About Sublimation

Sublimation is the most impressive and detailed way to customise your performance apparel, allowing for endless design possibilities. Designs can incorporate any colour, gradient, font or effect that you can think of. Designs can go across seams, under arms, along waistbands - all while maintaining the wicking properties of your jersey as you go to work on the playing field.

How it Works

Sublimation is a process whereby ink is actually burned into the fibres of the garment, as opposed to the way ink is caked on top of the material in conventional silk screening. Your design is first printed on paper sheets, then applied to the garment using a heat press.

The technical benefits of sublimation are as impressive as the design capabilities. Once a design has been sublimated it will become part of the material. This means that the design will stretch with the fabric, it will allow sweat to wick through the design, and the image surface will not crack or fade over time or with repeated washing.

Full Sub vs. Spot Sub

Full-body sublimation involves sublimating panels of fabric before they are sewn together, which allows you to maximize your design space and incorporate every square inch of jersey in your design. This requires a significant amount of design attention, since the art must be:

• Situated on a jersey template
• Set up with each player number and name on the correct size
• Test pressed to ensure the colours printed match your expectations
• Printed onto large sheets of specialized paper, and then sublimated into the jersey material

Spot sublimation is a process by which your design is applied to a smaller area of a previously sewn white garment. Spot sublimation may be chosen over screen printing because you can effectively have as many colors as are in your logo (gradients and shading as well) without incurring the extra screen set up fees that would be associated with a multi-colored design.

The maximum area for a spot sublimated logo is 38cm by 38cm. You can put several spot sublimated logos together to achieve a larger look, but you should leave a gap in the design to allow for some flexibility in lining the artwork up on each jersey.

We can spot sublimate on jerseys and shorts in other light colours (not just white), but the design will take on the colour of the garment. For best results, stick to White, Ice, Lemon, Lime, Powder, Pink and Gold garments. Your VC sales representative will be happy to look at your art and give you some advice regarding colour choices.

Pricing

• Full Sub
• Spot Sub

• Garment Style	Classic SS	Classic LS	Goat Short	Bro Tank	Executive
  	£43.60/unit	£49.90/unit	£37.25/unit	£37.25/unit	£46.75/unit
  Sublimation Set-Up	£47.40/team order

• Logo Type	Small (up to 10cm x 10cm)	Medium (up to 20cm x 20cm)	Large (up to 38cm x 38cm)
  	£2.85/unit	£3.80/unit	£5.70/unit
  Name/Number Set-Up	£1.50/unit

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