 You won't believe what you can make with a sublimation printer. We're going to show you what we made right now. Hey, what's up? Do you like do-it-yourself projects? Do you like making things yourself? So do we. So join us each week for a new project. Go ahead and hit the subscribe button. Tick that bell to be notified of our new ones that come out every week. This week, we're messing around with sublimation printing. We got a new toy off of eBay, so we decided to try it out. What's sublimation printing? We had no idea what it was either. So we did a bunch of research and bought a bunch of toys. All right. So sublimation printing is using heat transfer dye, sublimation dye. It reacts with polyesters and PVCs to kind of embed the image inside of the polyester. It's like a heat transfer chemical reaction thing. Yep. This isn't a science class. This is a make it class. So it just embeds itself into these different polyester coatings. Now, there's two ways that you can get your materials to print on. There's one. You can buy it. They're called blanks. They have a bunch of different stuff. This one's a blank. It's aluminum coated in polyester. This one, we used some spray to coat it in a clear polyester that we found online. And we also coated this one in a clear polyester. This is just a regular tumbler. We're going to see if the spray or the blank works better. And we also sprayed a t-shirt that's cotton with the polyester. And then we bought a polyester t-shirt and we're going to see which one works better. Polyester cotton blend. Polyester cotton blend. 60% polyester. So we're going to see how that works. The higher the ratio of polyester, the better it will take. So we found this printer on eBay. I picked it up for about 180 bucks. It took some tinkering. We had to clean it up, clean it out, and add a continuous ink system so that you can print large things and large quantities of things using the sublimation dye. We had to add this to our printer. And there's fake printer heads in there. They just suck from these things. We printed out a couple of logos. We're going to print out the logos on things. And then we printed out a couple of pictures. We're going to try to put these on things. And we're going to see how they look, how they come out. All right, what are we trying first? What do you want to start with? You just want to go in for the aluminum and the picture? Right, yes. This was pre-purchased with sublimation coating on it. So yeah, I agree. Yes, we ordered a dozen. Basically a dollar a blank. And they're pre-treated and everything. So let's peel the backing off. You got some high heat tape to hold it in place. What is going on here? I get some scissors. All right, I laid it face down. And when we did all of our prints, we printed everything mirrored. So our heat press is set at 375. And this thing said to press it at medium pressure. There you go. I'm going to place this face down. All right, we ready to try it? Let's try it. All right. By the power of grayscale. How do you count in 20 seconds? Oh. I don't know how to get the timer to go. Start. Set. Five Mississippi, six Mississippi, seven Mississippi, 15 Mississippi, 16 Mississippi. I'm going to get my first. 17 Mississippi, 92 Mississippi. All right, that's about 20, right? Yeah. Are you sure you peel it off now? Don't you want to let it cool? No, we said peel it off. All right. That's what the paper looks like when we're done. It's really faded now. It's really faded now. But man, you got to check this out. This looks good. We're going to be doing all kinds of stuff on this aluminum. I wonder if the wood's going to look as good. Check it out. Looks pretty good, huh? So I'm surprised how awesome that looks. That really does. It really does. Looks good. That thing was hot. Take the wood. Now we sprayed the wood with that stuff we got online. This die press, we sprayed it. You got to mix it and then you spray it. Let it dry completely. Taking this picture, we're going to put it on a piece of the wood. It's just a piece of scrap wood from the garage. I think this one we're going to do face up. All right. Let's see. 20 seconds again. Yep. I'll tie it this time. All right. Like an actual timer. Well, the power of gray skull. That's like high pressure. All right. It's high pressure. We're just going in high pressure. High pressure. Yes, I should have loosened it up a little bit more. 20. Stop. Okay. Open that thing. Whoa. Stop. All right. Right here. Oh, that didn't work. Maybe it needs to be longer. Didn't work. I don't think it was even. Didn't work. We're going to put it back on. What? I'm going to put it in the center. And we're in. All right. Would you have 45 seconds? I don't know. I know. We didn't even do any research on the wood. No, on the wood. He came up with that last minute. He threw that over here on this table and I was like, what are we doing? Boop. It's smoking. Ah. All right. We're up. We've got a smoker. Popcorn. Why are you using your hands? It's not aluminum. And I don't want it to fall off the table. All right. Let's see how it went. Not okay. Didn't work. We'll have to work on that one. That one sucked. I don't know if we should put a piece of Teflon in the shirt. I don't know if it'll come out on the back. Oh, I did hear. Yes. I did read that it might go all the way through to the back if you don't put a Teflon sheet inside the shirt. All right. All right, let's try that. We're going to put a piece of Teflon in first. Okay. And then another sheet of Teflon? Yes. All right. How long? 20 seconds? Sure. All right. How long have we got? A minute. 58 seconds. Go. Just, yep. Oh, here. Take it off. Okay. Wow. That came out really good. Don't know if you can see. All right. I say we do a minute again. Ready? Yep. Okay. Go. All right. Minutes up. Ooh. Started burning it. That still looks good though. The printing looks good, but I don't know if you can see at the top of the logo. I don't know if that's burnt or what. We swapped out the attachment for the cup attachment. We got this whole press thing for like $200 on Amazon. We can do plates, t-shirts, cups, hats, like four or five different sizes of cups or something. Mugs and cups, yes. Tumblers. This is a tumbler. I think you can pick them up for like three bucks. All right. The thing's hot. All right. I'll just put it out for a minute. Ooh, smoky. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Here's a hand. All right. Maybe it didn't need to be 90 seconds. Yeah. That looks burnt. That's too long. Careful. Is it hot? Okay. That wasn't good. Yeah. That was, that was 45 seconds. Smells like fireworks. Oh, not bad. Not bad. Okay. All right. The untreated cup that we left in for 90 seconds. And that's what the one that we sprayed looks like. We're going to get some blanks and we're going to try those, see what they look like. All right. That was it. I'd say we were about 50-50. Some of the stuff worked great. Like the t-shirts worked out great. Yep. T-shirts worked out great. The aluminum came out amazing. I mean the picture on it. It just looks awesome. It looks great. It looks awesome. We also did a logo on it. The logo came out great. So these were the purchased blanks. And then we tried to add polyester spray to the board. It didn't work, but we think that's because we didn't leave it in long enough. Yes. And then we tried one cup with the coating. Came out okay. Looks pretty good. And one cup we just tried off the shelf from Walmart. Looks like crap. Needs the coating. We tried to spray in a cotton shirt with the coating. That looks great. Came out great. Yeah, looks great. And we tried a polyester blend. And that came out great. Hey, if you guys liked our project today, even though we had a couple of fails, why don't you go ahead and subscribe. Give us a like, a share, subscribe. Let us know what you want us to try for you next. We're down to try to do anything, build anything, make anything. Let us know down in the comments. Otherwise, we'll see you guys next week. See you next week.