Talk me through sublimation

[Rockers]

This is something that might be forced upon us due to the fact that one of our big clients wants to include sublimation into his regular line of baseball merchandise. What do I need to get started in sublimation. Have a heatpress already. What else. I guess it depends all as well on the size of the sublimation, right?

[sweetts]

Get the largest printer you can if you can print a little larger then your heatpress you will save yourself a lot of trouble. It's all about time and temperature, to get good transfers, remember to print every day or risk troubles, I dumped my stuff, I was not using it a lot and puking more ink than printing with ink. You can order sublimation transfers and avoid buying new equipment if it's hit or miss work.

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[jantexinks]

As far as equipment it is really easy, all you need is a dyesub printer and a heat press.  The thing you have to figure out is how big of a printer do you want/need.  Is this going to be a 8.5"x11" printer, a 24"-44" printer, or a 64" printer?

Once you have that figured out then you can work on what supplies you will need (paper & ink) along with a RIP software. 

I do agree with the above statement.  If this is not a solid gig, you may want to subcontract it to start with then purchase equipment once you figure out what your clients want.