Can I only print onto white T-shirts and polo shirts with sublimation ink?
• A. The sublimation process works best on white or light colour garments. It will not work if you try to print a yellow onto a black T-shirt as you simply will not see the printed item. You cannot print in white ink so you cannot print white text onto a dark garment. There are specialist papers that allow light colours to be transferred to dark garments and these transfer the white of the paper onto the final product. The downside of this is that is difficult to cut out complex patterns to avoid transferring lots of whiteness of the paper as well as the image. This tends to work best when you have a square, rectangular or straight edged image that you are transferring. The white of the paper will sit on top of the fabric and not inside the fabric like sublimation ink.
