 Yo YouTube welcome back to Kenny's TV and in this video I'll be talking about the sublimation essentials that you will need for your printing business at home so check it out if you like this kind of content subscribe comment drop a question smash the like button I drop a video every Thursday whether it be about sublimation tutorial so tune in to next week I'll be talking about free software that can actually start doing some graphic designs for your sublimation print business so stay tuned we're about to go over all the essentials right now so yo this is probably one of the most important things that you will need and that is your computer whether it be a desktop laptop tablet I even heard phones but definitely I recommend if you're going to be doing graphic designs print announce some stuff some kind of desktop laptop or tablet is what you're going to be using so that way you can send a design to the printer which we will by the go-to next so this is one of the printers that I converted this is the Epson series workforce 7840 you check out my video I converted this step-by-step and this is what the print will come out and these are 11 by 17 paper what I'll talk about next but this is one of the printers that I have for sublimation this for bigger prints on the graphic design I paid less than $300 for this it might win it up now since everything's getting back in the business if you check out one of my other videos this is the Epson equal tank series you can convert any series of these if you watch my video very easy tutorial this is only smaller prints eight and a half by 11 but you know you definitely still be creative still come out with some good quality prints and once you sublimated on to whatever equipment or products that you're going to be using it'll definitely turn out nice no complaints using this printer at all I use both of these printers you don't have to have both printers you can have one whatever is in your budget but definitely these are gonna print out your design this is the eight and a half by 11 you can still do your research on this using a subs there's other sublimation paper out there that's pretty good I have no complaints on these these come out very well on the design of the t-shirt and this is the bigger size a subs for the for the bigger printer 11 by 17s and you can actually get some good big graphics it's not the wrong way having a smaller printer and then there's nothing wrong with having a bigger printer but make sure whatever printer that you have you do your research and this is the garment right here this is probably one of the best blanks let me get some more like it's probably one of the best blanks out here for sublimation this is a jerseys 21m and that's a hundred percent polyester it feels like cotton definitely check out my other videos I have how to sublimate onto a t-shirt tutorial on this right here and this is underrated essential that you will need is a lint brush because once you start printing your design and about to put it on your garment you need to lint brush the area to get all those fibers up the whole point of the lint brush is to do the area you about to sublimate that way once you put your design down and heat press it you won't have those kind of fibers looking like a light bluish type color or streaks from your prints so definitely new one of these for your sublimation business now we won't talk about the inks shout out to Cosmo Inc this is again this is not a affiliation or commission but this is very good quality ink that I'm gonna be going forth with and this is for the equal tank series will come in a nice box like this and that was for this printer I can actually still use these inks with the syringes for this printer right here this is actually the actual kit conversion kit that I bought and this one in here real quick if you look at my video I take you step-by-step it came with the refillable cartridges came with the ink and it came with the syringes with the tips on them right there but you know I got backup chips so just in case so just keep in mind if you decide to convert your 78 20 or 78 40 series that it can be a little pricey I'm still trying to figure out a way to bypass this next up off you know you probably need some scissors it's good to have that way you can cut out access white around your print on your design when you lay down here and the reason why when you heat press your design you know you want less is possible unless you're doing a full sheet that's understandable but the less you have the better it will come out and just make sure you don't cut all the way off you just leave some access like you'll just outline this with the scissors so it's good to have some scissors the next up yo you have your heat transfer tape you can't heat transfer tape but it's good if you sell into a customer you'll lay this down on top of your garment after you heat I'll give it a light heat press and then brush everything basically you'll just take four sides you know until your garment it's good to have a t-square handy that way you want your work to look as professional as it can be the center the most center of your garment okay you'll also need butcher paper and this is this natural butcher paper it's from meathuggers this butcher paper out there you can go online and research as far as pricing so this is not a shiny kind this is natural butcher paper if you happen to run out a butcher paper eat butcher paper to to actually protect your garment and your heat press can use normal copy paper not the premium copy paper where it has the shiny sign just natural copy paper as well you can place it off design and it'll protect your garment it'll protect your your heat press plate and also you will have to put it inside the t-shirt the butcher paper to protect the backside from the ink not going all the way through okay so just watch my other video got a tutorial on that I'm gonna jump into the heat press and this is my heat press that I have it's a 15 by 15 definitely you see that's the rubber piece it gets the job done I mean I'm still able to get big graphics on it it got settings on it there you can actually set it up does get very hot so the butcher paper is to protect the top part of this plate and this right here as you can see is Teflon paper so they do have covers that you can put at the bottom and covers that you can actually put on the top to give more protection if you if you can get those I'm gonna get one eventually but will be upgraded my heat press but this right here is Teflon paper and then once I have everything lay down I also got another Teflon sheet that I put on top of the garment and that way when I press down on it you know it try to protect from getting the edges on there so this is pretty simple it got your pressure how tight you want it and you can do your settings you can set it up I gotta set it up for 285 to 4 seconds so I mean you can actually do vinyl and sublimation but this is for sublimation so basically your settings needs to be 385 to 400 at a 60 second press so this is my setup that I have this is pretty much the basics you can always do your research and check out what works for you as far as price range this is the essentials that you need I'll leave a description in the links in there thanks for watching stay tuned the next week subscribe subscribe subscribe and have a blessed day peace