RAK Mulder Porcelain Pvt. Ltd.

RAK Porcelain is part of RAK Ceramics Group.RAK Porcelain was set up to produce high quality ceramic and porcelain and stoneware products. They deal in Transfers which are sticker like sheets for different purposes.These transfers are made and then stuck to the Porcelain or bone china to acheive prints or different colours and patterns on your surface.
RAK Porcelain imports their materials from Germany and U.K. Their whole process is automatic to ensure quakity of material, colour and shape.
Thus we see that there is a step by step way of putting a transfer onto the surface of a product like a ceramic plate or a mug.

1.Artists do the art work which are pictures drawn and then scanned, according to the need of the client
2.Once the print is finalised, they do colour separation, where positives are made according to the colours. Thus every colour in the design will have a positive.
3.The positives are given to the Pre-press section and exposed to a photographic film or screen on which you apply a photo sensory cappiliary film to which it is transferred.
4.Thus for each colour there are separate screens.
5.It is exposed to yellow light for about 4-5 minutes, for them to develop.
6.After the positive has been transferred on to the screen it is washed to obtain the negative where the part which is to be coloured remains white and the part which not to be coloured becomes black or red.It is washed so that the coloured area becomes soft for it to absorb colour.
7.The negative is then developed to obtain the sticker. The sticker is given a protective coating.
8.It can be transferred onto the required surface by wetting it. To ensure that it does not peel off, the surface is baked.

RAK Porcelain has another section where they print on tiles in the same process.
Thus it was a great experience seeing how this is done especially how the printing is done on tiles and then how the baking is done. It was a good learning experience.