How To Sublimate Tumblers With No Ghosting And A Perfect Seam

hi everyone in today's video I am going to show you how to sublimate a tumbler with no ghosting and a perfect seam so let's get started [Music] okay so I've already printed out the design that I'm going to use and I uh elected to use a dark kind of a darker design that way you can see that you're still going to get a nice looking tumbler with no ghosting and a perfect seam I read a lot about people having trouble with uh like darker color tumblers so it's not going to matter if the what kind of your design is if it's light dark or black you're still going to have a nice looking tumbler with a perfect seam and I'm going to show you how to do that so this uh this size here is 9.3 by 8.2 I printed this out on my uh Epson f-170 printer I like that printer because I get the truest colors so I'm going to go ahead and trim this down just trimmed off the white part as close to the edges as I can and I use this Carl rotary trimmer I just love this trailer I mean it makes trimming so easy and you can cut like just tiny little slivers it's it's very accurate so I'm going to go ahead and just trim this down just like this just all I did was cut off the white paper around the edges now what I do next is I make sure that the design is going to fit the tumbler now I do print it just a little bigger because I want to overlap about a sixteenth of no probably about an eighth of an inch I like it doesn't have to be perfect but I'd like to have around an eighth of an inch overlap so obviously you're going to turn it I turn my tumblers upside down like this remember to turn your image upside down a few times I've forgotten right yep yep so it happens every now and then I get in a hurry everybody's probably done it but turn your tumbler upside down your image upside down and then I just kind of wrap it around just to make sure I don't have too much overlap and like I said that's about an eighth of an inch but you can see it's just a little too long right here I like to come up to like just before it curves around the bottom of the tumbler so I'm going to just trim off just a little bit and like I said this uh trimmer will trim thinly and accurately I'm just going to trim off probably about an eighth of an inch I mean that's how thin it can trim okay so let's try this now that is just perfect see that on the camera it's not going around the edge and it's stopping right there before the the Curve okay so once I have this size properly the next thing I want to do is put some tape on the edge the front The Edge that's going to be on the tumbler for me that is on the on the right side on dark tumblers you don't notice it as much but when you have a an eighth of an inch overlap the ankle bleed from the top of the top overlap through the bottom overlap and you'll see like a little seam where the ink is bleeded through to prevent that what we do is we take some tape and run it down the edge of the design so if this was a light colored design it would you would really notice a big difference but the dark colored designs you don't really notice a big difference but I just want to show you how I do this anyway so you want it just up to the edge of the paper just like this where the tape is not going to get it's not going to touch the tumbler but you want it on here so that when the top layer is over this when the other side of the paper wraps around it's over the ink doesn't bleed through the paper to the bottom layer and then you'll have that like Blurry looking overlap I'm going to take this knife and I'm just gonna cut this need a sharper knife I gotta order some new blades but cut this like that now when I put this on here upside down because my tumbler is upside down and I wrap this around I have this tape on this side so when I overlap it with this side it doesn't bleed through this bottom Edge right here so there's one secret okay now I'm going to show you how to tape this I usually just hold it them like this I use this dispenser right here and I start in the middle just half and half squeeze it nice and tight and push it around tape it get another piece not a big long piece like that sometimes this doesn't cut like it's supposed to like this and I go up close to the top squeeze it around hold it down like that then at the bottom same way it doesn't have to be perfectly half and half but so that's how we start then I'm going to use my tumbler stand that I've made and this is nice for tape and tumblers it holds them in place it doesn't let them roll around and I actually sell these on my Etsy store so just something that you would be interested in I'll put the link to my Etsy store on here and you can purchase one from me and you have your own logo or whatever yeah I can put your own logo on there it's free it's for free it's free uh uh personalization but anyway so this makes it a lot easier for me to put this on here it doesn't roll away then I'm going to take a piece of tape and I'm going to run it half and half over that seam where the paper meets and then I just cut a little bit so it's around the bottom just like that kind of pull it tight and I just run my thumb down it like this and fold it over at the top so I fold it over at the bottom and I fold it over at the top and just kind of smooth it out now take your thumbnail and just kind of go down this seam right here just like this now if you don't have a thumbnail sometimes my thumbnail breaks I use a cap off of um I use this cap off of that exacto knife and I just used the corner of it I just run it down like this I mean you can use anything you want really but the idea is to just kind of like get this smoothed out then I turn the tumbler around now you're going to have another seam line which is the paper underneath that you can't see so we're going to find the edge of that and it's right there see that I don't know if you can see it on the camera or not but I found the edge of the other seam right there then you're going to run your thumbnail or your plastic lid or whatever you're using to kind of get that pressed up against the tumbler just like that and if you don't have a thumbnail you can just use something like this and now I don't know if you can see it or not you should see a seam about an eighth of an inch I try not to go much bigger than that you know you can go a little smaller if you want to I don't know if you can really see it or not but there is a scene down there about an eighth of an inch wide maybe a little bigger so we've already smoothed out both sides now I'm going to tape the bottom so I set it on here like this I take get my tape and I place it on here at half and half so it's half on the paper half off and then I just wrap it around just like this it doesn't have to be perfect once I get back to the seam I just drop down and I do another