Beyond Paper: Opportunities in Specialty Printing

For sublimation, “You have to buy the specially coated materials,” adds Prawdzik. “For metals, it’s sublimated, so you’re sublimating or ‘dyeing’ into that metal polyester coating.”

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Because it’s usually a polyester coating that’s put on items to make them sublimatable, and UV inks like to adhere to polyesters, Copeland says a lot of items that are sublimatable are also UV printable.