What Is Sublimation Printing and How to Get Started In Sublimation

What is sublimation? Well, simply put, sublimation is a process by which sublimation dyes are printed onto a transfer medium with a specially prepared inkjet printer. Thereafter, those dyes are then transferred from the medium to an object or garment under the heat and pressure delivered by a commercial heat press. Sublimation only works on garments made of polyester, or on specialty objects made of polyester or given apolyester coating. When the heat and pressure are applied, the dye on the transfer medium sublimates, or becomes a gas, and is then absorbed into the polyester itself; the print is actually a part of the garment/ coating. It doesn’t fade easily, wear, or have any texture or weight.

What Do You Need To Get Started In Sublimation?
You will need an inkjet printer , sublimation inks, sublimation paper, and a heat press. In addition, you will need a white or light colored substrate that is either coated with a polyester coating or made of polyester fabric for sublimation to work.

If you are just getting started on sublimation, it is recommended that you buy a complete packaged system as that will save you a little bit of money compared to buying the components separately.


What Can You Print With Sublimation?
Anything that is flat, white or light colored and is either polyester coated or made of polyester fabric. You can also print on mugs, shot glasses, etc if you use a mug press or a mug wrap with an oven. Here is a small list of popular items that sublimation can be used:

Ceramic mugs | Water bottles | Coasters | Metals | Magnetic sheets | Plaques | Name badges | License plates | Car flags | Mouse pads | Fabric puzzles | Ceramic tiles | Glass tiles | Poker chips | 100% polyester shirts and more!

 Skyimage has a huge selection of high quality polyester coated items for you to choose from as well.

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Sublimation Transfer Mug‘s Printing Progress With A 3D Vacuum Transfer Machine

Sublimation Mug Transfer Machine with 11OZ NanJing Fei Yue Paper Industrial Co.,Ltd

 The items needed :  inkjet printer or Transfer Machine with sublimation inks installed, graphic art software like Adobe Illustrator or Coral Draw, sublimation paper, pair of scissors or art knife and a ruler, heat tape and a few blank sublimation mugs.   
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1. Have a template. You can download one from our website here. This template is for an 11oz, 325ml mug. Diameter of the mug is 260mm. Print area is 70mm Wide x 90mm High on two sides of the mug. 
2. Once you are happy with the position of you logo / logos you are ready to print your artwork. Generally for most good quality sublimation paper you don't require a lot of ink to be laid down on the sublimation paper.
3. Now adjust your pressure setting on your mug press so that when you clap your mug in the press it have medium to heavy pressure on it. 
4. Now plug in your mug press and set the temperature for 400F / 204C and the timer for 180 seconds and let it preheat to the required temperature. 
5. Once the time is up release the pressure off the press and remove the mug by the handle followed by picking the edge of one the the bits of heat tape on one end of the paper with your fingernail then peeling the paper off the mug in one smooth movement. (watch out its HOT!) 
6. Now place you mug on a heat proof surface until it has cooled down enough to handle.

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Sublimation Mug Transfer : How to Use A Heat Press Sublimation Mug Machine

Sublimation Mug Transfer Machine with 11OZ NanJing Fei Yue Paper Industrial Co.,Ltd

 The items needed :  inkjet printer or Transfer Machine with sublimation inks installed, graphic art software like Adobe Illustrator or Coral Draw, sublimation paper, pair of scissors or art knife and a ruler, heat tape and a few blank sublimation mugs.   
MATERIALS AVAILABLE:  http://sublihouse.com/

1. Have a template. You can download one from our website here. This template is for an 11oz, 325ml mug. Diameter of the mug is 260mm. Print area is 70mm Wide x 90mm High on two sides of the mug. 
2. Once you are happy with the position of you logo / logos you are ready to print your artwork. Generally for most good quality sublimation paper you don't require a lot of ink to be laid down on the sublimation paper.
3. Now adjust your pressure setting on your mug press so that when you clap your mug in the press it have medium to heavy pressure on it. 
4. Now plug in your mug press and set the temperature for 400F / 204C and the timer for 180 seconds and let it preheat to the required temperature. 
5. Once the time is up release the pressure off the press and remove the mug by the handle followed by picking the edge of one the the bits of heat tape on one end of the paper with your fingernail then peeling the paper off the mug in one smooth movement. (watch out its HOT!) 
6. Now place you mug on a heat proof surface until it has cooled down enough to handle.

