information. The same tools and process are available in Hard Enamel as well. So what is a soft pin badges on its cover? Great question! When the badge is formed, and removed from the skin, it has a raised frame, the coating of its coating stays inside the recessed ones, and the frame is raised. This provides 3D depth to the object, and is usually best for cartoon style designs, fine logo work and text-based designs that match the suggested edges, and applied paint. So, you made the design, how does the process work? I will use my works of art as an example to give you an idea of ??how it will work from design, to application, to final product. This is my logo, which we will turn into a pin badge:
Now as you can see, its circular logo, with a blue background, was originally created as a CMYK print logo, with gold text. To make this work like a pin badge, each color, you have to stay in the frame - this frame is a raised metal. In the logo above, I wanted the text raised metal, so that I could show how each style looks with a raised metal. So the factory will give us a visual image, of the logo designed above, with the right frame in place (you can give your artwork already displayed if you like) and they will make it with a few planks to give you an idea.
We use pantone as the color palette for its enamel pegs, as this is the world's most widely accepted color scheme for material. We will change the color of the panton very close to you, but we recommend that you double check for clarity.
This is a soft pin badge dye. Black dye can be colored in any Pantone color you wish, making your frame a different color is always a good example. Solid Coating So, an expert on its soft crust, what about firmness? It's all about popularity and art style, if you have a design where you would like dark drawings, and a cartoon / simple look, custom solid foil pins won't work for you, you can have a dyed metal with a soft cover. However, with its strong crust, it has a premium finish over it. An object is shaped in the same way, put together in the same way, but the difference is the only thing. Its solid crust is flat, with no raised frame, everything is completely flat.
Solid crust can be applied to any color, which is the color of the metal: • Rose Gold • Copper • Copper • Gold • Silver • Black Nickel The difference with hard vs soft crust, is that the thickness of the hardened pin can be similar to that of its soft crust, but with one difference, that if the hard pin is polished flat, this can cause some lines to thicken, making it look a little thicker than the original design, so this is to be considered when designing your artwork, anything with fine lines less than .5mm will bleed and will be larger than originally expected. This is not a problem with soft enamel.
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