What is Sublimation?

Sublimation is a printing method using special inks, heat, and pressure. Print digitally created graphics, photographs or scanned artwork from a desktop sublimation printer on to high quality paper and use a heat press to transfer your full color, photo-realistic image to polymer-coated garments, ceramic tiles and mugs, wood, plastic name badges and license plates, glass steins, metal award plaques and more...

Sublimated images have vibrant colors, are permanent and resemble a tattoo-like transfer, very soft on fabrics, without the feel of a decal. Sublimation Ink is infused into the surface of a polymer coated imprintable resulting in a high quality, durable, digital image transfer.

With a desktop Epson inkjet printer or Ricoh Gel printer, sublimation ink and a heat press, you can professionally transfer full-color photographic images, logos and artwork to a wide variety of garments and promotional products.

What is Needed

A Computer equipped with graphic design software such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop, good for photographs. Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw are a good choice for logos and type. A digital scanner and digital camera are also very useful.

An Epson inkjet printer or Ricoh gel printer loaded with Sublimation Ink cartridges and a high quality inkjet paper to carry the printed image.

A Heat Press - heat transfer equipment can be a flat press, cap, mug or plate press depending on what you intend to imprint.

Blank Imprintable Item - white or light colored polymer coated substrate including t-shirts, ceramic mugs, tiles and plates, plastic license plates and name badges, wood or metal award plaques, athletic apparel, fabric mousepads and coasters and much more.

Click here to view a PDF catalog of sublimation imprintables.
Note: we may not presently carry some of the imprintable items listed in this catalog. Please view our imprintables section to see what we currently offer.