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Plenty of Choices : Sublimation Transfer Printing Offers New Hope to Traditional Printing Industry

Since the arrival of the digital age the world has experienced an accelerated rate of technical change that has and continues to transform social interaction, human behavior and expectations. The impact is seen and felt by all people of the world and changing what consumer purchase, how they purchase and where they purchase.

We are living in a technological time when capturing and sharing images is easy and ubiquitous. People take pictures with digital cameras, smart phones, and tablets. Copiers often double as scanners that allow the rapid duplication of printouts, with an additional conversion of a page of text into an image format.

The advent of digital photography, mobile phones, and social media sites means people are taking exponentially more photographs. Experts predict that within this year, more than 1 trillion photos will be taken.

Not only has the number of photographs increased, so, too has the use of them in litigation for both digital and physical evidence.  With the amount of information that jurors must process, using photographs can help strengthen an argument or issue presented.

Unlike offset printing, digital printing does not use plates and ink rollers but instead uses options such as toner in laser printers or liquid ink in larger printers. This method of printing shines when low volume printing is required such as making brochures, greeting cards, and fliers. Digital printing also allows designers to utilize variable data.

This implies that each piece you print can have a unique code, name, image, or address printed on it. While offset cannot accommodate this need, digital printing is a great way to go for businesses that have to personalize their prints.

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WHAT IS SUBLIMATION TRANSFER PAPER

Transfer paper is used in textiles and arts or crafts projects. Often, an ink-jet or other printer is used to print an image on the paper. Then a heat press can transfer the image onto clothing, canvas, or other surface.
Transfer papers now existmostly for textiles, including elastic fabrics used for making sportswear and swimming suits, and for natural fiber fabrics such as cotton, silk, linen, and wool.

Normally, they are classified by weight, they are 60gsm, 70gsm,80gsm, 100gsm,120gsm.

 Here's another branch----T-shirt Paper.It can be divided into light/dark T-shirt paper and Tacky&Sticky or not Tacky&Sticky papers. Below is a vidio to teach you hoe to choose suitable paper for different T-shirts.

For dye sublimation transfer paper, fabrics historically had to be white or light in color. 100% polyester, poly/cotton mix (the garment should be at least 50% poly) microfibre and nylon can all be used. This printing process turns solid ink into a gas, avoiding a liquid stage. This process can be used on ceramic, wood, glass, or metal as long as they have a polymer coating.

Digital printing technology has greatly advanced in the past couple of decades, with benefits that include a quicker turnaround time and lower overall costs, especially for smaller runs. Before the actual printing, however, various plastic transformation processes provide useful and innovative products and solutions for digital printers that serve several markets including the automotive industry. 

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The Modern Inkjet Printer and The Application of Sublimation Transfer Printing in Textile Prints

Digital Textile Printing currently only occupies around 1.5% of the world textile printing market, the technology is showing growth which has been unprecedented in recent textile history.

Modern Digital print machines are fast approaching the same printing speeds of conventional/traditional print machines. Machine builders, Print head manufacturers and dye supplies have co-operated to the current position where the use of a digital machine to print fabric as a commercial opportunity has become reality and a viable alternative.

Digital textile printing machines have now reached the point of offering an all in one solution to the textile print producer that enables low cost design capability, quick response sampling, and sample to bulk accuracy at print speeds that are comparable to traditional textile print machines at an acceptable standard.

Whilst it is still more expensive to print digitally, the overall package of savings including overheads, screens, engraving costs, and proofing costs etc outweigh the process costs.process costs.

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