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Originally Posted by gothicaleigh |  | | | | | | | | | Solvent inks are usually too harsh for aqueous print heads. Solvent printers also typically heat the material you are printing on so that the solvents embed themselves, this contributes to the fade resistance expected from solvents almost as much as the ink itself. Epson Stylus printers on the other hand, use a piezoelectric system that purposely does not heat the ink or material. | |  | |  | |
Thanks GL. thats the kind of tip I was hoping for -- also sets my expectations pretty low for making it work out at all. Just the kind of reality/sanity check I was looking for.
If the inks will eventually eat the print head, it's likely not a very viable project. On the other hand, it wouldnt be too big a deal to shoot the printed vinyl through a tunnel dryer or some under some sort of spot dryer since there's a screen printer right next door to me.
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Originally Posted by gothicaleigh | | | | | | | | | | I'm interested in hearing what you may find from your experiments, but without seeing some solid results proving otherwise, would not expect the printheads nor the printed materials to last very long at all.
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Well now that I have some baseline expectations set, Im prepared to totally kill one of the c88s. Truthfully I wouldn't be trying to ever sell any of the printed vinyl stickers if it did work out. It's more of a pet project for a family member. It popped into my head after reading the running TS-F thread about the guy who converted a standard c88 into a cheap working
dtg printer with a bit of perseverence and creative 'outside-the-box' thinking.
Im sure someone else has already thought about, and even tried, to add the eco-sol (or solvent) inks into a desktop, so I was just hoping they would share that success/failure/experience as the baseline for me to jump in, OR, not even attempt as totally hopeless.
Obviously, something as simple as the printhead on the cheap epsons not allowing the eco-sol ink particles to properly pass thru would put the ka-bosh on it working immediately.
anywho, thanks for the pointer. I didnt even think about inks needing heat to properly cure. Just assumed if they were piezo technology friendly they didnt require any heat. Of it makes sense as piezo is just using a electrical charge to control the release of ink droplets -- nothing to do with the curing of it.
d <-- still wont get to try it the experiment til mid summer or later at the earliest.