wrap around like that until I get back to the seam and then I cut it then I smooth it out I fold over the bottom like this and then I just take it on a flat surface and then I just kind of help smooth it out a little bit by Rolling it around that way you have the bottom taped just like this now we're going to do the top same process just place the seam up facing towards you and then start half and half like that like I said don't have to be perfectly half and half as long as you've got some to fold over once you get back drop down and then go around again until you get back to the seam cut it off kind of smooth it out like this fold it over and then you can smooth it out again on a flat surface like that so here's what it looks like taped like I said we have both sides of our seam and you can actually see the seam line right there you should be able to see both sides we've done the bottom we've done the top now what we need to do is shrink wrap this now I've read a lot of people don't shrink crap and I do I just don't want to take that chance we tried not doing it and we don't like the outcome yeah I think I tried without shrink crap and sometimes the paper when you tape it doesn't get tight enough so you might have a little bit of space between the paper and the uh the tumbler and it ghosts I mean it's not bad but you can still kind of tell there's a little bit lighter on the design so I do use shrink wrap I mean it doesn't cost that much and it's not that hard to put on there and I just put that on there like this I've got a heat gun which is way over here for some reason and you don't want to get too close just kind of stay about six inches away I just start put your shrink wrap beaten it up with the ends and then just go over it a little bit and get some wrinkles out of it if you get too close you're gonna melt it a little bit just make sure I got it just like this okay so now we are ready to put that in the convection oven now if you're using a tumbler press you can still tape it the same way I just showed you just don't use the shrink wrap but you can tape it and put it in your tumbler press just like I showed you how to tape it okay so we use this KitchenAid convection oven when we first got this and I made a video about a year year and a half ago we were using 350 for five and a half minutes but in the last few months or maybe about six months ago we noticed that we were getting ghosted in and seam lines and it was because we made over a thousand tumblers in this and I think it lost some of its um heat capabilities so we increased it to 380. for seven and a half minutes is what we'd bake our tumblers at now and they just come out perfect now every convection oven is going to be different so yours you may not 380 at seven and a half maybe too much or you might do 370 at six I mean it's something that you have to experiment with depending on what type of convection oven or air fryer or whatever you're using but after several tries and you will waste a few tumblers we found that 380 for seven and a half minutes is perfect for us so just because that's the temperature I'm using doesn't mean that that's going to work for you and your convection oven okay so when this heats up we'll put our tumbler in there and we'll continue from there okay so um like I said we said our oven to 380 first and we bake our tumblers for seven and a half minutes so I can't really set this to seven and a half so I wait till it gets close to seven and a half and then I put my tumbler sideways in the middle of the oven because they're too tall to stand like this so we're gonna go ahead and put this in there and I'm going to turn it halfway at three out at three minutes and 15 seconds so we'll go ahead and pick it up from there okay so I said earlier three minutes and 15 seconds but I made a mistake it's actually three minutes and 45 seconds which is halfway for us on their seven and a half minutes so we're getting close to halfway and I'm gonna go ahead and turn this you can see my heat shrink wrap is melted just a little and we're gonna go ahead and let this finish and we'll continue from there all right we're almost down to uh seven and a half minutes and um we'll go ahead and set it off take it out of here and uh what I do is I draw I take this and submerge it in room temperature water so I'll be right back okay so here is our tumbler it did the shrink wrap did melt a little bit right here and uh we used to have some really good shrink wrap but unfortunately the company that doesn't that sells it doesn't sell it anymore so now I'm dealing with this shrink wrap that sometimes melts and sometimes doesn't so if you have any suggestions on shrink wrap that doesn't melt I'd greatly appreciate it but I uh when they get done in the convection oven I do submerge our tumblers in room temperature water I've done that for a thousand over a thousand tumblers maybe 2 000 and I've never had one crack or break or leak just don't submerge them in ice cold water then you have that chance of the uh losing the vacuum seal or cracking on the inside so I'm gonna go ahead and remove the shrink wrap and uh we'll continue from there at the end of the shrink wrap all right I got the shrink wrap off and we're going to remove the uh sublimation heat tape the way I wrap these I know exactly how to unwrap them like this and then you reach inside you just pull that down like out then we'll take a look at the results here so there's paper stuck up there and down here so I'm going to get a wet rag and I'm going to wipe that off so you will get a little bit of paper that sticks to your tummer and all you have to do is take a wet rag and just kind of go over the tumbler and we'll see how this looks and dry it off it doesn't hurt to wipe off the paper with a wet rack so here 's the top there's absolutely no ghosting along the top that's clouds right there here's the bottom and here's our seam line look how clean and sharp that is nice clean sharp seam line you don't have any bleed through on the seam line and it's perfect every time using this method I'll show you the last one I did just so you know what's not and here's the last one I made same results no ghosting perfect seam line works every time so hopefully this video will help you with your tumbler sublimation and that you have learned something and you no longer will have ghosting and some nice seam lines if you have any questions or comments please comment in the comment section like subscribe and um I have plenty of other videos If you like this one you may like another one that I've made and uh hopefully uh your toes will look great from now on have a nice day thanks foreign [Music]

Channel: Snazzy Moon Designs

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Length: 19min 44sec (1184 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2023