Do You Know When to Use Sublimation Transfer Printing - and When Not To?

Hi~ Good afternoon, my dear friends! Today is cloudy in Nanjing and feel very cool. Now come into today's topic. Sublimation transfer printing is wide used in our daily life. But this technology is not suitable for anything, you should clear know when to use it – and when not to. Now read and follow my this article, I will tell you more.

Designs that work well with Sublimation printing

The method works particularly well on quirky, dramatic and almost ridiculous designs- a massive trend over that last couple of years, seen in both high and low end stores.

Now this T-shirt probably fits under quirky, dramatic AND ridiculous, and sublimation printing has allowed for the full effect to take place. The T-shirt is completely covered by design and uses a vibrant range of colours.
The repeated design below also works well, again because of the full coverage aspect of the design, the pattern of the print is carried on all around the T-shirt, just using the ends of the garment as natural finishing points.

Another type of design that works particularly well with sublimation printing, is photography prints. The method allows you to fill the whole surface with the photograph, instead of just placing it on the front of the garment in a rectangular fashion.

Sublimation also works well when your garment requires a number of different logos or designs. With traditional printing, you may be charged for each separate logo application – whereas, with sublimation, a large number can all be incorporated and printed in one go.

Designs that don’t work with Sublimation Printing

Designs with block colours or designs that require excruciatingly exact placement may not work as well with sublimation printing. With designs that involve slogans, DTG (direct to garment) printing can work better. DTG printing is essentially like using a normal printer, but just for T-shirts. So the garment is ran through a special flatbed printer and the designs are applied.

If you only need one logo in the centre of your garment, sublimation may not be the ideal way to go, purely because it’s generally more expensive to ‘print all over,’ than it is to apply one logo front and centre.

It’s important to note that, when using Sublimation printing, the finish is smooth and a part of the fabric. If you’re picturing a shiny vinyl finish (like a RUN DMC T-shirt) you should choose screen printing or something similar.

One of the keys to using sublimation printing effectively is knowing the methods limitations and picking a design wisely. Please know more knowledge about sublimation printing you can visit www.feiyuepaper.com. And know the pros and cons of sublimation printing you can visit last article. We can help you to be able to decide if the design you have in mind would work with sublimation printing, or if you are better off choosing DTG or screen printing.