Dye sublimation heat transfer for tiles, textiles, glass, ceramics, T-shirts, coffee mugs, even floor tiles.

You can do dye sublimation heat transfer onto tiles and other ceramics, glass, wood, floor covering (flooring squares even rugs). Coffee mugs, mouse pads, and T-shirts are other popular items.

Four of the leading large format printers can be outfitted to handle dye sublimation inks. You have to use these special dye sub inks. As a result several of the more popular printers are inappropriate because they don't take aftermarket inks of any kind.

With the proper printer and inks you can decorate snowboards, helmets, gaming tables, table tops, tote bags, and even special material which you can have coated.

Heat presses such as the Astechnologies rotary heat-transfer printer or Rollo heat transfer machine, take care of transferring the image from the wide format printer output to the object you wish to decorate. To press onto the round surface of a coffee mug, for example you would select a heat press from George Knight or Hix.

We are still gathering information, so if you wish all the names-and-addresses of all the pertinent companies, just send an e-mail to the review editor and you will get back all the pertinent data on dye sub inks, heat presses, and other helpful tips. This information will also cover printing on textiles.

UPDATED: July 11, 2001