Sublimation paper“Fast dry”or “Quick dry”

Large size sublimation started to gain popularity later on, but initially sublimation transfer was only really used for modest productions. However, there is a difficulty with the production efficiency; although the sublimation printers/plotters could print extremely quickly, the fault caused the sublimation paper to not dry entirely in time, slowing down the manufacturing process. In order to aid in the dye sublimation paper drying more quickly, the maker of sublimation transfer paper began to conduct research and update technology, particularly the sublimation coating formula. Now that the issue has been resolved to perfection, all sublimation paper available on the market is the "fast dry" or "quick dry" variety. 

So today, we will try to explain this technology with all the sublimation users. 

Sublimation coating is a functional part of sublimation paper, it plays several important roles at the same time, like absorb the sublimation ink, separate the sublimation dye and the base paper to prevent the sublimation dye from penetrating into the base paper, and absorb the water in the sublimation ink. The third function is the drying process. 

The sublimation coating process includes a component called the "water removal layer" that aids in the paper's drying after printing. Since we employ water-based sublimation ink, water serves as the carrier. The sublimation transfer outcome won't be as nice as you had hoped for until the water has evaporated and all of the sublimation dyes have remained at the surface. For this reason, we constantly stress that the sublimation paper must be entirely dry before transferring it; otherwise, the transfer outcome will be poor as the wet paper prevents the sublimation dye from fully transferring to the cloth. 

Then how the “water removal layer” works ?  

The water removal layer has a mass of two to three grams. It could be insufficient or excessive. If it's too little, the paper dries very slowly because it can't absorb the water or solvent in time. Additionally, there can never be too many balls because if there are too many, the balls will absorb the sublimation dye after soaking up all the water or solvents. This will prevent the sublimation dyes from being transferred, which will lead to a poor transfer outcome. One kind of sublimation paper we have is called "instant dry," and it dries more quickly than the "fast dry" variety.  but the transfer efficiency is not as good as “fast dry”, is because the water removal layer is more than 2-3 grams. That’s how it works . 

With this beautiful solution, all our sublimation papers don’t have the drying problems, including our tacky sublimation paper 100grams. On the other hand, more and more clients are using the high speed MS JP4 ,MS JP7 or Reggiani with jumbol roll paper 1000mts, 3000mts, our fast dry sublimation paper 100gsm also works pretty good. Now in china, there are 7 MS JP7 printers, they are all using our sublimation paper 100gsm, 1000 meters per roll. If you want to have a try, contact us directly ! 

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