Full Version: sublimation -ribbon

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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