Introduction to Dye Sublimation Heat Transfer Imprinting

Condé's David Gross presents an introduction to dye sublimation heat transfer printing. He shows the complete overview and history of present day digital imprinting. The transfers are created using a Ricoh® GX e3300N or GX7000 printer with Sawgrass® SubliJet-R™ sublimation inks on TexPrint-R® Sublimation Paper, with a George Knight™ heat press. All products are available from conde.com, including the George Knight® DK20™ heat press indicated in the demo.

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[marcperella4]

I have heard of people doing sublimation/transfer with cotton and other materials. whats the difference??

[condesystems]

@marcperella4 That would not be sublimation at all. Sublimation is defined as ink + polyester. There are some sublimation imitation processes, the best of which is ChromaBlast by Sawgrass for cotton.

[gideeeon]

Hi, is the t-shirt 100% polyester?

[condesystems]

@gideeeon YES!

[Delirium619]

just yesterday i came from a job interview for a job designing graphics to be printed by sublimation. This answered a lot of questions for me about the process!

[MysticTrades]

@condesystems Hi, yes sorry I must have been watching videos of standard dye ink instead of sublimation. This is good to know thank you

[condesystems]

@MysticTrades I don't know what research you have been doing but I suggest you watch one of our numerous videos. There is no "cutting out" or white residue involved with sublimation imprinting on tee shirts.

[MysticTrades]

@condesystems Hi, I have been making sublimation mugs for a while now and wanted to get into the t shirt business. I've done a little research and found out that when using a heat press you have to cut out the non printed area on the sublimation transfer sheet once printed. Otherwise this would leave a white residue around the image. Squared and circular designs aside I was wondering how you would cut around an image that is highly difficult to do by hand?

[420jaymac]

@condesystems thanks for your response! much appreciated

[condesystems]

@420jaymac Since the image is dyed in it will never crack or peel. It MAY fade as nothing is really safe from UV light, but you would have to hang it in the direct sun for quite awhile to get it to fade.