Dye Sublimation Shirt Printing

Dye Sublimation Shirt Printing    

As Halloween is fast approaching, costumes are getting planned and bought. Instead of having the same costume as everyone else, you can make your own. There are many ways to make your own costume by finding things around the house you can use or borrowing something from a friend. I have one more option that could work just for you. So sit back and let me tell you the story about dye sublimation shirt printing.

Dye Sublimation Shirt Printing    

Our story takes place at a screen printing company called AMBRO Manufacturing, who also offers many other services other than screen printing. One of those is called sublimation. Sublimation is a type of heat transferring. When the paper gets hot the vapers escape from the paper and gets dyed into the shirt. The colors are vibrant and bright. The options for colors are endless, as we can print full color images using dye sublimation shirt printing. The only request we have is that the shirt must be white and 100% polyester to guarantee the best results.

You can get an all over design or just on the front. We also can do prints on both sides of the shirt. The print can go from seam to seam which is huge and becoming more and more popular. Imagine what you can do for your costume with a print from seam to seam.

Take a fly over to our place and come get your dye sublimation shirt printing with us. You can give us a call anytime at (908) 806 8337 or email us and we will get back to you with any questions you may have. You can have the most creative Halloween costume anyone has ever seen and it will be one of a kind that will be the highlight of the night.

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Sublimation Printing

Sublimation Printing

Sublimation Printing involves the use of custom dye sublimation inks, industrial heat and pressure and polyester garments.  The preferred garment type is 100% polyester, but blends of polyester can work well with Sublimation Printing.  For example, closely related polyester fabric family members like Rayon, Nylon, Spandex, Satin and others can accept designs.

Sublimation Printing

If you've done a double take on the street after watching someone walk by with a crazy looking T-Shirt on, then you've probably seen Sublimation Printing up close and personal.  Sublimated garments are unmistakable, they are bright, colorful crisp designs with photo realistic looks that completely cover a garment.

Sublimation Printing is not very complicated, and most casual on lookers would say that the process involved to create a sublimated t-shirt looks no different that age old iron on transfers, but the truth couldn't be further.

Unlike old style iron on designs that sat on top of the shirt, Sublimation Printing fuses the design itself into the fibers of the T-Shirt.  Screen Printing, Heat Transfers, Vinyl Transfers and Foils are all sitting on top of the fabric.  If you run your hand on top of any of these designs you can feel the design work. 

With Sublimation Printing, since the artwork is fused directly into the fabric fibers, there is no feel to the design at all.  With dye sublimation it almost as if the fabric were designed before the t-shirt was sewn together.

In the past Sublimation Printing had to be done in a cut and sew project where fabric panels were cut, sublimated, then sewn together.  This ensured that there were no seams missing design.  That is partially true today, but advances in dye sublimation printing technology have enabled garment decorators like AMBRO Manufacturing to create some seamless designs on already sewn T-Shirts.  While there is some creasing, the cost differential between cut and sew projects and post sewn garments is vast, so small imperfections are often over looked.

If you are considering a Sublimation Printing project, please consider giving us a call (908) 806-8337 or email us.