Badge making: the difference between genuine gold and imitation gold!

Badge making: the difference between genuine gold and imitation gold!

Gold plating and imitation gold plating are also called imitation gold plating and imitation gold plating. It is very common in the production of various badges and custom Gold 3D Badges Emblem, often giving people a sense of taste, and its general use is real gold plating or imitation gold plating. Because of the bright colors and strong metal texture of "gold" color, it gives people a very noble feeling, so it greatly improves the ornamental value of products and commodity value. Today, we will briefly analyze the two processes of gold plating and imitation gold plating.

With the improvement of electroplating technology, there is little difference between imitation gold plating and real gold plating in terms of surface effect.

First of all, what is gold plating?

As the name suggests, plating is the surface plating of real gold, including electroplating can be divided into 18K gold,20K gold,24K gold plating, in which 18K and 24K used more. The surface treatment can be made into bright gold and (highlights) and dumb gold (pearl gold) effects. Gold plating has bright color, strong metal feeling, not easy to be oxidized, color retention time is long, looks like real gold like noble, but, the cost of gold plating is much higher than the cost of imitation gold, care about the cost, you can choose imitation gold plating.

What is imitation gold?

The use of imitation gold is not real Gold 3D Badges Emblem but similar to the color of real gold, currently commonly used layer of imitation gold is based on brass plating solution, imitation gold color to 18K is the majority, this is copper and zinc dual alloy, most consumers like this color, in imitation gold is the most common. Some add a third metal element to change the tone. Imitation gold coating is mostly alloy coating namely copper zinc alloy, and the third metal element is mostly tin. Imitation gold surface treatment can also be made into bright gold and (highlights) and dumb gold (pearl gold) effect. The color of imitate gold is approximate true gold, the aureate appearance with pleasing to the eye often makes a person feel gorgeous, used this kind of imitate gold to electroplate craft in many fields at present, it not only raised the appreciation of the product, and raised the commodity value of the product greatly.

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The difference between genuine gold and imitation gold

In terms of texture, the texture of real gold to be stronger, especially the metal texture, although the imitation of gold in color can be done very close, but you will feel more or less plastic sense, the metal texture is relatively poor. From the perspective of durability, the real gold plating is not easy to be oxidized, and the storage time is very long. In the production of high-grade badges or MEDALS, the real gold plating process is often used, while the imitation gold plating, compared with the real gold plating, is easy to be oxidized, and the retention time is relatively short. In addition, the cost of gold plating is much higher than imitation gold plating, so, more care about the price, and want to basically achieve the effect of gold plating, imitation gold plating will be the best choice.

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