Fun Facts About Jennifer Beale of AtoZofSublimation.Com

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Let’s get personal. Here are a few fun facts about Jennifer Beale, the main sublimation, technical guide writer for AtoZofSublimation.com:

1. I am an Air Force Veteran and proudly served during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm era.
2. I have a successful sublimation business that I run as a side-hustle. This started as a hobby several years ago and it grew into a side business.
3. I also have a full time job on top of my sublimation business. 
4. I own several sublimation printers that I currently use for my business. I print a lot. I may also have a bit of an obsession with printers and learning about them. Pics of my printers below.
   • Current Printers:
     • 2 Sawgrass SG400s
     • Sawgrass SG800
     • Epson SC F170 — since 2-2021
     • Converted ET-2803 — new for 2022
     • Converted Epson EcoTank 15000 — still need to be set up
     • 2nd Epson SC F170 — still needs to be set up
   • Just retired:
     • Converted Epson Artisan 1430 — retired as of 4-2022.
     • 3 Sawgrass SG400s — just retired as of 5-2022.
5. I’m waiting for my older printers to stop working so I can buy an Epson F570. I would buy it now but I really don’t have the space!
6. A major pet peeve: businesses who infringe on trademarks and copyrights! I see so many businesses who violate Disney, LV, Chanel, NFL, and other brands’ trademarks. They sublimate these on their blanks and sell them to others. This is not a sustainable business; they will always be known to be the source for fakes and inauthentic items.
7. Another pet peeve: designers and sellers who think they are legally cleared from misconduct since they bought or drew their own “rendition” of a trademarked/copyrighted item. (i.e. inspired designs). Nope, that’s not how it works.
8. I hold a couple of U.S. Registered Trademarks and several registered copyrights on my designs and images. I do my due diligence on researching designs before putting it out in public as I respect others’ intellectual property. I have no problems with being legally aggressive with protecting my trademarks and copyrights. 
9. I like photography. For my business, I prefer to shoot pics using my Canon with a Sigma 30mm, F1.4mm lens, in a manual setting, then editing those raw images. But I’m constantly surprised at the newer phone cameras’ capabilities. 
10. Before I had kids, I used to do a lot of rock climbing (outdoor trad climbing, not sport or gym). Now that I have kids, I don’t climb because I think about the consequences of getting hurt while climbing. 
11. The highest climb I’ve ever done in one day was 800 feet in Yosemite. I was never interested in multi-day climbs because sleeping while hanging on the side of the rock, hundreds of feet up in the air, wasn’t something that appealed to me.
12. The scariest movie I’ve ever seen was the Blair Witch Project when it first came out. My goal is to watch it again while camping. I can’t seem to get the courage to try it though.
13. I’m a Generation X.
14. Favorite genre of music: 90s Alternative Rock. I can’t believe that’s considered “classic” now. Sigh. 
15. I love going to concerts. The most memorable one was U2’s Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Concert in 2017. Yes I’m old but I prefer to call myself “finely aged”.
16. I am capable of building my own PCs from scratch. I built my previous ones, build them for friends, and even guided my son to build his first gaming PC. But I prefer Apple and Macs over PCs and that’s all I use for designing and for my sublimation business.
17. I’m not really into social media. I only do it for business purposes.
18. Someday, I want to compete in “The Amazing Race”. 
19. Favorite shows I recently binged watched: Yellowstone, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Animal Kingdom. I hate it when a favorite series ends.
20. Shows I have running in the background while I work on my sublimation business: Shark Tank, Schitt’s Creek, Grey’s Anatomy, Documentaries.