Sublimation printer – A businessman from Mongolia

Dye-sublimation printing is a digital printing technology using full-color artwork that works with polyester and polymer-coated substrates. Also referred to as digital sublimation, the process is commonly used for decorating apparel, signs, and banners, as well as novelty items such as cell phone covers, plaques, coffee mugs, and other items with sublimation-friendly surfaces. The process uses the science of sublimation, in which heat and pressure are applied to a solid, turning it into a gas through an endothermic reaction without passing through the liquid phase.

In sublimation printing, unique sublimation dyes are transferred to sheets of “transfer” paper via liquid gel ink through a piezoelectric print head. The ink is deposited on these high-release inkjet papers, which are used for the next step of the sublimation printing process. After the digital design is printed onto sublimation transfer sheets, it is placed on a heat press along with the substrate to be sublimated.

In order to transfer the image from the paper to the substrate, it requires a heat press process that is a combination of time, temperature, and pressure. The heat press applies this special combination, which can change depending on the substrate, to “transfer” the sublimation dyes at the molecular level into the substrate. The most common dyes used for sublimation activate at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. However, a range of 380 to 420 degrees Fahrenheit is normally recommended for optimal color.

The end result of the sublimation process is a nearly permanent, high resolution, full-color print. Because the dyes are infused into the substrate at the molecular level, rather than applied at a topical level (such as with screen printing and direct to garment printing), the prints will not crack, fade or peel from the substrate under normal conditions.

Successful client story :

I am a businessman from Mongolia. I want to start my business with t-shirt printing customized business. The first time I see WER is on Google, and then I enter to visit their official website, I was interested in their printers when I first open their website. So I decide to go their factory for the business.

As my English is not good. But I have a friend in Beijing city of China. So I contacted my friend and asked him to come with me go to WER factory. You know, when I went to the maker of the machinery, they traded me very well like Chinese company’s do to visiting buyers. Given the tour, demonstrations, anything I asked to see or to know about I was shown and told. Workers are paid a pittance, given housing and meals. The people are super friendly, gentle, clean, serious, and exhibit many virtues.

I got an experience for printing on the t-shirt, and pay the cash to them to order that A2 DTG t-shirt printer WER-D4880T. And I got the training that afternoon. As I need the machine urgently, so they short the production time and send to me in 5days. I am really much appreciated for the fast delivery.

The machine is amazing to print our designs on T-shirts, many customers love our T-shirts. We will do mostly vintage design T-shirts and when the weather becomes cool, we will print long sleeve T-shirts. Maybe we will test other types of garments later. And I decide to buy another one printer to enlarge my business.