Sublistar calender heat press is an affordable, easy to use a rotary heat press for all your dye sublimation paper transfer and direct-to-fabric applications. The sublistar’s intuitive design makes for quick, easy use, maintenance, and cleaning, thus saving time on production. Solid, all-steel construction provides high-quality performance and ensures heat press is built to last.
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For your growing business, so does the urgency to retire that old iron and invest in a quality calendar heat press machine. Heat press machines use heat and pressure to imprint a design onto a substrate. A heat press can apply graphics on a variety of different materials like fabric, leather, ceramic, etc. The design is first printed on specialized heat transfer paper using a solvent ink. This ink is designed to transfer from the paper to the item when pressed with heat. Read on for five reasons why a heat press is better than your iron.
Sublistar roller heat press applies at a much faster rate than other methods of shirt printing. This is due to fewer steps, preparations, and less of a learning curve. As you get more familiar with your heat-press, the digital timer will become your best friend. The timer is set depending on the type of fabric being used and will beep when the heat transfer is complete. While the heat press is working it’s magic you have time to set up the next shirt. Thus making the printing process faster and more efficient.
As we can see that one of the most important variables when applying transfers to fabric is pressure. With that old iron, the level of pressure applied can be hard to measure. This becomes problematic when the manufacturer suggests a certain number of pressure. Even worse, if you push too hard or for too long your garment might scorch. After all, iron wasn’t made for doing heat transfers. The perfect pressure can mean the difference between a shirt that has peeling vinyl letters after five months and a smoothly adhered shirt that lasts years.
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Calender heat transfer is the most cost-effective garment decoration method for small quantity orders. The unit cost per garment is unmatched in the printing industry. This allows customers to order just a few items here and there without the cost ballooning.
When you have numerous orders, pressing the images in different stages can be a hassle. The size of your iron plate is only 5×3 inches — and that’s if you purchased a wide end model! It might work pressing the transfer on in stages, but it definitely is not time efficient or ideal.
Many products require a specific temperature to press on, like cotton, polyester, spandex, and blended fabric. The dial on irons clicks between linen, cotton, wool, silk, etc. It doesn’t have the option to select a specific temperature, therefore you never really have an exact idea of how your iron is getting. Not knowing the exact temperature may result in melting and scorching, or areas not getting hot enough to properly adhere to the ink.
With a sublimation calender heat press, the temperature can be manually set. This ensures that temperature is always spot on for all your garments, no matter the fabric. Just set the temperature and timer and go!
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It’s good to be optimistic, we have to tell you that the process is a bit complex, needing careful planning if the results are to be great. The careful planning we’re talking about here especially concerns the time and temperature of the heat press. For the transfer to look good, the temperature needs to be set correctly, and the amount of pressure applied needs to be right.
Apart from that, you need to know whether to remove the carrier paper hot or cold. Deciding on all these factors can be a bit overwhelming particularly when you want the results to be faultless. But, with this handy heat press temperature setting guide, you don’t need to worry at all. We’re going to look at the correct heat and temperature when applying a heat press to different materials as follow:
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a). Matte PU Vinyl
Temperature –(135-145 °C)
Time – 10-15 seconds.
Pressure – 3-6KG/Mpa.
Peel- Warm/Cold.
b). Metallic PU Vinyl
Temperature –(135-145 °C).
Time – 10-15 seconds.
Pressure – 3-6KG/Mpa.
Peel- Warm/ Cold.
c). Hologram Vinyl
Temperature –(135-145 °C).
Time – 10-15 seconds.
Pressure – 3-6KG/Mpa.
Peel- Warm/ Cold.
d). Glitter Vinyl
Temperature –(145-160°C).
Time – 15-18 seconds.
Pressure – 3-6KG/Mpa.
Peel- Hot/Cold peel.
e). Flocking Vinyl
Temperature –(167-175°C).
Time – 18-22 seconds.
Pressure – 3-5KG/Mpa.
Peel- Hot/Cold peel.
f). Reflective Vinyl /Luminous Vinyl / Chameleon Vinyl
Temperature –(135-145°C).
Time – 10-15 seconds.
Pressure – 3-6KG/Mpa.
Peel- Hot/Cold peel.
g). Sublimation Paper- Transfer onto Polyester
About polyester, you can set a temperature of around 225 °C and set the time to just about 30 seconds. Peel the sublimation paper when warm or cold.
h). Sublimation Paper-Stretchy Materials
If the material you’re heat pressing has a lot of stretches, for instance, a swimming costume, set the temperature to around 180°C and apply the heat press for around 40 seconds. Peel the sublimation paper while cold.
i). Heat Transfer Paper for Cotton Dark
Cotton is one of the most widely-used fabric because, in fact, 75% of men’s clothing are made of 100% cotton. When applying transfers to a cotton apparel with dark color, you need to use more time as shown in these guidelines:
Temperature –165°C
Time – 25 sec
Pressure – medium
Peel – when hot/Warm/Cold
j). Heat Transfer Paper for Cotton Light
Cotton is one of the most widely-used fabric because, in fact, 75% of men’s clothing are made of 100% cotton. When applying transfers to a cotton apparel with Light color, you need to follow shown in these guidelines:
Temperature –185°C
Time – 15 sec
Pressure – medium
Peel – when hot/Warm/Cold
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