Sublimation Explained

Sublimation is a type of full-color digital printing.  First, we print out a design using special inks and paper.  Then, we use a heat press to transfer dye from the paper to the fabric.  Once the process is complete, the fabric is actually dyed. You cannot feel the inks.  This gives the printed garment an extremely soft hand. Custom sublimation is also useful in printing hundreds of different personalized items.  We can also print sublimation paper for customers who have a sublimation printer but ran out of ink or paper.

Equipment:

We operate a Sawgrass SG1000 printer, Sublijet UHD inks, and a variety of commercial heat presses for sublimation.

Artwork:

For best results, artwork should ideally come in the following formats:

• Vector: Corel Draw (.cdr), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), or .eps files CMYK or RGB (preferred) format
• Raster: Photoshop: 300 dpi image sized to be the actual print size you want on the shirt; 8-bit; CMYK or RGB (preferred) format
• Items downloaded from the internet (unless purchased from artwork sites) are generally only 72 dpi-low resolution files, and in most cases, illegal to reproduce. If you don’t have professional graphic design software, you can use our online designer tool.  Additionally, you can have us create something for you. The better the clarity of the file supplied, the better the printed results will be.
• We use stock three paper sizes: 8.5” x 11” (8” x 10.5” printable area), 11” x 17” (10.5” x 16.5” printable area), and 13” x 19” (12.5” x 18.5” printable area).  For lower costs, please setup artwork files to maximize the paper size that is best for your project.  We can special order and print paper up to 13” x 51”.