Transfer Printing & Direct to Fabric Printing, How to Choose ?

For digital printing, there are many kinds of printing form, like sublimation transfer printing, direct to fabric printing, vinyl printing and so on. Today, we will tell you how to choose a suitable printing form form transfer printing and direct to textile printing.

  The biggest difference between transfer printing and direct to fabric printing is the printing media. Transfer printing needs to use printing on the transfer paper firstly. But direct to fabric printing can print on the fabric without any media. Then which one is suitable for you, here are some tips.

1. The image quality

   The big benefit of using a transfer process is image quality.With transfer paper, during sublimation, the ink doesn’t penetrate far into the substrate, remaining close to the surface. In contrast, direct disperse penetrates further into the fabric, which—much like inkjet printing on plain paper—means that fine detail is lost and colors become less vivid.

   2. The applications

  Another advantage of using a transfer process is that you can work with any kind of surface with a polyester coating: banners, mugs, flip-flops, you name it. For direct sublimation printing, it does have advantages for specific applications, especially soft signage, flags, and banners. The primary advantage of direct disperse for these applications is deep penetration of the ink into, and saturation of, the fabric. You do lose sharpness compared to transfer, but since signage and banners are viewed from a distance, so they may not need to be sharp.

  3. Counterintuitively

  Counterintuitively is also the advantage of transfer process, perhaps—it makes color management easier. In dye-sub printing, color profiles primarily focus on the transfer paper, not the final substrate.

   4. The costs

   The number one benefit of direct printing is the cost savings of not having to use a transfer paper. Direct sublimation inks are about the same cost as transfer-based inks, but you are often putting down more ink when using direct disperse, so depending on what you’re printing it may be a wash cost-wise. But generally, there are can be cost savings.

  No matter which kind of printing method you use, the most important thing is that you should know it clearly. 

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