Full color sublimation to 100% cotton

1. A method for transferring an image to a fabric, comprising:

providing a recording medium;

coating the recording medium with a specialty coating including a silicone release agent, a silicone emulsion catalyst, and a binder;

printing an image on the recording medium including the specialty coating, the image being printed using a sublimation ink;

adhering a powder adhesive to the image printed on the recording medium while the image is in a wet or tactile state;

transferring the recording medium including powder adhesive and image to the fabric; and

hot-pressing the powder adhesive and image to the fabric to adhere the powder adhesive and image to the fabric.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the specialty coating, a ratio of an amount of the silicone release agent to an amount of the silicon emulsion catalyst is about 4 to 1.

3. The method according to claim 1 , where the specialty coating further includes a humectant, a pigment, and a wetting agent.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the binder including polyvinyl alcohol.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the binder includes a styrene/n-butyl acrylate copolymer.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powder adhesive is a copolyester or a thermoplastic polyurethane.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powder adhesive has a melting point in the range of 90 C to 125 C.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powder adhesive has a melt flow index in the range of 15 g/10 min to 25 g/10 min.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of hot-pressing occurs at 180 C to 200 C.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a step of providing a flock or foil to the adhered powder adhesive and image.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the fabric is 100 percent cotton.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the fabric includes a blend of fabrics.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the image is printed using an ink jet printer.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powder adhesive has a particle size of less than 200 microns.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powder adhesive does not adhere to portions of the recording medium that do not include the image.

16. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising removing the recording medium from the fabric.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the image is printed on the recording medium as a mirror image to an image that is intended to be transferred to the fabric.