sublimation printing

  For people who are doing sublimation printing business, they all want to print successfully, but sometimes a small detail may lead the result to failure. Then what should we do to avoid this problems. Here are the tips.    1. The sublimation printing equipment  Choose the right sublimation equipment for printing is the most important thing. The equipment here means inkjet printer, sublimation transfer paper , sublimation ink, heat press machine. These are 4 essential things for sublimation printing, and they need cooperate with each other. Choose the right equipment can be a good start for your sublimation printing business.    2. Sublimation printing accessories  Besides the equipment, the printing accessories are also important. The common accessories are Heat gloves, thermal tape & tape dispenser, spray adhesive, Teflon sheets or Teflon covers, Silicone sheets, Heat transfer pillows and Sublimation heating pad. You must sto...

 I believe most of you have worn the sublimated sportswear,but do you the process of producing a sportswear? If you don ’t, then please follow me, and i will show you all the steps.   1. Inkjet printing   First, print the image with Wasatch (or RIP,Photoprint) software.Print the image to the sublimation paper with the large format inkjet printer.   2. Sublimation printing process   Transfer the image from the paper to the fabric through the heat press machine.   3. Laser cutting   When the image are printed to the fabric, then put the fabric on the laser cutting machine , the machine will cut the fabric along the edge of the image.And what you should do is put the same part of the sportswear together.   4. Sewing   The final step is sewing. After this step, we can say that a sportswear is finished.   As long as you see the whole process, you wi...

 Last time, we talked about the 2 common problems in sublimation printing : banding and moisture issues. Now, let’s talk about the another 3 problems.   1. Ghosting & Gassing Out   As we all know that when it is in transfer, heat press surface, transfer paper and surface of substrate must be close, can not have the gaps, otherwise it will make the transferred graphics blur.   The key to solve this problems is how to keep the transfer paper and the substrate close tightly. There are some solutions:   First, use heat resistant tape to secure the transfer to the product. Use care not to tape across the image area as this can often damage the image quality. In addition, use only a minimal amount of tape, as you will need to be able to easily and quickly remove the transfer after pressing.   Second, if you are sublimating the garment, you can use “repositionable” spray adhesive instead of tape. Apply a ve...

  Many people always complain about that they have met many problems in sublimation printing . Today, we will point out some common problems in this process, and hope it can be helpful for you.   1. Banding   If you encounter lines of missing ink in your printouts, then you are most having banding issues, the most common cause of which is clogged print head nozzles. Like it or not, ink dries out over time, all ink, not just sublimation ink . If this happens inside the print heads, then obviously the flow of ink will be inhibited, which results in streaks of missing ink on the printout.   If you want to solve this problems, what you need do is printing on a regular basis-at least several times per week, the ink will not have an opportunity to dry out. But for long stretches of time with no printer activity, you could have issues.    2. Moisture Issues   Have you ever met these problems:color shifting (colors l...

   As the essential equipment of sublimation printing , inkjet printer plays an important role. Learn to choose the correct printer can help you a lot for your sublimation printing business. Then, do you know how to choose the right sublimation printer?       1. Size of printing field   It is easy to know that you can’t use the large format printer for mug’s sublimation printing. Size does matter and the cost increases as the print field gets larger. The key here is to identify the largest jobs you anticipate doing on a routine basis.For example, if t-shirt sublimation will play a big part, then a printer with a maximum paper size of 8.5” x 14” probably isn’t the best choice. (Keep in mind that most printers won’t print to the edges of the paper, so the maximum image size is usually smaller than the maximum paper size.)       2. Number of ink color   The original inkjet printer usually have 4 colors, b...