Sublimation printer – Aneesh

A dye-sublimation printer is a computer printer which uses heat to transfer dye onto materials such as a plastic, card, paper, or fabric. The sublimation name was first applied because the dye was considered to make the transition between the solid and gas states without going through a liquid stage. This understanding of the process was later shown to be incorrect. There is some liquefying of the dye. Since then, the process is sometimes known as dye-diffusion, though this has not eliminated the original name. Many consumer and professional dye-sublimation printers are designed and used for producing photographic prints, ID cards, clothing, and more.

These are not to be confused with dye sublimation heat transfer imprinting printers, which use special inks to create transfers designed to be imprinted on textiles, and in which the dyes do indeed sublimate. These are done at lower temperatures but higher pressures, particularly in all-over print processes.

Some dye-sublimation printers use CMYO(Cyan Magenta Yellow Overcoating) colors, which differs from the more recognized CMYK colors in that the black is eliminated in favor of a clear overcoating. This overcoating (which has numerous names depending on the manufacturer) is also stored on the ribbon and is effectively a thin layer which protects the print from discoloration from UV light and the air, while also rendering the print water-resistant.

For ID card printing, text and barcodes are necessary, and they are printed by means of an additional black panel on the (YMCKO) ribbon. This extra panel works by thermal transfer printing instead of dye diffusion: a whole layer, instead of just some of the dye in the layer, transfers from the ribbon to the substrate at the pixels defined by the thermal head. This overall process is then sometimes called D2T2 (Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer).

WER-China provides various print size sublimation printers, the hot sale model is 1.6-meter model WER-EW160, equip with EPSON DX5 print head, very good print effect. welcome to send us inquiry!

Successful client Story :

I am Aneesh from Oman. Our company is located in Muscat city, doing the advertising printing work. I bought a 1.8 meter sublimation printer from WER-China in the year of 2015 August, the machine has been working good till now, although some small problems, but the technician helped me a lot, i really appreciated for that. I am considering to add one more machine to develop my business.  good working till I needed a machine that can print fast and with high quality.