I am printing dark shirts with 2 passes of underbase at 720 photo. The color is also 720 photo. The shirts are printing great the only issue is the number of prints. I set the number of copies to 1 but the printer just keeps printing the same design and will keep printing it until I turn the printer off to clear the memory.
I have tried deleting the print queue and recreating it, no luck still having the same issue.
This only happens when setting the underbase to more than 1 pass.
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I have never had the issue you have. It could possibly be a bug in the RIP software.
I think the prints my T-Jet 2 gives me are spectacular. These are the settings I use for when I want the best quality and best speed I can get (sort of a modest compromise) in the FastRIP setup:
I use Cartoon mode unless the art is highly detailed, then I use Photo.
Print Mode: 720 HS
Underbase Print Mode: 1440 HS
I always import art into FastARTIST and in the Underbase setup window I use these settings:
Underbase Strength - Medium, no gamma adjustment left at default 128
Choke - Maximum
Highlight White - Medium
I know this does not fix your real problem, but you could try this way and you might get great prints, in one pass each for underbase and color in high speed mode, while your queue and print counts hopefully don't give you any problems either.
Well, if you only experience this bug when setting the underbase to more than 1 pass, I would suggest just printing the underbase 1 pass at Photo 1440 HS. It's almost exactly the same result as printing two passes of 720, but it prints faster since you do not have to wait for the printer to reload.
However, if you're really interested in fixing this bug, please tell me what version of FastArtist you have (it will say on your installation CD) and what version of Windows you have.
Also, follow this step: In FastRIP, go to Printers-> Manage Printers-> Click the context menu that looks like [...] (located between the port and version #).
Then check the two boxes that are labeled "Infinite".
I have the EZ RIP 10.0 and EZ Artist 2.0 I use Vista 64 bit operating system
There is no context menu that looks like [...]
I tried a single pass at 1440 on red shirts and the color bleeds through making the white look pink.
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I use the underbase wizard with the following settings
strength 100
White 100%
Light areas 100
Dark ares 0
Highlight overlap
The image I am printing is a Snowman and a Santa if I don't make 2 passes with the underbase the snowman truns out pink. One coat of underbase at 1440 is too light.
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If you are using our EZ PRO 2 Bulk Ink System on your T-Jet 2 you should be able to get a bright white underbase print with only one pass. All the sample T-Jet 2 shirts we send out are printed with one pass white and one pass color. Are your nozzle checks perfect?
Yes I do a head cleaning and print a nozzle check prior to each print job.
I have the bulk ink system. I set it up just like the video and lowered the ink bottles until the ink drops stopped forming I have good ink flow to the white cartridge and I agitate the white ink every day.
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Yes I do a head cleaning and print a nozzle check prior to each print job.
I have the bulk ink system. I set it up just like the video and lowered the ink bottles until the ink drops stopped forming I have good ink flow to the white cartridge and I agitate the white ink every day.
It is possible that you aren't getting a great looking white because of your underbase settings and possibly your pretreating.
I can only speak from my experience at Equipment Zone, but when we print test prints before sending out our refurbished Fast T-Jet 2s, we are able to set the underbase strength at much less than 100% underbase strength and without a highlight white and still get completely opaque white, along with gradients of white in the gradient areas.
While I can't be sure, it's likely that your red is bleeding into your white because you are printing a highlight white. You should probably turn the highlight off.
Since you have FastArtist 2.0, you can also use bornover's method, using the underbase setup window to set up your underbase instead of the underbase wizard. This works best if you're starting from a 300 dpi Photoshop file with a transparent background.
Try these settings:
Underbase Strength - Medium (Gamma Adjustment at 128)
Choke - Maximum
Highlight White - None
I started off with those settings and started using the wizard after not getting enough white. I have raised my bulk ink system up just a little to see if I get better flow.
The prints look great with 2 passes of white but it would be nice to only have to use 1 underbase pass.
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While I can't be sure, it's likely that your red is bleeding into your white because you are printing a highlight white. You should probably turn the highlight off.
-Alex
The red ink is not bleeding into the white ink. The underbase white is just so thin that the red shirt color is showing through.
I am just not getting a solid white coat without 2 passes on the underbase.
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I suspect your issue may have more to do with your pretreating. One way to test this is to spray a garment with much more pretreatment then you normally do. Print the shirt the way Alex suggested. If you get a bright white print then you know you need to adjust your pretreatment process.
I agree with Harry to test out the pretreatment aspect. I thought of one other thing that could cause this problem. By any chance did you change the max ink adjustment in the FastRIP setup? I change it sometimes for different substrates and have forgot to put it back and then got some pale prints on a t-shirt.
Max ink setting 400
Start ink reduction 400
Hard cap 400
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I don't know what to say SP, you should not have a problem getting a single pass at 1440, medium underbase strength setting, to give you a perfect white underbase. If I change to the maximum underbase strength setting, I get too much white that is so thick it does not dry enough before the color pass.
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