Sublimating Football Shirts ......?

[AdamB]

Hi all,

I'm suprised that I couldn't find anything about this (or is it me?).

Anyway - I've subbed a few cool tex tops with amazing results as these are 100% polyester and someone (family member) asked me earlier if I could put a football number and names on the back of a football top.

Well, these are 100% polyester (most of them are) so surely they would sublimate also and byt doing these you could add a splash of colour.

Has anyone sublimated football tops?

Adam

[John G]

Hi Adam,
Yes, I did the back of my Newcastle top - i'd just bought it and was quite new to sub printing, lets say my heart was in my mouth. I cannot remember the temp but I gave it 50 seconds and it came out quite well but I think I should have left it in longer as the blacks and light blues where a little light. Maybe try the same time as for hi viz vests.

Cheers John

[AdamB]

Thanks John - I'm quite suprised that no one else has mentioned this as you could 'theme' the back of the shirt to match the colours of the shirt.

As an example - yours could have had red/white numbers to match the colours (oops sorry, that's the mackems!) lol

[John G]

Red and bloody white

The results were good and i'm well pleased with it - I think the new NUFC strips are black on the back so that would rule out printing one.

[accdave]

Red and bloody white

The results were good and i'm well pleased with it - I think the new NUFC strips are black on the back so that would rule out printing one.

On a similar note does anybody know what happens if the shirt is 85% polyester and 15% elastane ?

I've been asked to put a logo on some next week, it's 2 colour so my first thought was sublimation as the way the logo is vinyl would be a lot of faffing about.

Not much time to experiment, the shirts will arrive on Monday and have to be ready for a 3pm kick off at a football league game the following Saturday, no pressure there then

[Andrew]

They should be fine Dave. Printed quite a few cycle tops and the like with no problem. Just done a compression/skin top as well which I think was 10% elastane which printed well. 190 for 50secs did the job.

If they are standard football tops then I wouldn't have thought they have such a high elastane volume. Printed lighter coloured football tops many a time with great results..

[accdave]

If they are standard football tops then I wouldn't have thought they have such a high elastane volume. Printed lighter coloured football tops many a time with great results..

They have been made specially for the players themselves, hence the high elastane volume. Feel terrible to me but you know what these prima donnas are like