[shaka]

Does anyone know a good ink system for epson 1400 that produces sharp, dark colors? I am using inkjetcarts heat transfer cartridges and the prints look washed out. HELP!

 

[brentonchad]

What paper are you using. Also there are some good tips in this post. They seemed to be able to get some really good colors and washability with the inkjetcarts ink.

http://www.t-shirtforums.com/heat-press-heat-transfers/t47868.html

 

[shaka]

Im doing test prints on plain white paper, plan to use jetprosoft stretch. the colors are not rich and dark, rather washed out looking. am i missing something?

 

[brentonchad]

So depending on your settings for paper type and your color profile and the paper will generate different results. I have yet to use the jpss or the inkjetcart ink - but have been researching it heavily and according to what i have read all of those settings will make a difference.

I also believe that the print on the jpss will be dull but it users say it looks great when printed. But "looks great" depends on the perspective. I don't think your going to get as vibrant colors as you do with screen printing or plastisol transfers (I may be wrong - but from what I have seen that is the case) but you can get it to look as good as the DTG printers.

I would get some shirts and some jpss and test from there. If you were printing photo's I don't think you could make a good judgement by printing on plain paper versus quality without printing on high quality photo paper