• Sublimation Printing

  Dye Sub Tiles

  Posted by Justin Mann on 15 April 2008 at 14:34

  Can anyone recommend a spray coating to protect the surface of glossy dye subb’d tiles?

  Also, I have been looking at software options to split a picture into sections for a Mosaic effect, i.e. 2 rows 6 tiles etc. and wondered what anyone else uses to do this. I know you can split the picture in Photoshop but I was looking at things like Split & Tile which seem very good, my only consideration is allowing for the small gaps in between the tiles when fixed to the wall.

  Thanks in advance!

  Justin 🙂

  Steve Underhill replied 17 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Steve McAdie

  Member

  15 April 2008 at 14:52

  Hi Justin,
  This may be of interest to you. I had a look at it when it was version 7 sounds like it may be what your after.
  http://www.noveltycentral.com/

  Steve

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  Calvin.Turner

  Member

  16 April 2008 at 00:08

  Hi,

  I’ve used photoshop for doing mine so nothing new there.
  What is it you are wanting to protect them against?

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  Justin Mann

  Member

  16 April 2008 at 08:02

  Thanks for the replies. I used Photoshop to slice the image which works well and then just copied each section out, size of the section seemed a little too large but that was prob. my fault. I read a tutorial that suggested saving for web and this put each slice separately into a directory, this was very useful but couldn’t handle very large files.

  Customer asked about the scratch resistance of the tile surface as they seemed easily scratched. They will be used as a kitchen splash-back. I guess UV resistance could also be a problem so maybe frogjuice or something might help?

  Cheers,
  Justin 🙂

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  Steve Underhill

  Member

  16 April 2008 at 08:39

  Dye sub ink never seems to fade.
  Not on anything I put in the window anwyay, its been in there 2 years with direct sunlight on it.
  This is placemats and coasters and mugs.

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  Justin Mann

  Member

  16 April 2008 at 08:45

  Cheers Steve. I’ve been led to believe that Subli ink will fade in UV after 2/3 years. We get very long days here in the summer, thus greatly increased amounts of UV. I was told to expect 6 months before fading started.

  I think it’s one of those try it and see situations. I can’t see the tiles being in direct sunlight.

  Justin 🙂

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  Steve Underhill

  Member

  16 April 2008 at 08:53

  I actually thought they would fade but they havent yet, maybe after so long they will but everything else in the window did but those.
  Time will tell.

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