An inkjet printer in our enterprise is often a minimum of 30 inches vast, however go up over sixteen ft in width, and these can be utilized as dye sublimation printers as properly, though not typically interchangeably with out flushing feed traces and another technical fixes that must be carried out earlier than with the ability to convert from one kind of ink to a dye ink set.
For one factor, CMYK or 4 shade course of printing carried out with ink on an inkjet printer truly makes use of the 4CP ink set CMYK (brief model of cyan-magenta-yellow-black), in distinction to the dye set used when printing in preparation for dye sub printing. The dye set is termed CMYO, which is brief for cyan-magenta-yellow-overprint clear, the place the dye is printed to a handled switch paper, and within the warmth switch course of turns into the black shade.
So, first, let me let you know what dye sublimation printers are NOT used for. They aren’t used for pure fiber materials equivalent to cotton, linen, or bamboo. They’re additionally not used for direct to material printing or what’s erroneously known as direct sublimation printing, which is de facto inkjet to material printing, or DTF (direct-to-fabric) printing (one other time period is DTS, or direct-to-substrate).
Dye sublimation is often not used for supplies like PVC (vinyl) decal inventory or banner supplies, as inkjet printing works tremendous as a floor print for these supplies. Dye sublimation is mostly not used for inflexible plastics like styrene or polyethylene as flatbed digital UV printing is generally used for this sort of printing. Different rigids equivalent to MDO plywood or heavier plastics are additionally printed on the flatbed UV inkjet digital printers.
What dye sublimation is used for. With a particular polymeric coating, there are a lot of objects that may be printed with the dye sub print course of equivalent to cups, steel and even wooden plaques and awards, or anything that may be inserted right into a flatbed heated press.
And, after all, material. Polymer-based materials equivalent to nylon or polyester could be printed utilizing dye sublimation warmth switch from the handled switch paper by printing a mirror picture on the paper, matching it to the material, and sending it by way of heated strain rollers. This course of, just like the flat press described above, converts the dye right into a gaseous state and impregnates the heat-opened polymer cells with shade, which, after the warmth and strain are gone, shut in across the dye, leaving the colour completely as a part of the material. This not solely creates sturdy shade, it additionally creates virtually photographic high quality steady tones which can be brighter and extra colourful than an inkjet printer can usually obtain.
The printed materials can be utilized on X-banner stands, L-banner stands, Retractable or Adjustable banner stands, feather banners, blade banners, pop-up banner shows, teardrop banners, commerce present shows, retail shows, hanging banner programs, clothes, and anything you possibly can consider that’s constituted of material within the industrial or non-commercial realm.