To sublimate a design requires the use of specialty printers and sublimation inks. Special sublimation dyes are transferred to sheets of specialty paper using a sublimation printer. Standard printers and ink are not the same as those used in sublimation printing. A sublimation design is printed onto sublimation transfer sheets using specialty ink and then heat pressed onto another material. The end result of the sublimation process is a nearly permanent, high resolution, full color print. Because the dyes are infused into the substrate at the molecular level, rather than applied at a topical level (such as with screen printing and direct to garment printing), the prints will not crack, fade or peel from the substrate under normal conditions.