WHAT IS SUBLIMATION?
When completed, the image on the paper has been transferred to the fabric . now you can run your finger across the surface of a sublimated garment and you will feel no printing marks only the fabric.
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Sublimation is always done on a polyester, polymer, or polymer-coated item, in the case of team uniforms 100% polyester garments. At high temperature, the solid dye vaporizes into a gas without ever becoming a liquid. The same high temperature opens the pores of the polyester fabric and allows the ink vapor to enter. When the temperature cools, the pores close and the gas reverts to a solid state trapping the ink into the fiber of the fabric. It has now become a permanent part of the fabric.
This is why dye sublimation can’t be done on natural materials, such as 100% cotton. Natural fibers and non-coated materials which have no “pores” to open cannot accept the gas vapor. The ink particles are designed to bond with polyester, and ignore everything else. It is like trying to mix oil and water with most natural materials.
A DYE impregnates color into a material and this color change is permanent. SUBLIMATION refers to the change from the solid, to the gaseous state without becoming liquid.
SUBLIMATION refers to solid dye particles that are changed into gas using heat and pressure, which then bond with any polymers present and change back into a solid.
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Dark materials cannot be used with the sublimation process so all of our dye sublimated apparel starts out as solid white fabric. Garments decorated with a dye sublimation transfer cannot be removed like images on shirts decorated with screen printing. Again, this is not ink that sits on top of the fabric; it is a dye that penetrates the fiber of the fabric. This is why all of our dye sublimated team uniforms are guaranteed to never fade, crack or peel.
