Full Version: sublimation -ribbon

From: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#1]
 20 Apr 2006
To: ALL

Does anyone know if you can sublimate ribbon. If so, what is the source to pruchase the ribbon.
Thanks,
Larry

EDITED: 20 Apr 2006 by DGL

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2]
 20 Apr 2006
To: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#1] 20 Apr 2006

Try a craft store or a fabric store. They carry polyester ribbons that sublimate extremely well. On DSSI there were people mentioning the minor problems and solutions of subbing nylon ribbon also.

If memory serves, the nylon shrunk a little bit and needed to be pre-heated to stabilize it. Check on DSSI just to be sure on the nylon.

From: John (ICTJOHN) [#3]
 20 Apr 2006
To: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#1] 20 Apr 2006

Larry,

I hotstamp ribbon, so I have naturally tried to sublimate it as well. I did not like the result, it was blurry. If the customer wants smaller ribbons, like to put inside of garments, then I just use regular t-shirt transfer paper in my laser printer and apply. the glue on the paper gives it a little more body (but not stiff).

From: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#4]
 20 Apr 2006
To: John (ICTJOHN) [#3] 20 Apr 2006

Thanks for your help. We'll try polyester and see how it works.
Larry

From: Rose (RSLIEPKA) [#5]
 22 Apr 2006
To: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#1] 23 Apr 2006

I have subbed ribbon that I bought from Scher Ribbon (White only) and believe it or not, I have printed ribbon by running 3 at a time thru my regular inkjet printer. I did 1,000 per month for 9 months for the school district. Worked great! On the ones that needed to hold up long term, I sprayed them with Krylon.

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#6]
 22 Apr 2006
To: Rose (RSLIEPKA) [#5] 22 Apr 2006

Rose,

This is interesting. It sounds as if you were at the genesis of the direct printing industry. :-) 

How did you feed the ribbon through your printer? Did you attach them to a thin carrier sheet?

From: Rose (RSLIEPKA) [#7]
 22 Apr 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#6] 22 Apr 2006

I laid the ribbons out in Corel on a regular sheet of typing paper. 3 across. Then I printed out onto the paper just the outlines. I did this on about 10 pieces of paper. I cut the ribbons longer than what I needed and taped them to the paper with a tiny piece of double sided tape very near the edge of the top and bottom of the paper. I deleted the border of the ribbon layout from the drawing, put the sheets in the feeder tray and printed. In my drawing I made a very small line across the top and bottom where I would cut with the pinking shears. After printing I would pull the ribbon off and leave the tape on the paper. I could re-use that little piece of tape a lot of times without having to change it.

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#8]
 22 Apr 2006
To: Rose (RSLIEPKA) [#7] Unread

Rose,

By the powers vested in me, I hereby declare your innovative and daring feat, as "Out of Box Idea" for the month. :-) 

Nice!

From: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#9]
 24 Apr 2006
To: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#1] 25 Apr 2006

Denali makes a ribbon for use with sublimation.
www.denalico.com

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