Dye Sublimation Printing
Sublimation printing is often a procedure that allows the transfer of your full colour graphic or photograph onto a unique object selected away from a wide variety. The objects include materials for example metal, glass, ceramics and unisub products. These materials are then given a unique coating to allow them to become sublimation receptive. Additionally, there are some certain synthetic fabrics that allow photographs or designs being printed onto them. Included in this are T-shirts, jigsaw puzzles, mousemats, metals, tiles, mugs, coasters, keyrings plus more, however there are some materials that can’t be printed on, these include cotton fabric and garments because sublimation printing is always done on polyester, polymer or polymer coated products. Although it is not preferable to print on cotton it may really be done nevertheless the image will wash out in just a few washes.
The process is called simple since there are not very many steps which can be come to produce the high quality goods. First, the customer designs the specific little bit of artwork on their computer using any graphical design software they desire. The printer will then be packed with sublimation ink which prints onto Epson photo quality paper with 720dpi (dots per inch) giving the graphic a very high quality appearance. Sublimation inks are basically a formulation of your variety of coloured dyes suspended in liquids that can move through an electronic printer.
