Sublimating travel mugs. Advice please.

[Chris-P-Midlands]

I am about to do 2 travel mugs for teachers presents. I have not produced travel mugs before, Would the settings be the same as ceramic mugs, or,... hotter, not as hot, longer/shorter time? etc. Any help / advice would be greatly apreciated.

The travel mugs I am using are:
Aluminium,
Silver (poly coated, specific dye sub mugs)

Using standard mug press ( I am told that this will suffice)

Tia.

Chris P

[webtrekker]

I don't do travel mugs either, but I sublimate aluminium sheet at 190 deg C for 60 seconds and it prints well.

[Chris-P-Midlands]

Yeah I do ali sheets too, and get great results. I guess whats throwing me with the travel mugs is that they have a clear poly coat, as oppose to the white of ali sheets etc.

Thx anyway. I think I will use the ali plate settings.

CP

[webtrekker]

I've printed Silver and Mirror Silver ali sheets, as well as the white ones. They come out good, with the same settings, but remember that dyesub inks are semi-transparent so the aluminium shows through to some extent, so you may want to make your colours more vibrant. Black seems to print particularly well though.

[Mrteajunkie]

I did some of these myself a few days ago.
settings used: 180c for 50 seconds and all went fine for me.