Multi-station dye sublimation apparatus for pre-heating and for facilitating simultaneous sublimation cycles

A multi-station dye sublimation machine for infusing an image from a printed sheet to a substrate, the dye sublimation machine comprising:

• a rotatably mounted bed configured to hold the printed sheet and the substrate and pass through each of a loading and unloading position, a pre-heating position, a heating position, and a cooling position during a sublimation cycle,
• wherein the loading and unloading position is configured to receive the printed sheet and the substrate prior to infusing the image and allow a removal of the substrate after infusing the image,
• wherein the pre-heating position is configured to pre-heat the printed sheet,
• wherein the heating position is configured to heat the pre-heated printed sheet to sublimate one or more dyes forming the image, such that the one or more dyes travel to the substrate in a gaseous state and deposit into the substrate in a solid state thereby infusing the image into the substrate, and
• wherein the cooling position is configured to cool the substrate after infusing the image.