Sublimated tape – 2022S

The sublimated ribbon is a personalized Adifafe quality tape, where the customer can create personalized, tailor-made designs. In addition to the tape, we also have zippers and sublimated elastics available. Sublimation is the technique by which a digital image is transferred to a polyester fabric/tape through high temperature and pressure. With this technology, a clearer, more detailed and colorful image is reproduced. The sublimation process is a technique that uses heat-sensitive inks, which transform into gas when subjected to certain temperatures, and fuse with the fabric, most commonly polyester. The main advantage is that the ink will become part of the structure of the printed material, and this means that the color does not fade when washed.

Others advantages of using sublimation:

– Quality: The quality of the printing makes the fabrics have an impeccable finish, without color changes or flaws.
– Customization: Allows adaptation to any customer need
– Resistance: Sublimation marks the object in the chemical process making a fixation in the desired material, through the interlacing of the ink with the pores of the fabric, which allows an adhesion with a lot of resistance.
In general, Sublimated allow customization to any color and image, including engraving of text, image and logo or even color spectrum effect, like the Cord we present here.

How was the sublimation process discovered?

Sublimation was discovered by Nöel de Plasse while working at a French textile company called Lainère de Roubaix, creator of the magazine Mon Tricot. He realized that some textile dyes could go directly from solid to gas at temperatures above 190°C. As he worked in a printing (or dyeing) process, he could observe this transformation and called it sublimation.
The sublimation process thus became the basis for transfer printing, also known as dry printing.