• Sublimation Printing

  Sublimation Coating?

  Posted by John Wilson on 17 January 2006 at 11:50

  I’ve dug out my Epson 1290 sublimation printer and started using it again but I feel that when I’m printing onto ceramic products that the ink scratches off a little too easy…… is there any method of coating the ink after printing to stop it flaking soo easy?

  Thank

  Martin Forsyth replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andy Picton

  Member

  17 January 2006 at 16:39

  quote John Wilson:

  when I’m printing onto ceramic products that the ink scratches off a little too easy……

  This sounds a little strange John. The whole point of sublimation is that the dye becomes a part of the polyester coating of your imprintable product. If your image is flaking maybe it is the coating. Are you using a trusted supply of ceramics. I bought a box of mugs to try from a new supplier a while back and was very unhappy with the print quality. I blamed my inks at first and tried recalibrating and resetting the colour profiles but when I tried an old stock mug I realised that the new ones were behaving totally different. I’ve given that remains of that box away to an old folks home. Lesson learned!

  :doh:

  Dreckly

  Andy Picton

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  Martin Forsyth

  Member

  17 January 2006 at 23:52

  Hi

  shouldn’t scratch off – I also think the ceramics are suspect.

  I once had some mugs that were not correctly coated, and the ‘layer’ peeled off.

  Martin

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