T-shirt Transfer Paper-How to Ensure Its Image Is 100% Transferred to The T-shirt

Do you know how to transfer 100% of the pattern on the T-shirt transfer paper to the T-shirt in the process of T-shirt transfer? In the process of T-shirt transfer, please pay attention to the following situations, so as to better transfer.

T-shirt Transfer Paper

What materials need to be transferred to the T-shirt, what transfer sublimation paper to use, transfer paper and non-printing surface. Some printing surfaces are smooth. Only need to design a good picture output can be printed on the print. With the transfer of heat transfer ink, the pattern is printed on ordinary paper, in the need to transfer the T-shirt modifier spray point can transfer the pattern. T-shirt transfer paper can use ordinary ink transfer, but the effect of this paper is not as good as thermal transfer, but thermal transfer can not do dark clothes. Print patterns on transfer paper using ordinary Epson ink, no special ink. Never use dye ink. After printing the photos, you can use the heat transfer machine for transmission!

How to solve the problems in the transfer process and ensure the transfer quality

1. Soft color:

In sublimation transfer printing, color is lost. First, adjust the brightness, contrast and color depth of the image in Photoshop to make sure you transfer what you want. In addition, just print out the picture do not immediately print, to dry 3-8 minutes (according to the climate at the time), so that the ink into the paper, about 5 minutes. The color may be light enough for you to use over a long period of time to reduce the time it takes to raise the temperature to try. In addition, thermal transfer paper can only be used once, do not reuse.

2. The pattern is not transferred:

There may be your pressure is not enough, the temperature is too low or too short time caused by the first pressure adjustment is large, time and temperature rise appropriately. See if your print face is upside down.

3. Fading:

Your ink may not be original ink and the paper will not be absorbed. In addition, do not wash printed clothes right away. Separate them 24 hours later and turn them over for washing. Time and temperature values will prevent discoloration while increasing pressure.

4. Wash and fade:

Washing discoloration and transfer sublimation paper and ink have a great relationship, because dye ink is easily soluble in water, so insoluble pigment ink is not as good. Another clothing factory produces products that are not used in dye inks.

Dark T-shirt Transfer Paper

Currently, as personalized inkjet printing heat transfer, transfer paper works by using its thin film at high temperatures to melt the ink inside and then melt it on the fabric. Achieve the result of the "transition". Therefore, poor transfer paper adhesive layer will be slowly washed away, leading to discoloration. This heat transfer method is the most common, almost 95% of the above method, this method has special requirements for the fabric, must be Khmer or pure cotton. Many problems arise because the customer cannot figure out what is going on because of the impact of the error.Know this principle, you know this transfer is not what water transfer, nor heat transfer, in the clothing printing industry known as hot offset printing. Although some say their own tests show that there is indeed water transfer T-shirt transfer paper, and the effect is very good. In fact, the fundamentals of water transfer and inkjet printer ink are common sense, and it's important to know if this understanding is correct. Unless the weak solvent or resin and other inks printed directly on the clothes, or regardless of any inkjet printer inks, are pigment inks or dye inks, in washing, quantity will appear faded phenomenon.

5. The sun fades:

This is the sun's uv fade, and transfer paper has nothing to do with, only with the ink, bad ink does not add any anti-uv agent, will soon fade, quality duration is long, but long - in the sun, the speed will speed up the fade.

6. How to deal with the relationship between ink and transfer paper:

As a light T-shirt transfer paper: can be printed with ordinary ink, the picture quality is high, but the picture part of excess to trim, and the paper quality must be good, the picture transferred to the smooth, such as 24 hours after cleaning does not fade, can. Thermal sublimation ink, on the other hand, opens a layer of solid color, and needs to be printed. The difference is that it applies to cotton. 

