Sublimation Printing on Shirts
Do you know what sublimation is? If not, it’s a process where a solid shifts to a gas without passing through a liquid phase. Why should you care? Well, for one thing, many of the printed graphics you see around you on a daily basis have been done with sublimation printing. For example, I’m sure you’ve seen sublimation printing on shirts before without even knowing what you were looking at. Think back to a noteworthy shirt that has an awesome all over graphic, chock-full of color or a high definition photograph with perfect clarity; chances are very high that that garment was printed with dye sublimation!
Sublimation Printing on Shirts
How can sublimation printing on shirts be capable of so much? Well, the dye sublimation process is unique because it starts with printing out your artwork digitally from a sublimation printer onto a heat transfer sheet. The artwork comes straight from the digital file so all the colors and clarity remain intact; there is no need for screens or color separations like with screen printing. The transfer sheet gets place onto the blank shirt to be printed and together that are placed into the sublimation press. The heat press applies high temperatures and pressure for a brief period of time to cause the dyes to sublimate and transfer into the garment.
Once the sublimation occurs, the print is locked into the very fibers of the garment permanently. What you see on the computer screen is what you’ll see on the fabric and that’s what makes sublimation printing on shirts so appealing. You have no limits on details and colors, so you are free to explore every corner of your creativity to the maximum. And you can get all of that done here at AMBRO Manufacturing because we are a contract sublimation, screen printing, and embroidery company! If you are interested in placing an order for custom sublimation printing on shirts, or if you would like to find out more about us, you can contact us by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.
Sublimation Printing on Shirts