
A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a computer printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye onto materials such as a plastic, card, paper, or fabric. The sublimation name was first applied because the dye was considered to transition between the solid and gas states without going through a liquid stage. Thi...
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A type of continuous tone printing process a vibrant 300ppi colour print. The pixels are printed by a thermal print heat that sublimates (vaporizes) the dye from a coloured saran wrap like ribbon onto the dye-sublimation paper. The hotter the element on the thermal printed head, the darker the spots of colour
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A type of continuous tone printing process a vibrant 300ppi colour print. The pixels are printed by a thermal print heat that sublimates (vaporizes) the dye from a coloured saran wrap like ribbon onto the dye-sublimation paper. The hotter the element on the thermal printed head, the darker the spots of colour.
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