Light T-shirt Transfer Paper

Also can use ordinary ink printing, image quality is high, the pictures don't need to play, for all kinds of fabrics, it is similar to the high-performance thermal transfer, but the glue water to clip, you can cooperate with high elastic heat transfer, its advantage is convenient and no board, but the cost is high, if the quality is not easy to fade, smoking, blowout, don't wash, not strong, hard and thick transfer not distress.
The reason for the impact of T-shirt transfer is not only related to sublimation ink, but also related to many factors. I hope you will notice these problems during the transfer process.

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Company Name: Fei Yue Digital Technology Co.,LTD
E-mail: sales@feiyuepaper.com
Tel: 86-025-86628894
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Address: Central Road 323, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Choose Tacky Sublimation Transfer Paper Can Avoid Sublimation Ghosting? Is It True?

When we are in the process of sublimation printing , there will always be sublimation ghosting. Can we solve this problem with tacky sublimation transfer paper?

 Sublimation Paper

1.What is sticky sublimation paper? 

Sticky sublimation transfer paper is one type of sublimation paper, the difference is that it has a tacky field coating. The tacky field coating will be activated by heating. After the tacky field coating is activated, it will adhere to the fabric very firmly, so after the transfer is completed, when you lift up the pressure, the paper will still adhere to the fabric firmly, which can prevent the paper and textile from moving, ghost will not happen.
Sticky sublimation transfer paper is mainly used for tensile materials, such as lycra, tensile materials are elastic, easier to move in the transfer process. But even if you use elastic material, it doesn't mean you still need tacky sublimation paper, depending on the heat press machine.

2.What is sublimation ghosting?

For example, if you want to print an image that contains two characters. You carefully print the image onto transfer paper and attach it to the frame. After that, you need to press the frame for a while. After the frame is removed from the heat transfer machine, the paper needs to be lifted to show the sublimed surface, but unfortunately the paper falls on the sublimed surface. When you move the paper again, you see the shadow behind the text. This is called ghosting in sublimation. 

 Sticky Sublimation Paper

Although the panel is very hot under hot press, the transfer paper shifts slightly resulting in a repeat, called a ghost image left behind the original image. Ghosting can completely ruin the work, especially if the text is dark on a white background.

3.Where does the ghost come from? There are three main ways:

(1). You can print things like tiles, dye sublimation paper and slightly hang over objects. When pressed, depending on how you press the item, the ink from the overhang will be transferred to the upper or lower platen. Now you put a shirt or whatever under the press, and it comes into contact with the ink transferred from the previous press, and it will be ghost printed onto the new project.
(2). Place the dye sublimation paper on the preheated item. Once the sublimation transfer paper from the preheated items become hot, it began to transfer. If you put the hot sublimation paper down and move it around to adjust its position, it will be ghosted.
(3). The third cause of ghost is that the lifting pressure is too fast and the image drops. When we raise the pressure machine, it creates some tacky, and then it puts the image back in place, and when that happens, it moves the medium, causing the ink to move to another area.
The first two are easily solved by placing a teflon paper during the transfer, or by preheating your T-shirt and waiting for the shirt to cool before starting the transfer process. But the third problem is not easy to solve. So many customers switch to tacky Sublimation Paper.Lead to double the third reason is that you raise pressure, paper and textile products will rise by hot pressing (electrostatic effect), so if you will pressure increase too fast, it will produce some vacuum, then drop image returned, when this happens, it will move medium, cause the ink is transferred to another area.

Tacky Sublimation Transfer Paper

One thing you can notice from the above is that ghosting occurs when you use a flat hot press. Only in the flatbed heat press machine, you must lift the press by yourself or automatically. Therefore, when you use the roller heat press machine, there is no need to use sticky sublimation paper.

Therefore, choose tacky sublimation paper can avoid sublimation ghosting that is only one of the situations in which ghosting occurs. The specific situation needs to be analyzed.

