Why Sublimation Printing is Very Hot?

As a printing method, sublimation printing has been choosed by more and more people. Many people may ask, why sublimation printing is so hot nowadays? Today we will show you the reasons.

1. The cost

As we all know the basic fabric of sublimation printing is polyester. Polyester is the fabric which loved by many people, because it has beautiful colors. With digital printing, it can achieve a richer colors with various patterns.

2. The high cost-effective print heads

According to the research of 《Fashion Printing》，in the ITMA exhibition, the distribution ratio of the three main print heads is about: Epson 50%; Ricoh 15%; and Kyocera 12%.We can see from the statistics that the Epson print head is the most common print head in the market. Compared with Ricoh and Kyocera, Epson print head is cAnd for sublimation printing, Epson print head like DX5, TFp, DX7 and 5113 are more suitable for sublimation printing.

3. The cost of sublimation ink

For most high quality foreign customized sportswear, Italy sublimation ink is the common choice, because these customers are very concerned about the fluency and environmental friendliness of the ink, brightness, stability and color fastness are also important for them.

But the high quality sublimation ink only take up about 5% market share, the rest customers are using Chinese manufacture inks . For these ink, they are not as good as Italy ink like Kiian, J-teck, but can meet most customers’ requirements. And these inks make the cost of sublimation printing has been reduced a lot.