‘Digital Printers’ Articles at Visigraph

Dye Sublimation Printing – Printers, Papers, and the Process

Barry K. Brown — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:23:57 +0000

Using dye sublimation printers – the special paper and the process of large format dye sub printing.

Question: What are Dye sublimation printers used for?

Dye sublimation printers are used mainly for making prints on polyester fabric. The fabric can be used for clothing or advertising media, such as teardrop banners, “L” banners, hanging banners, flag banners, tradeshow displays, backdrops, X Banners, roll up or pop up banners, retractable banners, etc., etc.

Dye and Ink Color Spectrum

Dye sublimation printing is different from other types of printing in that it uses dyes rather than ink,

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Dye Sublimation Fabric Printing – THE Best Print Quality

Barry K. Brown — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:31:39 +0000

Dye sublimation versus Toner-based printing. Liquid inkjet, solid Ink, and UV Printing Processes – which produces the highest print quality?

Question: What print technology produces the highest quality text and graphics? Toner-based, liquid inkjet, solid ink, dye sublimation, thermal, or UV printers?

That’s a very complex question. Off the cuff, dye sublimation would be my first answer, but that’s not very thorough of an answer because there are different substrates for different uses, and each has it’s own special ink set.

For instance, if you need a polyethylene OSHA warning sign, you are not going to be using dye sublimation printing.

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