Sawgrass Introduces New Sublimation Ink – SubliJet-E Professional

SubliJet-E Professional is high-performance sublimation printing ink optimized for the Epson Stylus Pro 7700/9700/7890/9890 series inkjet printers.
This advanced formulation offers amazing color and run-ability on Epson’s latest TFP Print Head.

Conveniently packaged in High Capacity Pressurized Sealed Cartridges, SubliJet E Professional is part of a turnkey solution including powerful and easy to use color management software and full technical support for unsurpassed ease of use and peace of mind.

SubliJet-E Professional High Capacity Sealed Cartridges Deliver:  

• Amazing Color and Excellent Run-ability
• Extended Uninterrupted Printing, 250ml cartridges
• Improved Up time
• Reduced Maintenance
• Rapid and Easy Changeover
• Pressurized to Ensure Reliable Ink Delivery at all Print Speeds

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Choosing A Printer That’s Right For You!

While expanding out a decoration-comfort zone by adding desktop digital processes is a positive step to take, there are plenty of decisions in order to do it right. Technology has made it easy to bring inkjet fabric printing and/or sublimation in-house via the digital transfer process. Theoretically, all that’s required for the job is graphics software, a printer, inks, paper and a heat press. But since most in this business already have a suitable a heat press and software—Photoshop or CorelDraw for example—the real consideration is the printer.  Read more…

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Sawgrass Minimum System Requirements

Thinking about upgrading your computer?  Before you make your purchase read this first!

The minimum and recommended system specifications for new printer platform/driver solutions have increased dramatically. Sawgrass continually assesses the minimum system requirements needed to run each of its desktop systems. As technology continues to advance for printer platforms, computers, and graphic software, these requirements are more critical than ever for optimum performance. Through our product development process and testing we have found there are effects of using computer systems and graphics programs that are below the minimum recommended system requirements.  Please consult with your distributor to ensure that you have an adequate computer system to effectively run not only the printer, but your chosen graphic software programs as well…Read More

Watch & Learn! Adobe Illustrator Basics for Digital Decorator

In case you missed a live webinar, Sawgrass provides the webcasts for you to watch anytime, anywhere!

Check out this webcast trailer on Adobe Illustrator Basics For Digital Decorator.

To view the entire video click here! It’s a one time registration that will give you full access to all of our past webinars.

Garbage In = Garbage Out

High quality sublimation starts with high quality images, but somewhere along the way, that message seems to get lost.

However,  it’s really a  simple equation: garbage in = garbage out

As great as the sublimation process is at printing high resolution, finely detailed, full color images, it can’t convert bad images into good ones.  So what is the ideal resolution?  That’s a tricky question, as resolution is tied to image size.

In general, most Sublimators and Digital Decorators prefer artwork in the 350 dpi range for the size of the given application.  Keep in mind that increasing the size of the image will reduce the dpi. For example, if you were printing a 4” x 4” tile, then the image needs to be 350 dpi at 4” x 4”.    If your image was 350 dpi at 2” x 2”, and you increased the image size to 4″ x 4″ to use for the tile, the resolution would decrease by about half, which probably wouldn’t be acceptable in terms of visual quality.

Bottom-line: size does matter!  It should also be noted, that dpi only applies to raster or bitmap images.  Vector art on the other hand is resolution independent, meaning that resizing does not affect image quality.  The only limiting factors become the abilities of an output device such as a printer.

If a customer cannot get you the quality graphic that you need, do not be afraid to ask for another or turn the job down. Remember, “garbage in = garbage out.”  To learn more about the importance of quality graphics click here.

And for more information on preparing images for sublimation and cotton transfer printing, download a FREE copy of the Sublimation 101 e-book.

Sublimation Basics – Image Mirroring

There is nothing more exasperating than to have a picture perfect press job, only to discover that the lettering on the final product is backwards.  With sublimation you must always mirror the design when printing.  It may seem like a backwards approach at first, but when you think through the production process it really does make sense.  Remember that the image is only on the paper long enough to transfer it over to the substrate. Thus, as it leaves the surface of the paper and bonds to the substrate, the orientation of the final image will flip or “mirror” that of how it was on the paper.  If you mirrored the image when you output it to the printer everything works out fine. 

Spot Color Driver – New Color Management Software for Epson 4880 Makes Printing with Specialty Sublimation Inks a Breeze

Sawgrass has recently released Spot Color Driver Color Management Solution for SubliJet IQ Specialty Sublimation Ink Colors for the Epson 4880 in the US and Canada.

Spot Color Driver works in concert with Sawgrass CYMK and Specialty Sublimation Inks providing a simple solution for incorporating exciting Fluorescent Pink and Yellow accents and discrete Blacklight Blue images into sublimation designs. Utilizing a simple Click and Fill Spot Color Replacement Process, Spot Color Driver is easy to use and eliminates the cost and complexity of RIP software for most applications.