In some niche markets 3D lenticular printing is the dominant production technique, but only to become a widely used method in manufacturing. There is need of further technological breakthroughs to drive down costs. But you will not find any sign of it happening soon.

Consisting of repeating rows of lenticules on the front surface of the material, lenticular lens is the piece of extruded plastic sheets. On the back side of the material, it has a flat surface. Based on the printing process it can have mounted preprinted graphic or get directly printed. Selecting the correct lens is as important as selecting a beautiful scene. Few materials are good for indoors and some for both.

Lenticular printing China is a specialized printing process which make use of a combination of specially prepared graphics that are only designed so that it can perfectly work together with lenticular lens and can create printed images that have the illusion of depth or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles.

We refer the process of preparing graphics for use with a lenticular lens as interlacing. Interlacing is the process that creates a lenticular image from a set of 2D images. From each 2D image a small strip is taken and it is then combined in one image so that it can match a specific lens pitch. repeating slices of multiple images are used for an interlaced image preparation. The printing of interlaced image is in register underneath to the lenticular lens in respect of the effect to work.

Lenticular lens has different designs. There are various designs of lenticular lens. But lenticular prints are produced based on the sort of animation and the printing process that has to be used. In the lenticules the thickness and viewing angle should be different. It is also seen that angle of lenticular also differs. A narrow angle provides an optimal 3D effect, and for an animation effect a wide angle will work best. The lenticules for animation effects runs vertically or horizontally by lenticular printing manufacturer. However, better results indicate cleaner action.