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Sublimation – The Truckers Cap Decoration Solution

Oh no, it’s back – the dreaded “Trucker’s Cap”.  Many veteran apparel decorators remember the challenges of putting logo’s on this unique style of headwear built around a polyester foam front panel.  The polyester aspect made it difficult to screen print, as traditional inks wouldn’t bond properly and the foam aspect made it an extreme nightmare for embroiderer’s due to stitches sinking into the fabric.  It was a happy day when the Trucker’s cap finally hit the road and left town.  But what goes around comes around and this particular product is back in the spotlight, racking up the dollars in retails sales while wracking the brains of decorators scrambling to find a reliable and reasonable decoration application.

Believe it or not, there is a relatively simple solution: sublimation!  The poly foam front is the ideal platform for sublimation printing, as the dyes easily penetrate and bond with the polyester fibers, yielding vivid, full-color images without distortion.  And unlike other forms of printing, sublimated designs will not fade when washed, which means sustainable image quality over the life of the product.

The cap sublimation process is exactly the same as for any other sublimation substrate, with the only difference being that you will need a heat press designed for caps.  Just create the design with your favorite graphics program, print it out onto transfer paper using SubliJet or ArTainium sublimation inks, then apply it with your cap press.   Total print press time is less than two minutes and the ink and media costs are in the $0.50 range.

Sublimated Trucker’s Caps – quick, simple and profitable!

Jimmy Lamb, Sawgrass Technologies

For additional info on How to Sublimate Caps – Read This Article by Impressions Magazine

The New Age Of Digital Heat Transfers

For many, the word “transfer” conjures up visions of a rubbery-looking, printed patch of sorts that is applied to a garment with a heat press.  Besides looking cheap, such transfers have a tendency to crack and peel after one or two washings, and thus have developed a bad reputation.  But it’s a brand new day, and high quality digital transfers have entered the marketplace and put the transfer of yesteryear out to pasture.

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.