Is it possible to print a white backgound with screen printer, and then sublimate a full color image onto the white background. Would it be possible to do cotton t-shirts this way?
I would like to be able to print a full color image or a black, or cotton t-shirt without getting a DTG printer. I have a screen printer, heat press, dye sub printer, and a vinyl cutter. DTG is just too big of an investment for as small as the job is.
I would like to be able to print a full color image or a black, or cotton t-shirt without getting a DTG printer. I have a screen printer, heat press, dye sub printer, and a vinyl cutter. DTG is just too big of an investment for as small as the job is.
Thanks for the help
Using technology I’m not aware of, it might be theoretically possible. However, the results would be very poor and not even equal to a heat transfer.
Since you have a vinyle cutter, maybe there is a polyester heat vinyl you could use. It sounds like it is probably just going to turn out to be a dark transfer material.
Does your plotter have an optical eye? if so, you can have the cutter trim your transfer after sublimating. That's what I do with my Ink heat transfers. I have not done it with my sublimation system due to increased cost but it should be the same. All you need to do is mount your dark transfer paper or polyester vinyl (if there is such a thing) to a carrier sheet or backer sheet and plot out your cut.
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Since you have a vinyle cutter, maybe there is a polyester heat vinyl you could use. It sounds like it is probably just going to turn out to be a dark transfer material.
Does your plotter have an optical eye? if so, you can have the cutter trim your transfer after sublimating. That's what I do with my Ink heat transfers. I have not done it with my sublimation system due to increased cost but it should be the same. All you need to do is mount your dark transfer paper or polyester vinyl (if there is such a thing) to a carrier sheet or backer sheet and plot out your cut.
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Even if there were a vinyl that could be transferred to, it would never take the 400* heat of sublimation.
Good luck, in your quest, but I think, as we sometimes say in Tennessee, "that dog don't hunt".
White background for dye sub? 
