Beyond Paper: Opportunities in Specialty Printing

However, he adds, dye-sub means dealing with technology that’s less than accurate when compared to building color profiles in a solvent printer. “A lot of times it’s hard to build a profile printing to a piece of paper, and then heat transferring it into a material and trying to read those colors,” says Prawdzik. “It becomes a little bit difficult because, depending on whether you do it at 400, 405, or 395 degrees, that color changes, so it’s not as accurate as what most people are used to. It’s a low-cost point entry, but it’s a high-complexity entry as well.”