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Our local Wilko's had a new budget A4 paper in this week so I bought some. I only bought it to print out some leaflets to hand out at markets and craft shows.

At £3.75 for 500 sheets it's cheap enough.

It's a bit quiet today so I thought I'd see what it was like as a sublimation transfer so got one of my old sub-standard mugs out to test it on.

Looks pretty good. Certainly good enough for mass market items which uses vectors or artwork rather than photographs or complex colour gradients. I haven't tried it on a lot of items or with photo reproduction but it's good to know I've got a cheap stand by if I run out of 'proper' sublimation transfer paper

The mug is from signwordz - I could not use it normally because of some iregularities and discolouration inside the mug - cooked in a heatpress for 180 seconds.

Out of interest, what is the GSM of the paper?

I use Tesco's paper for my high vis (black only bang em out sort of thing). It works very very well, but as it is so thin you have to have a sheet of grease proof paper on top. My calculation meant that slows the whole process down by about 48 vests a day.

May not sound like a lot, but on a production line it is as that is almost 250 a week.

SG

it's 90gsm so not too thin.

I think tesco's and the standard wilko budget paper is normally around 60gsm.

There was no bleed through in the mug press but cannot say about clothing and heat presses.

buying regular cheap paper saves you about 10p per 3 mugs, - but do you need to use more ink to get saturated solids?
Colour profile?
Or more time in the clamp?
48 vest is £5quid of paper saving, but if you need to use greaseproof ....
Is it genuinely worth it?

logobear;132152 wrote:buying regular cheap paper saves you about 10p per 3 mugs, - but do you need to use more ink to get saturated solids?
Colour profile?
Or more time in the clamp?
48 vest is £5quid of paper saving, but if you need to use greaseproof ....
Is it genuinely worth it?

What prices are you basing that saving in Logo? Tesco cheap paper is £3.50 (might be £3.75) for 500 sheets. That equates to 0.007p per sheet. The cheapest I have found is around the £6 for 100 sheets meaning the same amount of paper would be £30. It might not seem much but when you are doing 20k plus a year it adds up. Although you have inspired me to revisit the set up


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Well I never knew you could use standard paper for sublimation!

Costco has HP 80gsm - 5 reams for £13.18 inc vat. Works out at just under £2.64 per 500 sheets - never used it for sublimation, but it's bright white and goes well through a riso.
Cheers John