Focus on Dye Sublimation
From rookie to renounced professional, there is a whole array of dye sublimation equipment on the market to suit every need. Below is a handy list of kit and services that bring the heat to this industry.
Hybrid Services New levels of colour
The new Mimaki TS200-1600 dye sublimation printer’s wide-gamut capability enhances its relevance to printwear, promotional products and sportswear producers. With fl uorescent yellow and pink inks, alongside extended orange and violet options, the 1.6m wide printer offers a broader colour space suited to corporate brand accuracy and more demanding design palettes. For printwear suppliers, this combination of fl uorescent and extended-gamut inks allows the use of high-impact colour while maintaining precise reproduction of brand tones. This makes the new printer particularly useful for fashion-led ranges, licensed apparel and uniforms where accurate colour matching is essential.
With sports and athleticwear manufacturers more readily specifying TS200-1600 dye sublimation printer
fl uorescent colours for team identity, seasonal collections and training ranges, the availability of neon and extended-gamut inks gives designers greater freedom to balance standout elements with accurately reproduced club or sponsor colours across full kit ranges. In the promotional products sector, the proven high quality 330 print engine found in the TS200 also provides the fl exibility to decorate both coated rigid items as well as polyester textiles.
Utilising Mimaki’s latest low-cost, Oeko-Tex certifi ed inks and supplied with a two-year warranty, the 1.6m TS200-1600 is available through Hybrid Services’ network of authorised partners in the UK and Ireland.
www.hybridservices.co.uk InkTec
Setting the standard in sublimation As demand for high-quality, consistent textile printing rises, InkTec remains at the forefront of dye sublimation innovation. With more than three decades of ink development expertise, the company’s SubliNova dye sublimation inks embody the precision, reliability and colour performance required today.
What sets its range apart is every formulation is researched, developed and manufactured in-house. This ensures uncompromising control over quality, colour accuracy and batch consistency. This rigorous approach is reinforced by InkTec’s Oeko-Tex Certifi cation, which confi rms that its SubliNova inks meet globally recognised safety and environmental standards - an essential requirement for apparel, sportswear and fashion production.
Perfect for a wide variety of printers, the dye sublimation ink range is compatible across the Mutoh, Mimaki and Roland printers which have Epson DX4, DX5, DX7, 5113 or EPS3200 print heads and are available in 1L bottles, with SubliNova Smart also available in 100ml bottles. More than 50t of dye sublimation ink is distributed each month to textile printers across the world giving them the scale, capability and reliability they need to meet growing demand.
SubliNova dye sublimation inks
The inks are engineered for outstanding transfer effi ciency, vivid colour reproduction and long-term stability, making them ideal for both high-volume industrial workfl ows and creative bespoke production.
www.inktec-europe.com
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