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    Sublimating on coloured polyester

    Hi,

    I have searched for this but not seen any useful info on it and you guys did a great job with my previous question.

    If I want to print onto pre-coloured poly shirts, will it be a case of the colours getting merged so if I print yellow onto blue it will come out green etc.

    I have a client who wants coloured tops.

    I have only just started this hobby and white is all I have used so far.

    Any tips or help is always appreciated.

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    Hello,

    Nice to hear that you have entered the wonderful world of sublimation. Sublimation works best on white polyester. Colored polyester will affect the results. Wouldn't recommend it.

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    Your predictions are correct, as you are dying the fabric rather than printing on top of it, so sublimate blue on a yellow t-shirt will give you green, etc.

    So, light coloured fabrics can work OKish, but you can't dye something lighter - so you won't really see the results of sublimating onto a black polyester. Conversely, you can sublimate black ink successfully onto coloured polyesters.

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    Make a colour chart and print onto coloured poly to see how each colours appears on the fabric being used.
    It will take an hour or so to do.
    I have attached a pdf of the one I made which you are welcome to use. You might want to check that the rgb values in each box open to the same value in your software.
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    There are a lot of videos on YouTube about this showing the colour differences.

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