The sublimation dye is activated with heat, and, of course, you are shooting out hot plastic, so the image will transfer to the plastic. [Teaching Tech] explains the best settings to make it all work.

Consumables for dye sublimation printers generally cost more ... thousands of heating elements that produce varying amounts of heat. The hotter the element, the more dye is released.

The majority of printers use thermal or heat technology which will bake the sublimation dye right into the paper. Printers ...

The heat converts the ink into a gas and that gas dyes the poly those colors. Typically, it takes about 60-90 seconds and ...

Dye-sublimation printing uses an ink that vaporizes ... There is still an issue with discoloration from extra heat during soldering, so he advises in the instructions for the kit to take extra ...