What are custom phone skins?

The custom phone skins refer to a thin layer of film which sticks to the surface of the mobile phone, for the purpose of decoration as well asprotect the phone from scratching. The most commonly used material for the custom phone skins are vinyl films, which is no harm to humans and environmental protection. For good quality vinyl films that stick to the mobile phone, they can be easily removed manually without leaving any residue on the cover. Also, good quality custom skins for mobile phone are good for heat dissipating when the mobile phone cover becomes hot due to the mobile phone’s CUP occupation is high such as when watching movies or playing games on the smartphone.

Generally speaking, there are 2 different types of custom phone skins.One is the printed phone skins with custom design picture. Another one is directly cut by special texture films without printing.

For the printed custom skins, usually people like to print personal photo or group photo to make it personalized. DAQIN provide high quality white printing design films that can be directly printed by 6 colors inkjet printer. The printing design films from DAQIN are very special. As you know, ordinary vinyl films can’t be printed by inkjet printer while DAQIN managed to do it. The ink for 6 colors inkjet printer are dye ink, which has high quality printing effect and the cost for each printing is comparatively low.

After printed, the film needs to be laminate with a thin layer of lamination effect film in order to become water proof and add special textures such as leather, gridding, twill, 3D water drops, glossy, matte, flash-matte, ice-flower…etc.It’s cold lamination, no need of turn on heat during the lamination process. DAQIN provide 4 rollers laminator which can effectively avoid bubble. Still, it needs several times of practicing before you become familiar with the operation of laminating.

After lamination, it’s time to cut the film into custom phone skins with DAQIN’s phone skin software and cutter. Any brand and model of mobile phone is OK! In less than 30 seconds, the cutting process will be completed and we can take the film out of the cutter and then pear off the sticker from the backing paper of the film.

At last, we can manually apply the custom skins on mobile phone for your customers. Or, we can ship the end product of custom phone skins to the customer who buy it in your online store.

For the production of the special texture custom skins for smartphones, it’s easier and faster than printed custom skins. By selecting mobile phone brand and models and put the special texture film into the cutter, and then click cut button in the software it will start cutting the film into your custom phone skins.