New to sublimation confused re colours etc

[Skye]

Hi Lianne

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Here are the CDR palette files for default rgb & Powerdriver's Colorsure palette.

I'm not sure if can upload the Colorsure palette on your version of CDR. If you can, then upload it, print the Colorsure palette ensuring the Colorsure box is checked in the printer preferences panel.

Karen

[liannef]

Hi Karen, thanks so much, as you seem to be a CorelDraw expert! do you how these people on ebay have added there designs to products so they look like they've printed the design on the item which I'm assuming they haven't as that would be a waste of stock. Here's one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Creeper-Penci ... 3a8f08fe52
Thanks
Lianne

[liannef]

I printed out the RGB colour palette on a starworld dry fit type t-shirt and picked my colours from that and have now just printed some designs on the teddy tops and the colours don't match the original pressed palette so printed out the colour palette again and pressed it on the teddy tops and the blue/cyan aren't very good. I ticked colour sure when using power driver and selected polyester, true pix classic paper (I'm using magic touch dye sub paper though) and have realistic and high res checked. If both palettes were printed on 100% polyester fabric then how can the colours change?

[pisquee]

If both palettes were printed on 100% polyester fabric then how can the colours change?

Just because the fabrics are both made from polyester, there are plenty of possible variations in the make up of these fabrics (including but not limited to the thread count, thread width, overall thickness of fabric, colour of fabric, weave/knit type...) all of these things can affect how well and in what way the fabrics take the ink.

We have a few rolls of polyester fabrics that we use for making up into different products. As part of R&D for new products/materials we do test prints on new fabrics to work out the temperature and times, and whether paper up, or fabric up works best. Once we've established that and noted it down, we then create a specific ICC for that material.

Printing to different materials/surfaces will give different results, so if you treat them all the same in the way you print to them, do't expect them to all come out looking the same as each other.

[liannef]

Hi, figured out what I was doing wrong! In power driver I ticked coloursure and ok and then pressed print whereas you need to press apply and then print! colours coming out perfect now and are more solid if you tick the saturated option. Just need to play around with temps and times so as to reduce shiney effect on fabric etc

[JMugs]

Hi Karen, thanks so much, as you seem to be a CorelDraw expert! do you how these people on ebay have added there designs to products so they look like they've printed the design on the item which I'm assuming they haven't as that would be a waste of stock. Here's one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Creeper-Penci ... 3a8f08fe52
Thanks
Lianne

That is more likely photoshop.
I use coraldraw for text and drawing hence the draw bit, then photoshop for the image placement on items like that hence the photo bit.

All good fun and a long exciting learning curve. Really the only way to get used to any the packages is Youtube and then play, and printing is print, record pressure and settings, change one thing, record etc. Time is the thing.

Janners