I think I’d like to sublimate a photo onto white matte board. It seems like it should be possible. Anyone have experience with that? Thx.
Sublimation is a polimer based dye.
Paper itself won’t take the dye, but there are many options that will.
How large is your finished dye sub print?
Here are my thoughts:
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Use matte white mylar stencil sheet. Mylar/duralar will take sublimation. I have used this in clear/gloss Mylar and it has come out beautifully.
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Prepare the mat board at home with a dye sub spray, bring to dms and dye sub as usual.
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Use a matte dye sub fiber board. (Available at Johnson’s plastics plus, etc…)
My objective is to have something I can laser cut that will be thicker than photo or scrapbook card. Size is 5" x 7". I can always print a photo and glue together a bunch of scrapbook card but I’m trying to avoid having to do that.
I will investigate the options you’ve suggested. Thx!
The sublimation fiber board is laserable.
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