Thermal transfer paper is coated on the surface of ordinary paper with a layer of wax, rosin and other adhesive film, if you add some luminous material in the paper surface coating, it is called luminous Heat Transfer Paper. With an ordinary ink printer can print a pattern on the surface of the film, at a certain temperature can be melted off the paper base, even with the ink transferred on the substrate, generally used for deep-colored textiles (such as black T-shirts), equivalent to A layer of patterned adhesive film is adhered to the clothes surface.

Sublimation special ink-jet printing paper must use Sublimation Ink. During heating, the ink sublimates away from the paper substrate and penetrates into the fabric or coating. The surface will not form a film, so the hand feeling and visual effects of the pattern are much better than those of ordinary Ink plus transfer paper method. The American heat transfer paper on the market is the use of sublimation ink to print on this type of paper, which is very popular because of the special effect of the transfer.

Comparison drawing of residual ink after thermal transfer between imported sublimation special inkjet paper and ordinary color inkjet paper