This durable and stylish stainless steel can cooler is a welcome addition to the soft neoprene insulators that have been around forever. Double-walled insulators, most commonly made for 12-oz. cans, are offered with a white or clear coating and feature a black gasket to help keep a canned drink cool. Images transferred into the white coating produce a vibrant, true-to-color image with exceptional quality and detail. The images transferred into the clear coating produce a vibrant, metallic-looking image with the same exceptional quality and detail. The stainless steel can insulator can be decorated using a standard sublimation printer and a traditional mug press or sublimation oven.
Basic materials list for mug press:
- Digital template
- Printed transfer
- Blank stainless steel insulator
- Heat tape
- Heat gloves
- Scissors
- Protective paper
- Mug press
Basic steps using a mug press:
- Download a digital product template and use it to create your artwork.
- Print the transfer and trim away excess paper.
- Secure transfer to insulator using heat tape.
- Wrap protective paper around the insulator and press for 2 minutes at 360 F.
- Carefully remove the insulator from the press, remove the transfer, and let cool.
Basic materials list for the oven:
- Digital template
- Printed transfer
- Blank stainless steel insulator
- Heat tape
- Heat gloves
- Scissors
- SubliShrink shrink wrap film sleeve
- Heat gun
- Sublimation oven
Basic steps using an oven with shrink wrap film sleeve:
- Download a digital product template and use it to create your artwork.
- Print the transfer and trim away excess paper.
- Secure transfer to insulator using heat tape.
- Insert insulator with attached transfer into a shrink wrap film sleeve and shrink the film sleeve with a heat gun to conform to the product’s shape.
- Place it into the oven for 6 minutes at 360 F.
- Carefully remove the insulator from the oven, remove the transfer and SubliShrink, and let cool.
