Full color sublimation to 100% cotton
AssigneeGroupeSTAHL
InventorsMarko Jukic, Rodney Croes
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Abstract
A method for transferring an image to a fabric, including providing a recording medium; coating the recording medium with a specialty coating including a silicone release agent, a silicone emulsion catalyst, and a binder; printing an image on the recording medium including the specialty coating, the image being printed using a sublimation ink; adhering a powder adhesive to the image printed on the recording medium while the image is in a wet state; transferring the recording medium including powder adhesive and image to the fabric; and hot-pressing the powder adhesive and image to the fabric to adhere the powder adhesive and image to the fabric.
Claims17
A method for transferring an image to a fabric, comprising:
- providing a recording medium;
- coating the recording medium with a specialty coating including a silicone release agent, a silicone emulsion catalyst, and a binder;
- printing an image on the recording medium including the specialty coating, the image being printed using a sublimation ink;
- adhering a powder adhesive to the image printed on the recording medium while the image is in a wet or tactile state;
- transferring the recording medium including powder adhesive and image to the fabric;
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- hot-pressing the powder adhesive and image to the fabric to adhere the powder adhesive and image to the fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.