In the printing world, the term sublimation is used to describe heat-activated inks that change into a gas when heated and that have the ability to bond with polyester or acrylic surfaces. Typically, dye-sublimation printers apply different levels of heat to generate variable tones of color for photo-realistic or continuous tone images. These dots traditionally are sublimated from a dye-coated ribbon onto paper that blends the colors together very effectively.

Once on paper, images from a dye-sublimation printer may be transferred to other surfaces by reheating the sublimation dyes with a heat transfer press. The dyes will vaporize off the paper and onto the final substrate. Because the sublimation dyes are activated twice, the final image will be a second-generation sublimation transfer.

*The dye-sublimation transfer process is permanent so it will not crack, bleed, peel or fade as a result of ordinary washing and wearing.

*The inks transfer well to white and light-colored, synthetic surfaces such as polyester and acrylic, but do not transfer to natural surfaces like cotton or to dark-colored fabrics.

*It actually dyes the fabric rather than simply bonding an image to the shirt by using coated transfer media.

*They can be used for transfer onto ceramic, metal, polyester fabric, mylar, glass, some plastic and wood.

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