What is sublimation ink?

In the following, we would like to introduce you to the topic of sublimation ink and how to work with it so that you can decorate shirts, caps, mugs, bags or mouse pads with your favourite motif yourself. Sublimation ink is not an ordinary refill ink for your printer, but a special ink for subsequent thermal transfer to various surfaces made of polyester (e.g. T-shirts) or treated with a polyester varnish (e.g. mugs). You can only use our sublimation ink on printers with a piezo print head whose ink cartridges or tanks do not have sponges or filters. This means that you can use printers with the corresponding properties from Epson, Brother, Roland, Mimaki and Mutoh, among others. You cannot use our sublimation ink with devices from Canon or HP, for example, as otherwise the sublimation process is already realised during the printing process - a new thermal transfer is then no longer possible! When using printers with ink cartridges with sponges, such as the Epson 24 cartridge, the colour particles would otherwise be filtered out before printing, which is why thermal transfer is no longer possible. When printing with sublimation ink, you should always use high-quality thermal transfer paper.

There is a suitable heat press for almost every application. We differentiate between the most common presses as follows:

• Flat press
• Cup press
• Cap press
• Small/large hand press
• Pen transfer press