The heat transfers are full color and pretty permanent. There is also no cracking or peeling of sublimation prints like you ...

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.