I've worked in the printing industry all of my working life (40 years) and have a lot of experience in screen printing, large format vinyl and large format flat beds etc....
I've been considering sublimation for some time now and thought I was aware of a lot of the pitfalls regarding buying cheap unreliable equipment with little or no backup but I've recently just joined a sublimation Facebook group which appears to have a sprinkling of a few long term, experienced users in amongst a large splattering of new hobbyists
The amount of posts regarding inconsistent results was a bit concerning
Obviously I fully understand that printing creates an amount of waste / spoils but in the main this can be put down to machine or operator error but the picture I was getting from the FB group was that there is inconsistency in the substrates
So to get to my question - is sublimation inconsistent even if you have got a reliable setup - can these inconsistent results be put down to cheap equipment, cheap blanks and lack of knowledge?