When choosing a silk-screen pattern, how important is the role of the ceramic frit color?
The ceramic frit color plays a contributing role to a silk-screen pattern’s level of reflectivity, boldness or subtleness, and solar performance. In all cases, incorporating a silk-screen pattern to a glass make-up will increase the solar performance of the product vs. the same make-up without a silk-screen. A white ceramic frit is often used in applications desiring to create a bold pattern, that stand out more than a tinted ceramic frit, along with maintaining high levels of light. If the desire is to minimize the glass reflectance, then a tinted ceramic frit may be more appropriate offering a more subtle pattern while improving solar performance.
