I've been messing today with some colour change mugs I bought from signzworld. They work but the quality was not what I thought it might be. The image below the colour fade is pretty visible when the mug is cold. I tried them at 180c for 180sec (worked but I thought poor quality), 165c for 150 secs (also worked but again I thought poor quality. Not sure why a longer setting is important in this case so if anyone could explain that would be great) and as suggested on a youtube vid 160c for 50 secs (far too quick for my press). I've checked the sublimation guide in the downloads section and it suggests 180c for 180 secs but thats on xpress mugs.
Does anyone have a decent setting or do you think it's just that the mugs I'm using are probably crap. Its no big deal I just had half a dozen to try so wanted to see what the results would be. Mind the image of the xpress mug (shown below) does show the image outline below which is pretty much what I (just about) see but on a black mug so am I being too fussy? I haven't got an image of the ones I produced. I'm using an ST-210 double mug press which I have to say that although dirt cheap has been great so far and is more than good enough for the white mugs I've done (so far).