Sublimation printing involves using heat to transfer dye onto fabric like polyester. It provides brighter colors and smoother transitions than inkjet printing, with the dye becoming permanently embedded in the fabric. However, sublimation printing is slower than inkjet due to the two-step heat transfer process, making labor costs higher. It can also be prone to creasing or wrinkling the fabric during printing, ruining the print. Newer printer designs that feed fabric and paper together are helping to address these issues.

1. Disadvantages of Dye
Sublimation Printing
on Fabric

2. Sublimation
printing, also
referred to as dye
sublimation
printing, is a
printing method for
transferring images
onto a substrate
(usually a cloth
material such as
polyester).
Sublimation refers
to a process where a
substance moves
from a solid to a gas
state without ever
being in a liquid
state. Sublimation
printing normally
involves the use of a
digital printer to
produce mirrored
images on
sublimation transfer
paper that has been
specially coated
with a transfer
material.

3. The continuous tone printing that creates brighter and smoother color
variations and transitions than you’ll find with inkjet printing, and a superior
overall look, in our opinion. Also, because the dye impregnates or is
sublimated in the fabric, it is permanent and cannot flake off like some types
of ink will, particularly garment inks used for t-shirts or inks printed on rigid
substrates. So, durability and appearance are probably the best examples of
the superiority of dye sublimation printing of fabric or garments.
Of course,it also has
its disadvantatages.

4. The first disadvantage of
dye sublimation printing
on fabric is slower than
inkjet printing because
you have two processes
in the heat transfer part
of dye sublimation, so
labor costs are going to
be higher to some
degree,although there
are now printers that
have the fabric and
paper inline and they are
drawn into the heated
rollers as the printer
continues to print.

5. The second
disadvantage is
also a production
issue that is being
solved by the
newer
printer/roller units
just explained in
the previous
paragraph.

6. In the past, and still in the present, it is not
uncommon for the fabric to get a crease or
wrinkle in it, or the paper, and suddenly
the whole transfer print and piece of fabric
are ruined. You would have to start over.
Many of those who have been at this for
awhile and are using older equipment
charge higher prices per square foot for
wider material, but many also don’t who
have the newer equipment.

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