More Info:
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Company Name: Fei Yue Digital Technology Co.,LTD
E-mail: sales@feiyuepaper.com
Tel: 86-025-86628894
Whatsapp: +86 15007920742
Address: Central Road 323, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

The Dye Sublimation Paper Curl Up,Do You Know Why and How To Solve It?

In the process of sublimation printing, the dye sublimation paper curling is a common and troublesome phenomenon. Do you know why and how to solve it？

What cause the dye sublimation paper curl up?

1. PAPER QUALITY

Paper quality is important when printing. Factors which affect quality include: stiffness,smoothness, electrical resistivity, friction coefficient, curl moisture, flatness, millwork, porosity and composition. The usual basic weight for paper is 75grams per squared meter.Good manufacturing processes keep this weight 99% of the time, however there is no single set of paper qualities that are optimum for all printing machines. You can find the optimum paper for your printer using the printer manual or visiting the manufacturer website.

(1)The width of the paper

The width of paper may, in some point, have a connection with the curling of paper after the printing process, but technically speaking, it affects a little in the real operations.

(2)The thickness of paper

Generally speaking, the thinner the paper, the easier the paper might be curled, and that is why most American users would choose to use low-weight sublimation papers. But thinner paper, like 45gsm, 60gsm can also perform very well with some famous printers, like Epson,Mimaki etc. This depends in deed.

2.  STORAGE OF PAPER

Dye sublimation paper

Paper should be stored in a cool dry place to avoid it from becoming damp prior to printing. Paper has a tendency to absorb moisture from its environment.Leaving paper in the tray for long periods of time may also cause it to curl. If it is left in the tray it is advised that the stack is flipped over and turned 180 degrees before printing.Paper should also be fanned before being put into the tray to separate the sheets of paper. They often get'stuck' together which can cause problems within the printer.Under normal conditions,we should keep humidity between 40%-60% . Never too high or too low.

3. FUSER

Curling can be caused by heat. If the fuser was too hot while the paper passed through, then the paper would curl.If your printer is old, it is advisable that it is serviced. Temperature controls within the fuser rollers degrade over time, so the fuser may be too hot, resulting in the paper curling too much. Cooler temperatures reduce the moisture loss and therefore reduce the curl.

4. INK LOAD

If the ink system allows or requires to load much inks, the paper would have to absorb too much inks, which makes the paper extremely wet, causing the paper curled easily.

Here are some tips help you to solve this problem:

1.Use high quality sublimation base paper

Our premium sublimation transfer paper uses advanced sublimation base paper (not offset). This base paper is made from natural wood pulp (softwood and hardwood), with a longer fiber length and a more flexible fiber than offset paper. So performance and scalability better. Better performance and scalability help reduce the possibility of curling.

2.Anti-curl coating

Base paper has two sides: felt surface and wire surface. The smooth surface of the base paper is usually felt face. The web side of the base paper is generally considered to be rough. Sublimation heat transfer paper is usually printed on only one side. Therefore, the sublimation heat transfer paper need only have a sublimation ink-receptive coating on the side that receives and fixes the sublimation ink. So smoother side will be coated with sublimation coating. The wire side can be uncoated or can have a coating on it.

Sublimation printing

However, if the paper is coated on one side only, the structure is unstable and balanced and the tendency of the paper to curl increases. Therefore, the second method of preventing the problem of curling is to coat the functional coating on the wire side. Functional coatings, also known as anti-curl coatings, provide enhanced stability of sublimation transfer paper.

In order to avoid bending the inkjet sublimation paper, it is necessary to solve the problem from the source, but even if you do it according to the above method, the sublimation paper will bend more or less during the transfer, so it cannot be said that 100% is not bent. It can only be said to avoid bending as much as possible.

More Info:
Website: www.skyimagepaper.com
Company Name: Fei Yue Digital Technology Co.,LTD
E-mail: sales@feiyuepaper.com
Tel: 86-025-86628894
Whatsapp: +86 15007920742
Address: Central Road 323, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China