The Pros and Cons of Sublimation Printer?

Sublimation printing is a way of printing a design from sublimation paper onto a piece of fabric or material through pressure and heat between 350 to 400 degrees. It is a cost-effective way to print to custom images on products by changing the solid particles of the ink into a gaseous state which is used by both companies and people at home.

Because of the high-quality end products produced by sublimation printing, sublimation printer became popular over the past few years. However, just like other printers, it is important that you know how to create the designs (by reading guides like this one) before you try it yourself. If you are wondering how does sublimation printer work, please read the introduction below to know more details.

If you are not opertating correctly, white creases or ghosting patterns will occur on the products. This will waste you energy and money. You had better test out a few before doing it in bulk, in order to get familiar with the machines and how the designs will be printed on the fabric. Try with a simple design to start with. Once you have gotten used to it, you can start to produce in bulk.

Pros and Cons of sublimation printer

So what are the pros and cons of sublimation printers?

The pros

It gives you the option to personalize and customize.

The biggest advantage of sublimation printing is the fact that it allows you to customize what you are printing. You can change the size and quality of the image that you are printing and fix any errors that occur owing to the printer itself. It can provide a broaden space for you to wield your imagination and make your ideas come ture. For example, you can design a lovely elephant on your shoolbag so that you will get a printing backpack with a cute animal.

It can be done quickly.

It brings a great convenient for urgent tasks with a strict deadline. Because of this technology, urgent tasks can be done much quicker than other methods that would require so many people to complete jointly. As for a clothing factory, it would be a best choice for them to produce yellow heavy industry dress in bulk. However, you can also print your smart soft backpack or TPU beach tote bag in different colors at home.

It creates high-quality designs

The quality of the designs produced by sublimation printer seems to much better than other types of printer. The color printed on the fabric or material is vivid, as is the DPI – depending on the printer you have purchased.

It creates designs that last longer.

The print of sublimation will not fade or peel. This is because the ink is absorbed, rather than other print as a layer on top of the fabric. This means that you needn’t worrying about mixing the item of clothing with white high-end wool coat or high-end v-neck dress when washing clothes.

The cons

Unfortunately, everything has its pros and cons. It is inevitable that sublimation has a few disadvantages what you must consider carefully before investing one.

It is only suitable for polyester also called PET or polyester blend materials.

This would be the deadly shortage of sublimation printer as there are so many kinds of fabric on the market. Cotton would be the most popular fabric which is widely used around us. Besides RPET as a new environment friendly fabric is also popular in the past few years. Not only environmentalists but also students even use a RPET backpack and OEM Tyvek backpack, which also indicates the increasing awareness of environment protection. So it is still a long way for this machine to improve for chasing the needs of modern people.

Ghosting

Ghosting occurs because the transfer paper shift during the printing process. There will be a light fade which looks like a ghost. This problem happens without a degree force to press the machine  or if the ink on the paper is not dry during the process. To prevent this question, you should make sure that the ink is dry in advance and that the right level of pressure is put on the fabric when it is being pressed.

White creasing

Another problem is white creasing. If there are any areas that the design has not reached, it causes white creases. This may occur when there is any moisture on the transfer paper or if any areas of the garment are folded. This are usually found in arms and along seams. This will make a great lost as poor quality clothing will be forbidden to sell on the market. However, there are still some inferior-quality products entering into clothing market such as jeans coat, heavy industry dress and also found in backpack market as backpack has much more seams than clothing such as TPU beach tote bag.

It can cause color mismatch

This machine allows you to draw your design which will be displayed in RGB mode, whereas it will print your design in CMYK mode. This means that the colors won’t be exactly the same as they are printed, because they are some degree different between the real color and the color appearing on the screen. To improve this, you must make sure setting the machine correctly besides RIP software would help. RIP software is a good way to modifying the color.

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