As you would expect, a very hot object can burn the skin if touched. However, the infrared energy emitted from a BBC heater will not cause an indirect health problem such as interference with a heart pacemaker, or negative effects from “radiation.”
Partially heating an initial layer of ink is essential to provide an under base for the next color (same or different) to give the resulting impression more brilliance. Without flashing, the color impression would be duller or changed by the color of the garment underneath. And flashing a color impression allows for another color to [...]
Actually, they are both infrared heaters, except quartz heaters emit higher temperatures with resistance wire inside a quartz tube. A quartz heater can reach the temperature for which it is designed in less than a second; however, this time and temperature can be hard to control. A quartz heater can flash an ink impression in [...]