The first time you receive an order for 100 sublimation mugs, it feels like a big moment. And it is. For a small sublimation business, an order of that size can be genuinely exciting. It means someone trusts you with...

A sublimation print can look excellent right off the heat press. The colours are strong, the details are sharp, and the finished product looks exactly as expected. Then, a few weeks later, something changes. The colours no longer look quite...

Every heat transfer business reaches this point eventually. The heat press that has been part of the workshop for years starts behaving a little differently. It takes longer to reach temperature. One corner of the platen seems hotter than another....

Everyone has their own way of working. One person likes to prepare all the artwork first thing in the morning. Another prefers to print an order as soon as it comes in and press it straight away. Some people keep...

Almost every sublimation business starts in roughly the same place. There is usually one printer, one heat press, a small collection of blanks and a workspace that might be a spare room, garage, workshop or even part of the kitchen...

There's no shortage of advice on improving sublimation printing. Search for almost any sublimation problem, and you will find an article explaining how to avoid ghosting, bleeding, fading, colour problems or poor transfer results. Plenty of information covers temperature, pressure,...

When you run a sublimation business, keeping costs under control is part of the job. There is nothing wrong with looking for a better price on sublimation blanks. In fact, if two products perform equally well and one costs less,...

Lately, I've noticed something while looking through quite a few UK vinyl cutter listings: 2,000g cutting force is being used as a major selling point on an increasing number of machines. It's an impressive number. If you've had a few...

If you work with sublimation printing, you have probably heard one piece of advice more often than almost any other: “Use the correct ICC profile.” For someone new to sublimation, that advice is not wrong. In fact, getting the right...

You have just finished sublimating a T-shirt. You lift the heat press, peel away the transfer paper, and immediately notice something is not quite right. The design looks a little faded. It is not a complete disaster. The image is...