I'm new to sublimation & have yet to get a good print/transfer with the sawgrass inks. The cartridges I received initially had problems so they had to send me new ones. I was finally able to do a mug & a can cozie but the colors weren't quite right. I'd recently been in an accident so I just gve up on the whole thing for a few months & now my ink cartridges are bad again. ARGH!!! Sawgrass is going to send me replacement blank cartridges but won't replace the color ones.
I'm looking for any information about the benefits of switching to a bulk system and which would be better for a beginner- sawgrass or artanium? I have an Epson C120 printer. I think I might get better answers from actual users of the products instead of a salesperson at a company that carries one or the other.
I'm new to sublimation & have yet to get a good print/transfer with the sawgrass inks. The cartridges I received initially had problems so they had to send me new ones. I was finally able to do a mug & a can cozie but the colors weren't quite right. I'd recently been in an accident so I just gve up on the whole thing for a few months & now my ink cartridges are bad again. ARGH!!! Sawgrass is going to send me replacement blank cartridges but won't replace the color ones.
I'm looking for any information about the benefits of switching to a bulk system and which would be better for a beginner- sawgrass or artanium? I have an Epson C120 printer. I think I might get better answers from actual users of the products instead of a salesperson at a company that carries one or the other.
Thanks!
Sawgrass is the company, Artainium and Sublijet are their products. You will not find another legal distributor of sublimation inks in America as Sawgrass holds the sublimation patent. Artainium is their newer inkset, it requires use of ICC color profiles to do color correction, Sublijet requires a special print driver, I don't have any experience with sublijet other than reading and research. When you say that you weren't getting good quality prints it is most likely due to not utilizing the ICC profile correctly or you're sublimating onto a color product. Since there is no white ink with sublimation, your substrate should generally be white for the closest match in print, although you can sometimes get away with lighter pastel colors.
I have a C88 with an Artainium bulk ink system and haven't had many problems with it. There was an air bubble in the lines once, and I hadn't configured my ICC profile correctly so everything was coming out darker and purpler, other than that been running fine. System's about 9 months old now.
Hmmm Swagrass is a company and that company makes a product called ArTainium ink. They also make other inks. I myself read these forms alot before making my mind up on refill carts for the ink. I had read that there is alot of clogs with a cis. If your colors are not right that would be an ICC profile problem
Joe has the correct answer...Sawgrass is the source for artainium and sublijet inks...both are sublimation but since all the patent infringement suits settled out..Sawgrass is the only legit source for desktop prrinters and sublimation ink in USA...That is not the same for large format printers that is for the printer above the 4800 series...like the 7800 etc
Sawgrass vs. Artainium or ??? 
