Usually plastisol heat transfers are used on cotton fabrics. They are printed on transfer paper with ink and then heat pressed on the clothes. These stickers have hand feel and washable.

However, sublimation transfers are printed with sublimation ink on the sublimation paper. After heat pressing, the sublimation ink will be transferred on t-shirts, in this case, it has no hand feel and so they are also applied to ceramics, glass.

Besides, plastisol heat transfer is costly than sublimation transfer as it needs special transfer paper.