Nowadays, sublimation digital printing technology is more and more widely used in the clothing industry. It has obvious advantages over traditional screen printing and other technologies, so it is becoming more and more popular. Many new to the industry are asking what kind of fabric should use sublimation transfer printing. In fact, sublimation is not only the problem of fabric ingredients, dyeing process of what is also a very important reason. Specific must pass test sample ability to know.
But in general, sublimation can be transferred to the following materials.
Polyester Fabric
Polyester fabrics, whether pure polyester or polyester products with high components, are dyed with disperse dyes,this disperse dye is easy to sublimate at high temperature, so it is one of the most suitable materials for sublimation printing. Mainly used in the production of cycling clothing, sportswear and other clothing printing.
Cotton Fabric
Then there is the common cotton fabric in our life. In general, cotton content more than 70% of the fabric is not suitable for sublimation printing, transfer rate is not high. This kind of cotton or pure cotton fabric is usually dyed with reactive dyes, which is not easy to sublimate, except for the second dyeing, or cotton fabric pretreatment, coated with pretreatment liquid for heat transfer printing.
Nylon Fabric
Nylon fabric is usually dyed with acid dye,mainly for mountaineering suits,down jackets,swimsuits.
Leather Fabric
Finally, leather fabric,mainly covers PVC, PU,used for luggage. General leather fabrics are not using sublimation.
To sum up, sublimation fabrics are mainly polyester, polyester and cotton blended fabrics (with cotton content no more than 30%), sportswear, silk scarves, chiffon, banner, etc. In addition, it can also be used in mugs, plates, metal and other materials, but need to be pretreated, surface coating, so as to do sublimation transfer printing.
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