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It’s Best time to Start a personalization business it’s never been easier than this. In fact, dye-sublimation printing has helped many creators, makers and entrepreneurs like yourself to start businesses, manufacturing and marketing high-quality custom product. With a small setup, you will be able to have your own personalized merchandise shop up and running in no time. The Social Media helps You to extend the business.
Let’s look at everything you need to start your sublimation business!
01 – Sublimation Printer
The first and most vital is a sublimation printer. Choosing a Right Printer to fulfil application. Choosing the Right Sublimation printer depend on Printing size – 8-inch, 13 inch, 24 inch and more. The Epson Printer are most Compatible to use with Sublimation inks and are the most user-friendly printers for beginners, and you can start the operation very easily. Epson L130, L805, L1800, F530. Few Printer are affordable prices that enable you to Print on wide range of products such as mugs, coasters, Plates, Caps, T-shirts, mouse pads, and more.
#2 – 5 in 1 Heat Press or Mug Press
The second most important machine required is a heat press or a mug press if your personalization focus is mug printing. You Can Use the Home Iron to transfer with Transfer Paper (Explained in Next Article), a heat press is must to achieve high quality, vibrant and consistent print results in sublimation printing.
Now, there are a many option available for heat presses to choose but each with different feature, Quality, Durability, and you can be quickly overwhelmed by the prices. But don’t get trap with Price Tag! The main is the size of the surface where you place your products. A larger platen allows you to customize larger products.
As a beginner, particularly if you are choosing for the A4 printer for Sublimation, you will find that the 5 in 1 Heat Press machine will allow you to print most of everything you can market. If you are planning larger format sublimation products then a larger Heat Press need to be used.
If your focus is ceramic coffee mugs or water bottles (make Sure the blanks are sublimation Coated), you will want to invest in either a mug press.
The 5 in 1 machine is perfect to start, as it’s able to press a many sublimation blanks as of mugs, bottles, sipper etc
#3 – Ink-Well Sublimation Ink & Sublimation Paper
Now with Epson printer you will receive a full set of inks, but it’s always beneficial to keep an extra set of ink on hand. The Right sublimation inks is required to Achieve the desired Results. Ink-well Sublimation Paper gives you a transfer Rate of 98 %. The more Vibrant colour and high Transfers.
#3 – Sublimation Blanks
Now You have Sublimation Printer, Suitable inks and the best quality Paper and the Heat press machine and now you need some blank products to start printing business. A very important thing is that only products that are made of polyester or have a special polyester coating can be used.
#5 – Computer Knowledge
The last thing you need to start your sublimation business is a computer and design software will help in a great deal. Your computer does not need to be techie it just needs to be able to run whichever design software you use. Examples of design software include Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator or Corel DRAW
Are you ready to start your sublimation business? Need advice on where to begin? We are happy to point you in the right direction and answer all of your questions! Let us help you grow your business the right way – right from the beginning.
Wow very informative and helpful to the ones just starting with this business. Indeed, how I wish I knew these when I custom sublimation shirts business.
I would like to add here, from my personal experience, in regards to hiring professional designer. Yes that was my biggest mistake when I first started. I didn’t learn basic graphic designing and using some software. It cost me a lot with the overhead and my budgeting failed cuz I missed to count the outsourcing of a graphic designer. It really do cost you a lot and do eat up in your profit. My best advice is, do your graphic designing yourself. It is hard at start but worth it and it’s an upskill for yourself.