We went to a dye sub seminar by JDS Industries, where they say to sublimate with the tile face up, image face down. That decreases the time in the heat press.
Other companies' instructions say to use the Nomex felt pad on the bottom, scrap paper, put the image face up, tile face down, scrap paper, and heat 400F for 8 mins.
We've been doing them with the tile face down, taking 8 minutes, and it's working well for us. But when we need to do a lot at once, it would be nice to do them faster.
Any recommendations? Are both ways ok?
And if you have the tile face up, what order do you assemble everything?
Nomex, then scrap, then tile face up, image face down, scrap paper, then nothing but hard heat press platen on top? That's why I hesitate. I think it needs something soft on the face side of the tile.