Because our surface today is a t-shirt we're going to place the EasyPress Mat inside the shirt and protect the mat with a sheet of protective paper.

Make sure the protective paper is larger than the print itself to make sure no ink transfers onto the mat. Sublimation is permanent, if it gets onto your mat it can transfer to future projects ruining them.

Next, we want to pre-heat the fabric. Pre-heating removes wrinkles, shrinks any fabric that may shrink with heat and removes moisture.

Moisture is an enemy to sublimation so make sure you pre-heat long enough to remove any moisture. Even if you think your shirt is wrinkle-free and dry. Don't skip the pre-heat.

With the fabric pre-heated go over it with a lint roller to remove any dust, hair, or other debris that may be on the fabric.

To help reduce the possibility of pressing lines I like to tear the edges of my print.

Having a torn edge gives a softer area to be pressed which helps make any pressing lines less noticeable if they do happen.

I tear all the way around the design removing excess paper which works really well with these shirts.

Once the edges are torn the shirt should be cool to the touch. You don't want to add your sublimation print while the fabric is hot. That can cause the sublimation ink to start transferring which could ruin your blank.

Locate the sublimation print onto the shirt and using heat-resistant tape secure it into place.

Don't skip this step, if your sublimation print moves during the process that can cause ghosting which will make the lines of your design not crisp.

Protect your heat source from ink transfer. Add protective paper to the top of your sublimation print.

Today I'm using my EasyPress and I have it set to 385 degrees for 55 seconds.

Cover the design with the EasyPress and apply light to medium pressure for the entire time.

When the time is up, lift the EasyPress straight up and then peel back the paper to reveal your sublimated design.