How Sublimation Works & What Factors Will Affect Sublimation Printing Cost?

Hi~ good afternoon, my dear friends. As we know, dye sublimation printing with wide application. Such as transfer printing on banner, textile, cloth, mugs and so on. There are many types printing, from small and medium to established printing businesses, all types of businesses have achieved fantastic print results due to dye sublimation printing. The sublimation printing process offers a multitude of benefits over traditional printing processes.

What are advantages of sublimation printing?
Simply put, dye sublimation process creates stunning final products that have smooth finishing. In addition, the final prints do not crack, wear off or fade, even after repeated use.

Most importantly, dye sublimation helps businesses produce ensure large-scale production, while reducing overall operational costs.

Dye sublimation printing: How it works

Before we analyze the cost of sublimation process, it is important to understand how it works. Generally speaking, sublimation refers to a process during which solid particles change into a gaseous state, without becoming a liquid.

During dye sublimation printing, the solid particles of sublimation ink change into a gaseous state under controlled heat and pressure. Thereafter, the gaseous particles stick to the fibers of the substrate (a base material on which an image is transferred).
Once the substrate is removed from the heat source, it cools down. The dye particles are embedded into the substrate.

When it comes to the cost of dye sublimation printing, there is no one-size-fits-all answer for this. Based on the type of substrate, the overall printing costs vary from one business to another.

One of the most important things about dye sublimation is that you will use a polyester material as your substrate. Polyester can withstand the heat during the sublimation process. Hard items, such as mugs require a polyester coating before they can be sublimated. Do you know what factors will affect sublimation cost?

Here are some factors that will affect your total printing costs:

The printer you use: You need an Inkjet printer for sublimation process.
Heat transfer machine: A heat press is used to convert the sublimation ink (on paper) to the substrate you want to decorate. To ensure high quality dye sublimation, it is imperative that you use a good quality heat press.

Dye sublimation paper: From normal to full sticky to fast dry, different papers have different prices.

Dye sublimation ink
Business costs: Other costs include packaging, labor, delivery and shipping.
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Sublimation Transfer Printing VS Digital Inkjet Printing, Do you Know Their Relation?

Dye sublimation printing of fabric banners and displays as compared to the items, or substrates, printed using an inkjet digital printer.
Do you know features of sublimation transfer printing?

Inkjet Printers
Large Format inkjet printer in our business is typically at least 30 inches wide, but go up over sixteen feet in width, and these can be used as dye sublimation printers as well, although not generally interchangeably without flushing feed lines and some other technical “fixes” that need to be done before being able to convert from one type of ink to a dye ink set.

For one thing, CMYK or four color process printing done with ink on an inkjet printer actually uses the 4CP ink set CMYK (short version of cyan-magenta-yellow-black), in contrast to the dye set used when printing in preparation for dye sub printing. The dye set is termed CMYO, which is short for cyan-magenta-yellow-overprint clear, where the dye is printed to a treated transfer paper, and in the heat transfer process becomes the black color.

Dye Sublimation Printers
Unsuitable Substrates or Unprintable Items

So, first, let me tell you what dye sublimation printers are NOT used for. They are not used for natural fiber fabrics such as cotton, linen, or bamboo. They are also not used for direct to fabric printing or what is erroneously called direct sublimation printing, which is really inkjet to fabric printing, or DTF (direct-to-fabric) printing (another term is DTS, or direct-to-substrate).
Dye sublimation is typically not used for materials like PVC (vinyl) decal stock or banner materials, as inkjet printing works fine as a surface print for these materials. Dye sublimation is generally not used for rigid plastics like styrene or polyethylene as flatbed digital UV printing is mostly used for this type of printing. Other rigids such as MDO plywood or heavier plastics are also printed on the flatbed UV inkjet digital printers.

Suitable Substrates or Printable Items
Large Format Dye Sublimation PrintingWhat dye sublimation is used for. With a special polymeric coating, there are many items that can be printed with the dye sub print process such as cups, metal or even wood plaques and awards, or anything else that can be inserted into a flatbed heated press.
And, of course, fabric. Polymer-based fabrics such as nylon or polyester can be printed using dye sublimation heat transfer from the treated transfer paper by printing a mirror image on the paper, matching it to the fabric, and sending it through heated pressure rollers.

The Printing Process
This process, like the flat press described above, converts the dye into a gaseous state and impregnates the heat-opened polymer cells with color, which, after the heat and pressure are gone, close in around the dye, leaving the color permanently as part of the fabric. This not only creates durable color, it also creates almost photographic quality continuous tones that are brighter and more colorful than an inkjet printer can normally achieve.


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