How does Dye Sublimation Printing Work?
Dye-sublimation is a process of creating photographs by a printing technique that diffuses dye onto paper. This dye comes in the form of a ribbon and is converted into a diffused gas when heat is applied. The dye is then absorbed by a special receiving layer on the paper. A special print head warms to various precise temperatures and creates different levels of colour depending on the amount of heat produced. The print head in the Hi-Touch consumer printers is capable of producing 256 levels of each color (cyan, magenta, yellow) and thus able to create a total of 16.77 million true colors by combining these three primary colours. With a special over-coating layer, the dye layers are sealed into the paper and the image is protected against UV light, fingerprints, and even water! There is no smudging, running, or blotching; prints are dry and ready to touch the instant they come out of the printer!
