Please be sure to sandwich your project(s) between parchment paper in your heat press. The ink can transfer to your heat press mat and come off onto other projects.
As someone who's tried sublimation myself, I know how frustrating it can be. For the print quality there should be a printer profile for the inks. You want your printer to always use that profile (even make a custom setting set to that profile for sublimation goods). They make "pillows" that you can use for sublimating items with thick seams though you may be able to make a nice thick parchment paper one. I also noticed that you weren't using a sheet over the items you were pressing either, that might have made a difference. Pressure is another thing that makes a difference too. Last year I tried to make puzzles and used too much pressure (nearly burned them). It can take a lot of trial and error but once you get a setting you like, write it down and make presets.
Thank you so much! That's a lot of useful advice! I do have the colour profiles so that's one thing I can mess with and both the paper and the ink are from the same company so thats got to help. I do think the pressure was wrong for the little bag it felt to loose so that might be an easy fix. Definitely one of the most frustrating and disheartened crafts I've tried! 😂
Different sublimation blanks will give you different colors once pressed so printer settings for one type of blank will not all ways be the same for each blank even if they seem like the same material. I have sublimated mouse mats same size and feel but from two different manufacturers they have came out different colors
Very true! The plan was to make a bunch of mugs, I was just testing the colours on the little disks first so I didn't waste a load of mugs, glad I did since they were so far off the right colours!
I hate when you print something and it’s come out slightly different! I’ve started a notebook where I just solely write down printer & computer settings for various papers and materials. 😅 I don’t do sublimation so unfortunately I can’t help but I hope it all works out soon 💜
Printers are the worst! That's not a bad idea! I might have to start my own book! Sublimation is even more frustrating since the printed colours are so different once pressed so it's impossible to tell until you waste a blank heat pressing them :/
This looks so good, what a fantastic video ☺☺
As always thank you so much! 😊 ❤️
Please be sure to sandwich your project(s) between parchment paper in your heat press. The ink can transfer to your heat press mat and come off onto other projects.
As someone who's tried sublimation myself, I know how frustrating it can be. For the print quality there should be a printer profile for the inks. You want your printer to always use that profile (even make a custom setting set to that profile for sublimation goods). They make "pillows" that you can use for sublimating items with thick seams though you may be able to make a nice thick parchment paper one. I also noticed that you weren't using a sheet over the items you were pressing either, that might have made a difference. Pressure is another thing that makes a difference too. Last year I tried to make puzzles and used too much pressure (nearly burned them). It can take a lot of trial and error but once you get a setting you like, write it down and make presets.
Thank you so much! That's a lot of useful advice! I do have the colour profiles so that's one thing I can mess with and both the paper and the ink are from the same company so thats got to help. I do think the pressure was wrong for the little bag it felt to loose so that might be an easy fix. Definitely one of the most frustrating and disheartened crafts I've tried! 😂
Different sublimation blanks will give you different colors once pressed so printer settings for one type of blank will not all ways be the same for each blank even if they seem like the same material. I have sublimated mouse mats same size and feel but from two different manufacturers they have came out different colors
Very true! The plan was to make a bunch of mugs, I was just testing the colours on the little disks first so I didn't waste a load of mugs, glad I did since they were so far off the right colours!
I hate when you print something and it’s come out slightly different! I’ve started a notebook where I just solely write down printer & computer settings for various papers and materials. 😅 I don’t do sublimation so unfortunately I can’t help but I hope it all works out soon 💜
Printers are the worst! That's not a bad idea! I might have to start my own book! Sublimation is even more frustrating since the printed colours are so different once pressed so it's impossible to tell until you waste a blank heat pressing them :/