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What is Sublimation Printing?

Sublimation is proven to be one of the highest quality methods of making custom
transfers with both quality and durability.

Sublime : to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense
back to solid form.

Here’s the process…
1. An image is printed onto a sublimation transfer sheet.
2. The transfer is placed on polyester material or a polymer-coated object.
3. Heat is applied to both objects with a flatbed heat press

The heat changes the solid print on the paper into a gas, which then prints into
the polymer surface. (the gas actually goes into the surface coating, then after
the surface starts to cool, the gas reverts back to a solid and the image appears)

 

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