Sublimation

What are the three most important factors in the process of dye sublimation

Time, pressure, heat

When a dye sublimation transfer is pressed onto a substrate the ink turns into a gas and while in this state the colors change properties this makes using a standard color profile difficult. To fix this problem, many companies __________

Create their own custom profiles

In contrast, inkjet printers can vary the location and size of ink droplets, a process called ___________, but each drop of ink is limited to the colors of the inks installed

Dithering

During heat transfer, or sublimation printing, a design is transferred from paper to fabric using both heat and pressure for a specific amount of time, called ____________.

Dwell time

The original printers were an ________ technology using toners but now are generally large format inkjet printers using specially formulated Inks

Electrostatics

If a customer was producing 1000 sq/ft of fabric a day, and another customer was producing 1000 sq/ft a day of hard substrate which customer will spend more money on ink?

Fabric producer

Color profiling is easier in dye sublimation than in standard ink jet printing

False

Dye sublimation can be done on any plan substrate

False

____________ is when you end up with a blurry image, typically characterized by a shadow effect along or outside of the edges. ____________ is when you end up with a "burst" of ink outside of the image area

Ghosting, gassing out

How is the image printed on the transfer sheet

Wrong reading

What transfer paper do we recommend for producing fabric via dye sub

Adhesive transfer

What are the two requirements of dye sublimation

It must be cotton and it can have blends

After heat pressing the image on to the substrate you should ______________

Remove the transfer sheet immediately

Varying ______________ may have an effect on the moisture content of transfer paper

Storage conditions

It is best to cut the transfer material _______ larger than the finished piece

1/4

What is the number one sold size of heat press in the world

16"x20"

Because the sublimation ink permeates the substrate this makes printing on dark color sub states virtually impossible. To achieve the look of printing on a dark substrate,images will be designed to with a background color that cover the entire substrate and has the image incorporated with it. This is called ________

All over printing

As dye sublimation printers utilizes __________ to transfer the dye onto the print media that is a polymer-based surfaces

Heat

To secure the substrate to the transfer paper you must use

Heat resistance tape

Dye sublimation printing process is primarily used to print on______ or other synthetic fabrics

Polyester

How can you tell which side of the transfer paper is the printable side

The bright side

It is used for many applications such as _______ banners or table covers, t-shirts, bike uniforms , competitive swimwear, soccer jerseys and flags

Trade fair

What is a faint line in the fabric that corresponds to where the edges of the transfer sheet were located during pressing

Transfer line

Because they're so many variables in sublimation printing, times and temperatures are just starting points

True

In dye sublimation a combination of heat and pressure cause the sublimation ink to convert into a gas which then permeates and attaches to any polymer based fibers it comes in contact with.

True

Sometimes a "double image" results when the transfer moves across the sublimatable surface while it is still hot, usually when the press is lifted or while removing the transfer from the sublimation surface. This can be prevented by

Using a heat resistent tape to secure your transfer sheet to the substrate

How many milliliters of ink are in a complete set of ink

8000

A color model associated with the RGB (red,green,blue) method of representing color. Equal amounts of the primary colors will combine to produce the perception of white light

Additive color

How are transfer lines prevented?

All listed answers; reducing heat and pressure, using teflon pillows, using high temperature foam

The most popular type of ink ___________ dye sublimation ink for use in both desktop and large format printers

Aqueous

Most dye sublimation printers use CMYO (cyan, magenta, yellow and overcoating) colors, which differs from the more recognized ____________ colors in that the black dye is eliminated in favor of a clear overcoating

CMYK color model

Which of the following is NOT an application for dye sub

Car wraps

What brands of photo panels are the most popular

Chromoluxe, Dynasub

If you encounter lines of missing ink in your printouts, then you are most having banding issues, the most common cause of which is _______

Clogged print head nozzles

_______ is the art of adjusting color so that you can produce the best quality results on your substrate.

Color correction

___________ refers to the relationship between the color models of the system devices, such as scanners, monitors and printing devices

Color profile

The _______ the poly content, the ______

Higher, higher the image quality

__________ a cross platform (stored in the OS system level) specific set of information to convert color spaces between dependent and independent devices

ICC profile

What is an advantage to using dye sublimation over heat transfer printer

Images wont peal, crack or fade

Due to the fast development of digital textile printing, dye sublimation inks are becoming more and more popular in digital __________ printing on fabrics

Inkjet printer

What does ICC profile stand for

International Color Consortium

What is the solvent dye sublimation ink that can be used in XAAR, Spectra and __________ printhead wide format printers

Konica

What is the advantage of AOP over cut and sew

Less process in production

Dye sub photo printing has been used in________, graphic arts proofing, security and broadcast related applications

Medical imaging

Dye sublimation works by ________ the surface of the substrate with ink. Man-made materials such as nylon, certain plastics , and polyester fabrics contain polymers that when _______, enable the bonding of ink.

Penetrating, and heated

Many consumer and professional dye sublimation printers are designed and used for producing __________ prints

Photograph

Custom printer drivers are software programs that have color correction built into the printer control system. The most widely used driver is available from Sawgrass, it is called ________

Powerdriver

The dye sublimation inks are a pigment suspended in a liquid ____________, like water

Solvent

The CMYK color model (process color, 4 color) is a ___________ model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself

Subtractive color

Sublimation transfer is not an exact science. Because you can sublimate onto a variety of surfaces, you will need to take all of the variables into account when selecting time, temperate and pressure setting including: surface texture, __________, surface color (shade of white,) substrate conductivity, heat press variations such as accuracy of temperature

Surface size