Our sublimation process empowers you to design and produce an unlimited range of unique, personalized garments, limited only by your imagination.
Quality and Vibrancy:
Experience unparalleled quality with vibrant, long-lasting colors that bring your designs to life. Our garments are colorfast, ensuring they retain their brilliance wash after wash, thanks to our advanced sublimation techniques.
Ideal for Any Quantity:
Whether you need a small batch or a large production run, sublimation is perfect for both. Our “IN HOUSE” design team ensures a seamless process without hidden setup or artwork charges.
Our Process:
Step 1. Design:
Start your journey with a vector-based design that perfectly reflects your team or club’s identity.
Step 2. Print:
Using specialized printers and heat-sensitive dyes, we imprint your design onto the garment fibers, ensuring a seamless fusion of artwork and fabric.
Step 3. Cut & Sew:
Skilled artisans meticulously cut out patterns and expertly sew them together, transforming fabric into high-quality garments.
Step 4. Production:
Approximately four weeks from the order date, your bespoke garments are ready for delivery, embodying the craftsmanship and dedication synonymous with Centre Ice.
Sublimated Uniform Examples & Brief Overview:
The basic dye sublimation process uses special heat-sensitive dyes to print graphics, text, and virtually any image onto special transfer paper. The paper is then placed on the pre-cut fabric pattern, and both are placed into a heat press.
When the heating cycle is completed, the image on the paper has been transferred to the item and has actually reformed into or underneath the surface.
Run your finger across the surface of a sublimated garment and you will feel nothing.
Why Sublimation Works:
- Sublimation is always done on polyester, polymer, or polymer-coated items, as the process involves converting solid dye into gas without becoming liquid.
- The high temperature opens the pores of the polyester fabric, allowing the gas to enter. When the temperature drops, the pores close, and the gas reverts to a solid state, becoming part of the fabric.
- This process can’t be done on natural materials like 100% cotton because they lack the necessary pores.
Key Advantages:
- Dye particles bond with polyester and ignore other materials, similar to how oil and water don’t mix.
- The color change is permanent since the dye impregnates the material.
- Sublimation refers to the change from solid to gas without becoming liquid, ensuring vibrant and lasting colors.
Limitations:
- Dark materials can’t be used since sublimation starts with white fabric.
- Sublimation designs penetrate the fabric, unlike screen printing which sits on top of the fabric.
This is why all our dye sublimated uniforms are guaranteed to never fade, crack, or peel.
Re-orders
Re-orders are super easy. On the inside collar of your jersey, there is a tag with a Centre Ice Number on it. This number is unique to your uniform. Simply provide us with this number, and we will handle the rest.
Example of Centre Ice Tag:
This is what your Centre Ice Tag will look like:
