Question: In what commercial applications are dye sublimation printed cloth or fabric used?

There are quite a number of applications for dye sub printing on fabric/cloth, most of which are commercial at some level, although some products like shirts end up on retail store display racks and shelves.

Commercially, though, where an end user is using the actual printed fabric, there are still a lot of applications we can talk about. However, for those who are new to this discussion,

Question: I can’t think of the term that you call a large piece of fabric with a design or designs on it. Can you help me out?

I’ll give it a try. There are a lot of options here we can talk about, with a lot of ways to put designs on a large piece of fabric, or we can make a large piece of fabric using lots of pieces to make a design.

Question: If cost is not a concern, what is better?  Screen printing or dye sublimation printing?

While you could, in theory, print a fabric banner using screen printing equipment (t-shirts are most often screen printed and they’re made of cloth), the wider variety of things you can screen print cannot be printed using the dye sublimation printing process.

Dye Sublimation Printing

Here’s a short explanation to back up what I’m saying.

Fabrics Used

Dye sublimation banner or display printing is almost exclusively done on polyester fabrics,