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  • Dye sublimation on to stainless steel

    Posted by angela on December 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Hello,

    I am wanting to print onto stainless steel, I have tried with just using the paper but it wont stick on to stainless. Do you have to put anything on the stainless so the print will stay on the s/s.

    Any help would be very grateful.

    Thanks
    Angela

    angela replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Earl Smith

    Member
    December 8, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Dont forget, the Stainless Steel MUST have a polyester coating to make the sublimation work. Ive not seem S/S for sale for subli but I have seen Aluminium.
    Earl

  • Graeme Harrold

    Member
    December 8, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Stainless is a "premium" material mainly for longevity outdoors, where as dye-sub has a much shorter outdoor life. Therfore you have a miss-match of materials and processing.

    If you want to use stainless, screen print, etch or engrave it………..

  • angela

    Member
    December 9, 2009 at 10:32 am

    Thanks for you help.

    Thanks

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