Home made hoodie!

[Brandon Downey]

So I got my wife a sublimation printer for Xmas and I just had to try it out! Turned out awesome!

 

[jsousa515]

Cool great job


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[Mastiff Rider64]

Nice, when she getting to work and making some to sell?? LOL

 

[Jwooky]

“sublimation printing “, new for me tell us about it.

 

[Brandon Downey]

So sublimation is a special type of ink that transfers to clothing, wood, or even metal when heated. The printer is a normal printer but with refillable ink tanks instead of replacing ink cartridges. You buy the sublimation ink and fill the tanks with that instead of regular ink. Then you take a picture of your motorcycle or anything you desire or maybe pull a few logo images from the internet and print them (don’t forget to “mirror” the image or your exhaust ends up on the wrong side lol). Then you use a heat transfer iron (regular clothing irons don’t work) and 35 seconds later the image is transferred and you have a cool shirt or hoodie. I doubt we’ll sell shirts because of the copyright laws and plus then my wife’s crafting hobby becomes a job and that takes the fun out of it.

 

[Brandon Downey]

Cool great job


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Thank you!

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

“sublimation printing “, new for me tell us about it.

Here's a good link describing sublimation printing https://www.contrado.com/blog/what-is-sublimation-printing/

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

So sublimation is a special type of ink that transfers to clothing, wood, or even metal when heated. The printer is a normal printer but with refillable ink tanks instead of replacing ink cartridges. You buy the sublimation ink and fill the tanks with that instead of regular ink. Then you take a picture of your motorcycle or anything you desire or maybe pull a few logo images from the internet and print them (don’t forget to “mirror” the image or your exhaust ends up on the wrong side lol). Then you use a heat transfer iron (regular clothing irons don’t work) and 35 seconds later the image is transferred and you have a cool shirt or hoodie. I doubt we’ll sell shirts because of the copyright laws and plus then my wife’s crafting hobby becomes a job and that takes the fun out of it.

Which printer are you using if I might ask?

 

[Brandon Downey]

Using an Epson 2720 printer. This printer doesn’t heat up in the printing process which messes up the heat transfer ink. We almost bought the wrong printer. I told the wife to do a quick internet search on a Cannon printer we were looking at and I am glad we checked before purchasing. Turns out that one gets too warm while printing.

 

[awg]

That really looks good.

 

[Rottweiler]

Awesome

 

[Mickmorris]

That looks awesome! Great job!

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

Using an Epson 2720 printer. This printer doesn’t heat up in the printing process which messes up the heat transfer ink. We almost bought the wrong printer. I told the wife to do a quick internet search on a Cannon printer we were looking at and I am glad we checked before purchasing. Turns out that one gets too warm while printing.

I've got an older epson 1800 that I've always been considering getting the sublimation ink for. Maybe this will be my trigger! (after I finish some other projects I have started)

 

[Brandon Downey]

Thanks everyone! I was super excited at how well it turned out! The sky is the limit with this thing! I made one for my Camaro too! Might not hurt to check online if the 1800 is compatible as far as the heat generated in the printing process.

 

[Biker Babe]

I’ve been using a Sawgrass printer for about 2 years. As you can tell by my subject matter, I use it mostly for creating fundraising items for my wildlife rehabilitation network.

 

[Brandon Downey]

That’s some cool stuff too! Crazy how technology has taken an entire print shop and essentially downsized it to just a printer and a heat press.

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

Thanks everyone! I was super excited at how well it turned out! The sky is the limit with this thing! I made one for my Camaro too! Might not hurt to check online if the 1800 is compatible as far as the heat generated in the printing process.

Appreciate the heads up, but I've known it would do sublimation since before I bought it. It was a higher end printer. Both it and my 7800(24" wide) will do sublimation. I'd be willing to convert the 1800(13" wide) to dedicate sublimation. It wastes a quite bit of ink to swap back and forth between normal ink and sublimation and if you need to do both normal printing and sublimation I'd look into a second printer -- cheaper in the long run.

 

[Jwooky]

Very cool thanks

 

[Brandon Downey]

Oh good deal, yeah we only use the Epson for sublimation printing and have a regular printer for the normal stuff. Good to know you end up wasting a lot of ink switching back and forth though, thanks.

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

Oh good deal, yeah we only use the Epson for sublimation printing and have a regular printer for the normal stuff. Good to know you end up wasting a lot of ink switching back and forth though, thanks.

Just think how much ink gets primed first time you use a printer -- have to clear all that out going back and forth.
It's why with my 7800 I do lots of matte stuff til I run out of matte black before considering going to glossy black!