Have You Know How to Use Sublimation Printing Technology to Make One Retro Jersey?

Hello, nice to see you again, my dear friends! Have you know how to use sublimation printing technology to make one retro jersey? May be someone doesn't know! Let's read my this article, I will tell clearly.

DESIGNING YOUR RETRO JERSEY
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First of all, you should make a design. The design process for retro jerseys generally starts with an idea sparked from trawling through your extensive archive of old books, magazines and photographs. We then carefully choose the jersey design that we want to bring back to life, with the help of head designer, a design for the jersey is then produced showing the exact layout of the panels, the logos, zip choice, cloth badges, labels etc
After a few iterations, everything is approved and the order can go into production.

DIGITAL PRINT OF THE DESIGN

Since the late 1980's, jerseys have been primarily made from a polyester mix with the process of applying the colour to the white polyester fabric called dye-sublimation printing.

As you would expect, different manufacturers use different printing methods dependant on the quantities you are talking about. For example, if you are getting a very short run produced (small club custom jerseys), then a digital print would be used whereas if you are getting hundreds of the exact same jersey produced the older and more accurate method of offset printing would be preferable.

The traditional offset printing produces a higher quality print as it is far more stable because it uses single solid inks to produce colour, but unfortunately it only becomes cost-effective at high volume.

Whereas the Digital printing method uses plotters that have to mix colours to produce the different colours which can sometimes lead to differences in colour unless they are maintained and calibrated correctly.

Skyimage use specially manufactured, environment-friendly heat activated inks/dyes that are then fixed by heat and pressure into the polyester. The images from the design process are printed on a heat-resistant sublimation transfer paper and as a mirror image of the final design. The printed sheets of paper are dried and ready for sublimation.

CUTTING & SUBLIMATION PROCESS

The fabric is cut into the various panels (you can see the cutting pattern in the before the printed transfer papers are then placed on top of it and when pressure and heat are then applied using a heat press - typically 180-200°C for 35-60 seconds.

The physical process of sublimation is when the dye sublimation ink is sublimated into a gas state that then binds with the fibres of the fabric creating a virtually inseparable bond. That inseparability is relative to heat, so if you took the finished print and subjected it to a temperature source - water or gas - equivalent to the original sub process the ink could sublimate again destroying the design.

The sublimation print process is complete when the paper is removed. Sublimation permanently fixes the logos/colours/graphics to the polyester fabric and the print cannot be scratched or washed out. It becomes part of the fabric.

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