sublimation

Thanks FireMalt

I have a customer who wants 200 letter L decals to go over fire dept. lock boxes throughout the city. The L's are 1.5-2 inches high and will be cut in red reflective vinyl. No install, just cut, weed and mask. I was thinking $1.50-$2.00 but not sure. Any advice is welcome. Thanks, Len

I am looking into buying a versalaser. We are in the process of adding this service to our sublimation and vinyl work business. They all have to do with personalization. I know this is not the right section and not even the right forum but I'm sure some here have experience with these machines and any input (experience, versatility etc.) would be appreciated. Thanks

This looks like http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/goudy-heavyface/heavyface/ The caps look to me like they have been hand altered.

This is awesome! I have tried to find this coating but I either had to order a 50 gal. drum from China or 1 gal. from Australia (and they wouldnt ship to Canada.....Great Find aries :P Monster Coat: (sublimation polyester coating) works on: Wood, Stone, Bisque Ceramics or Raw Ceramics, Clay, Marble, Cement, Fiber Glass, Leather and any other type of porous material. Our sublimation coating is a great way to create your own blanks for sublimation printing. Our Coating creates its own glaze and is only designed to go on raw substrates (THIS IS IMPORTANT)..HERE IS URLhttp://sublimationcoating.com/index.html

OK, now I'm thinking of getting a laser printer for my transfers. Right now I use Paropy light and Dark transfer paper and an epson 1280 with CIS dye ink. I don't like the quality to much but it works. What laser printer do you have Nonabelle and which one do you recommend? My wife has been wanting one for years to do altered book transfers ? But up until recently they were to expensive. (we also use a 1400 for our dye sub IQ ink but thats a different story)

This is free and has a flower over the i. You could probably combine it with something else to get the desired effect. Or, just use areiel bold and put a flower jpeg over the i http://www.dafont.com/blomster.font

This is NOT it....but very close... http://www.dafont.com/black-chancery.font

I don't know if you have bold garamond but if it will do, I sent it to you in your gmail email. If you outine it, it may e wide enough garamdb.zip garamdb.zip

This is as close as I could find http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/aviation/midas/regular/

After going to the cutter window, hold down your control key and select each color

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/pristina/ Yes it looks like a varient

Ariel bold is a good all around font. Easy to read easy to weed it can also be rounded and italicized to give a totally different look. Mostly though, i give the customer the choice but steer them away from fine datailed scripty font. It's pretty but hard to weed and read.

Sublimation is good for 1 up orders up to a few. Our customers like the feel of sublimation as it has no feel but for large orders it is to expensive. The ink bags are $200 per bag and a good sub printer (we use the epson 1400) uses 6 bags. unisub.com gives price costs per transfer. The micro polyester ts are also expensive at around $9.00 per shirt and you can only sublimate on light colored ts. Cost to the customer is $29-35 per shirt. The bonus is though, that you can sublimate on more than 100 different products. That is why we got into vinyl for large orders. We can offer our customers $11-$15 shirts. We were thinking of getting into screen printing as well but we dont have the room for it.

I have found that unrolling my tape sticky side up the lowering the decal onto it makes for wrinkle free tape.