Dye Sublimation Printing Ink Color Fading-How Did This Happen?

Dye sublimation printing ink is one of the necessary consumables in heat transfer sublimation printing process. In textile printing, the pattern is first printed on the sublimation paper with sublimation ink, and then transferred to the cloth by controlling the temperature and pressure. In general, sublimation transfer printing can not be printed to cotton, but to print to polyester material, or the cotton content of the cloth does not exceed 30%, and the color of the cloth should better light color.

If there is discoloration after sublimation ink printing,many reasons would cause it, the main reason is in the printing machine and ink.

The first is the heat transfer printing machine. The heat transfer machine used in the market, through the temperature and pressure to print ink on the fabric, if temperature and pressure is not enough, or the temperature is too high,both will cause hot stamping unqualified, hot stamping effect is poor. Now a lot of people use such heat transfer printing machine printed patterns on the clothes, Often after a few washes, all the colors fall out.

Many sublimation printers on the market, in order to control the cost, will use low temperature gauge and pressure gauge, such equipment on the temperature and pressure control precision can not reach the standard, the required sublimation temperature is 220-240 degrees, hot stamping measuring temperature may be higher or lower than it.So how could such a machine print good quality patterns?The color losing naturally occurs.

The 2nd is sublimation dye ink.Heat transfer printing ink is divided into water-based ink and oil-based ink, inferior ink can fade easily, and different fabrics has different demand to ink. If it's swimsuit fabric, the outer layer will be coated with waterproof, most down jackets also have waterproof. Fabric with a waterproof layer will insulate some materials, as will ink. So, if ink color losing happens after heat transfer sublimation printing, it may be related to fabric materials and ink quality itself.