Anyone Know How to Do Ceramic Tiles

[Peter Munday]

Rose, I thought tiles were produced using dye-sublimation, where you print onto paper and then transfer to the tile. The only plastic involved would be a protective coating on the tile that you would remove before transfering the image.

Peter

[Rose Poore]

Peter,

This is what I have Knight 14×16 Digital Combo Heat Press
DC16. This is what it came with **Shirt & Tile Attachment Included**

This is everything it can do:
T-Shirts
Caps
Ceramic Plates
Ceramic Tiles
Mugs
Mouse Pads
Paper Memo Cubes
Tote Bags
Jigsaw Puzzles
Lettering
Wood / Metals
Other Misc. Fabrics & Materials. I can do it with the T-shirt Material I just wanted to know what temp it would have to be in order to do the Tiles.

[Mike Grant]

Ceramics to my knowledge can only be done with dye sublimation which not only needs special inks and paper but specially treated tiles as well.
If you are trying to put t shirt vinyl onto the tiles you are definitely barking up the wrong tree. Maybe your supplier has misled you a bit by not explaining the different processes to you.

[Philip Hammerton]

Ceramics, tiles & glass as far as I know that require a permenent design on, need a ceramic paint / ink fired into the surface (like a pottery glaze) – ceramic inks & paints can be screen printed directly onto the flat surface of an object – alternatively ceramic ink/paints can be printed onto transfer overcoated/printed with a water resistant resin, then transfer can be applied to surface of tile/glass by soaking it in water, sliding it into place on tile – squeegee down & let it dry out – I guess then it can be fired into the surface of object about 600 -700 degrees centagrade – Again I guess a kind of furnace/kiln will be required – not too sure about heat press

Lazatran transfer paper could be used as a cheaper alternative but I’m not too sure of durability of patterns on tiles / glass

[Peter Munday]

Rose, the only items in your list that you can do with t-shirt material are , T-shirts and caps. The rest of the items need to be dye-sub printed, see this site http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/ it should help you out a bit.

Peter

[Rose Poore]

😀 Thank You all for all your help on this. The Company that I got The Heat Press never told me that Plates…etc was dye-sub printed. Glad I know that now before ever ordering any plates to do the other stuff.

Again Thank You All

[Andrew Bennett]

You can use laser transfer paper as well as dye sub can’t you?

[Edfalstrem]

I do ceramic tiles all the time. You must buy them from a dye sub supplier. I use a Epson C88 with dye subink and transfer paper. Lay the tile on the transfer paper, set press at 400 degrees, medioum to heavy pressure, 8 minutes or so. Make sure the bottom of the tile is UP, facing you.

[Mathew Gibson]

Hi all i recently bought a flatbed printer that prints directly onto tiles basically it prints onto anything that you chuck at it just my input cheers!