Fake dye sublimation test

Color profiling is easier in Dye Sublimation than in standard ink jet printing.

false

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

Dye-Sublimation can be done on any plain substrate.

False

Because there are so many variables in sublimation printing, times and temperatures are just starting points

True

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

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

Adhesive transfer

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

Time, pressure, heat

What brands of photo panels are the most popular?

Chromoluxe, Dynasub

What are the two requirements of dye sublimation?

It must be cotton and it can have blends

Which of the following is NOT an application for dye sub?

car wraps

The _______ the poly content, the _____

Higher, higher the image quality

What is the advantage of AOP over Cut and Sew?

less process in production

what is the number one sold size of heat press in the world?

16” x 20”

how many milliliters of ink are in a complete set of ink?

8000

Dye-sublimation printing process is primarily used to print on _______ or other synthetic fabrics.

polyester

Dye-sub photo printing has been used in ________, graphics art proofing, security, and board cast related applications.

Medical imaging

Many consumer and professional dye-sublimation printers are designed and used for producing _________ prints.

photograph

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

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

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

solvent

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

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

trade fair

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

electrostatics

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

konica

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

aqueous

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

images won’t peal, crack or fade

How is the image printed on the transfer sheet?

wrong reading

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

heat

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

storage conditions

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 resistant tape to secure your transfer sheet to the substrate

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

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 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 inkoutside of the image area.

ghosting, gassing out

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

transfer line

how are transfer lines prevented?

all listed answers

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

the bright side

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 heating

___________ 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

_______________ 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 does ICC profile stand for?

International color consortium

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

The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a ____ model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

subtractive color

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

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

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, temperature and pressure setting including: surface texture, _________ surface color (shade of white,) substrate conductivity, heat press variations such as accuracy of temperature.

surface size

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

remove the transfer sheet immediately

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

1/4

To secure the substrate to the transfer paper you must use

heat resistance tape

Because the sublimation ink permeates the substrate this makes printing on dark colored substrates 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