“Can I use sublimation transfer paper for this?? for phone cases”
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No. We tried. That is why we bought the Canon Selphy 1300CP. We attempted to use this printer to print images to be transferred to a hard substrate sublimation blank, such as phone case sublimation blanks. This printer does not work for that process. So, the Selphy 1300 is a thermal dye-sublimation printer. Yes, the print process is a true thermal dye-sublimation print process. However, for this process, the Selphy 1300 requires it's own special paper, which is a glossy, thermal paper. What we found is that when you print a photo to the special Canon paper and then attempt to transfer that image to a hard substrate, the dye-sublimation ink does actually transfer to a hard, sublimation substrate blank, such as a phone case blank, using a heat press. However, the problem is that the glossy paper that is made for this printer also transfers to the substrate and destroys the substrate by leaving some of the resinous, glossy layer from the paper on the sublimation blank. The heat transfer process does not work properly using the glossy paper made for the Selphy 1300. We also tested using high-quality sublimation paper to print to. We cut out 4x6 sheets of sublimation paper and inserted it into the paper tray. This paper did actually feed into the printer OK. However, the end result is that the printer does not transfer any ink or image to the sublimation paper because the sublimation paper is not a thermal paper and this Selphy 1300 cannot print to sublimation paper. Sublimation paper is designed to receive/absorb dye-sublimation ink from an ink-jet style printer. Sublimation paper is not designed to work with a thermal dye-sublimation printer such as the Selphy 1300CP. In short, do not attempt to use the Selphy 1300CP printer to do a dye-sublimation, heat-press transfer process, you will be wasting your time and money doing so. The Selphy 1300 does print very nice, glossy 4x6 photos. But, do not try to use those photos for any other purpose in a heat-transfer process, you will be very disappointed and frustrated with the result. For dye-sublimation heat-press processing get an ink-jet printer that can take ink cartridges filled with dye-sublimation ink and use sublimation paper.
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