Lapel Pins – Wikipedia

For a lapel pin collection, or owners, a certain amount of lapel pins process knowledge is essential.
Many people do not know a clear imitation enamel pins and soft enamel, here we introduce.
First, use of raw materials
Enamel can do with copper raw materials, paint can choose copper, iron, aluminum can material; raw materials used are not the same color, imitation enamel is a kind of paste, paint is paint, and their ratioconcentration are not the same

Second, the manufacturing process

Enamel is the first color, bake, and then polishing, electroplating; baking process is the first polishing, plating, and then painted, baked
Oven temperature is not the same

Three, finished surface

Imitation enamel surface is flat and smooth, paint is uneven, the color part of the depression, the metal lines or metal surface uplift; imitation enamel lapel pin logo or text, and color is basically in the same plane, with your fingers will feel slightly raised, butThis emblem of the rough feeling of baking significantly different.
Here to remind that the baking lapel pin will be added after Polly was smooth, but there are tips you can tell the difference and will increase over Poly in the light refraction, reflection of feeling

Fourth, the price 
Enamel lapel pins are more senior lapel pin, lapel pin paint your price comparison.
Use of materials under different lapel pins paint different prices, such as iron lapel pin paint a very affordable price, many people choose to be

  Different kind of lapel pin  use different materials , of course it has different ways to protect.after all,currently  the Epoxy and die struck lapel pins is still popular , here are some tips to use and maintain:
  1, Imitation enamel is easily contaminated, and  the stain is difficult to clean after! First of all, do not let our lapel pins contaminated, and the second it is taboo to use brush cleaning.
  2, Imitation enamel are tough plastic materials, we must prevent the exposure and long-term environment in the sunshine .
  3,Most of thin die struck lapel pins is tin-based, so if inadequate protection, It is very easy to deformation, deformation can not be used once, so we must avoid collisions.
  4, die struck lapel pins also can not be cleaned with brushes, layers can easily be washed off 
  5, we shouldn’t   underestimate it on  the place of the environment, especially where it is easy to oxidation.
   These are some tips, if usually note that the words and you could well protect the lapel pins of the shape and color, so timeless.

Key chain is the most common custom lapel pins in our lives a little jewelry, people can usually be purchased at the store to finished key chain, key chain that is already good design. According to the production of different materials can be divided into the following categories:
1. Brass key chain

2. Iron key chain

3. PVC key chain products

4. Zinc alloy die casting  key chain

 5. . Acrylic key chain products
Key role in a wide range, the first time that people put it together as a decorative keychain, and if lost the key would be better to find some. For example，a heart-shaped separated into two small fragments, which formed by the two a heart-shaped key chain, couples will wear them.
Many schools are now graduating from nostalgia, company anniversary celebrations, and corporate gifts and so you want to custom key chain, but do not know how to customize. Is very simple, you provide your key ring, sketches, lapel pin factory will help you design and order to the key chain you want. Recommend the best choice of metal key ring. As a general model of metal key chain material costs are relatively cheap, suitable for a small number of products ordered. This metal keychain in the production process is the best imitation enamel process. If you like Ao Tugan strong results, you can select the paint process. . If it is used for tourist souvenir key chain, you can select printing technology key chain, because the printing process can be the same as taking pictures, the beautiful tourist attractions in the key chain printing surface can be completely re tourist attractions, as a souvenir.

The more inmportant is you choose good lapel pin manufacturer.

Custom lapel pins are useful for raising social awareness and understanding of business performance, And it often trading in minor league baseball and softball games . A little pin have a variety of different styles at the material, price, color, craft , but be sure will use it in many places.
The pin is a high quality cloisonné pin. According to this type of pin designs to produce the first mold, out of rough metal, enamel powder particle material filled cavities, baked at high temperatures to ensure that colors do not penetrate each other, the final manual polishing and electroplating. As the complexity of the production process, so cloisonné pin is the most expensive type of pin for the business community, it is highly collectible, with very little in the sports world.
Imitation enamel’s surface looks like the cloisonné, but it is more affordable alternative, the production is carried out with the imitation enamel color paste into color. Produced imitation enamel , you can add a layer of its surface, transparent resin, that is epoxy, to protect the patterns and colors, and more durable. Such pin  is often used in sport. 
Soft enamel is die stamping out metal material blank, and then one by one by hand coloring, (Pantone color). These pins are very bright colors, the surface is uneven. 
Photo etched production system in the single-plate (making film negatives) in the corrosion solution in the corrosion of the metal plate designs, this article is made by fine metal wire, add epoxy on the surface to improve the pin durability.
Print pins  is a gradient for some, there is a shadow of complex patterns, like patterns, like a photo printed directly up fine, so this type of pin is very bright and clean smooth surface. Such pins are also proposes to add a layer of epoxy . 
Die struck is mold in stamping out the blank metal materials, no coloring, make it smooth and shiny plating, recesses for discharge, such as granulated matte effect.

imitation enamel and Cloisonne

• Meterials: copper for cloisonne and imitation enamel use copper, bronze, iron and alloys.
• Imitation enamel is more colourful than clisonne.
• Cloisonne are colourful glas powders, imitation enamel are one of paints.
• The source of imitation enamel is more smooth than cliosonn’s
• Cloisonne has a little dome, but imitation enamel not.

imitation enamel and soft enamel

• Imitation enamel surface is smooth and flat, soft enamel pins has recessed and raised areas.
• In many cases, soft enamel will have a epoxy finish. it’s shining.

soft enamel and photo etched

• Lines would be more delicate for photo etched.
• Soft enamel pins have the recessed area with coloring.
• 1.2mm for soft enamel pins and 0.8mm for photo etched

die struck and soft enamel

• soft enamel has colors, but diestruck no, only the metal color(i.e., gold, silver).

printed pins with others

• The most significant difference is that a variety of colors or other lapel pins are the lines between the metal lines to separate the printed pins does not require any metal lines, the same directly with the printing products can be directly printed.