1. Inkjet printers and
dye-sublimation
printers difference
between

2. The first term is the term
ink. Now, to the eye, ink
and dye appear pretty
much the same. They are
both liquid, and both are
printed using an inkjet
printer. In industry, the
printers are usually wide
format,maxing out
currently around about
124 inches, or just over 10
feet.

3. However, the
printing machine,
or inkjet printer,
does not see ink
and dye the same,
and they cannot be
interchanged once
a printer is printing
either dye or ink
without some
down time as lines
are flushed and
the like.

4. Inkjet printer ink is based on the CMYK color spectrum,
which stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black, and prints
down the yellow first, then magenta, then cyan, and
finally black. I have often wondered why it wasn’t called
YMCK instead, but maybe people would’ve confused it
with the YMCA,who knows.

5. An inkjet printer sprays fine dots of color, usually 300 dpi (dots-per-inch) up to 1440 dpi (unusual
because the printing speed is much slower and therefore costlier, and for most commercial
printing,the viewing distance makes it so you won’t see minor flaws that may be apparent at a
lower dpi.

6. Inkjet ink is printed on
the surface of an item
such as vinyl banner
material or vinyl decal
material,and chemically
“bites” into the surface
of those materials and
simply dries on the
surface of the vinyl
aided by heat and air
flow, or an ultra-violet
curing system that is
either built in or added
to the printer.

7. When converted to a dye sublimation printer, an inkjet printer
doesn’t need a high dpi print to be make a fabulous print
because the dye is printed on a treated paper called transfer
paper as a mirror image.

8. Once the image is printed, the dye dries quickly on the paper, then it is
joined together with a polymer based fabric usually polyester and is moved
to a heated pressure roller. As the material and paper are carefully fed
through the rollers, several things happen. First, the dye is converted to a
gas.Simultaneously, the heat causes the cells of the polymer-based fabric
or coating to expand and open up. The pressure from the rollers forces the
gaseous dye into the open pores, sublimating the dye into the pores of the
fabric, hence the term dye sublimation.?

9. More info pls visit: http://www.ink-
sublimation.com/
Company Name: Getwin Industrial
co.,LTD
Website: www.ink-sublimation.com
TEL: 86-025-83228884
FAX: 86-025-83228894
Email: sales@ink-sublimation.com

10. More info pls visit: http://www.ink-
sublimation.com/
Company Name: Getwin Industrial
co.,LTD
Website: www.ink-sublimation.com
TEL: 86-025-83228884
FAX: 86-025-83228894
Email: sales@ink-sublimation.com