Unlike other films it is not made of metal nor is the film dyed to be a darker shade.
What is ceramic pigment made of.
And as we all know adding color to your ceramic art can be a tricky proposition.
They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments.
In general the same pigments are employed in oil and water based paints.
Pigments are insoluble and are applied not as solutions but as finely ground solid particles mixed with a liquid.
Instead the film is imbued with small ceramic based nanoparticles.
Ceramic paint uses ceramic beads that are so tiny they look like a finely ground powder when poured in your hand.
The development of inks is a highly controlled production process to remove any variability in the final product.
This means that this film is both non metal and does not conduct.
Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension.
The inks used in digital printing on glass mimic the cmyk color model and are made of ceramic frit and inorganic pigments and elements.
The thing that makes ceramic paint so special is the tiny ceramic spherical beads used as pigment extenders in the paint.
Traditional pigment extenders are made from organic materials such as clay talc and chalk.
Ceramic paint contains ceramic microspheres or beads and uses these ceramic beads as pigment extenders.
A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material.
Unlike working with paints the raw glaze you put on your prize pot or sculpture often looks completely different from the fired result.
The downside to using this type of paint is the jaggedness within the organic material which often results in a rougher finish.