Hey teeface, welcome to the jungle. A lot of folks who don't press many shirts use oem type ink with some adjustment (a good bit of trial and error is needed) and are mostly happy. If you intend to press many shirts I would suggest using pigment ink formulated for garment printing. These inks do not "shift" color under heat and pressure. They make pressing much simpler. I personally like cobra ink on the web. I like buying from the same company so I can get the same results each time. Good luck with the shirts. Hope this helps.
Jet Pro Soft Stretch (JPSS): After pressing - Grey has Green Tint - 24 hours later Green Tint is gone!
Hi guys. I've been using Jet Pro Soft Stretch paper on white t-shirts with much success.
Something I have recently noticed... I have mostly been printing brighter colours and been happy with the results but the other day I printed a black and white portrait image with red text over it. After printing.. the red didn't come out as bright as I would have liked but it was alright. The black and white portrait looked fine on the paper, but after I pressed it, the black and white image had a green tint to it. This has happened to me once before but I still went ahead and posted it to the customer. As this has happened again, I decided to research on how to correct it.. I use non branded inks for my Epson printer, but they are from a reputable company and not some random seller on eBay. I have read about this in many other threads and people's answers are usually 'set up proper colour profile' or adjust yellow to -15 and cyan and magenta to +5. I have not tried this yet. I really need to set up the colour profile in Photoshop.
I don't think it's the Black that turns slightly green after pressing, because I have printed many things in pure black and it's come out fine. It's the grey. I believe this might happen when the printer uses more colours rather than just black to create the grey. I think the printer does this when it's not set to just use black ink only. The heat causes it the inks to change.
However.. something I noticed was the day after pressing. I held the T-shirt to the natural daylight and the green tint was gone! It was black and white! It looks like the ink took a day to settle properly and it returned to its proper colour. Has anyone else experienced this?
Something I have recently noticed... I have mostly been printing brighter colours and been happy with the results but the other day I printed a black and white portrait image with red text over it. After printing.. the red didn't come out as bright as I would have liked but it was alright. The black and white portrait looked fine on the paper, but after I pressed it, the black and white image had a green tint to it. This has happened to me once before but I still went ahead and posted it to the customer. As this has happened again, I decided to research on how to correct it.. I use non branded inks for my Epson printer, but they are from a reputable company and not some random seller on eBay. I have read about this in many other threads and people's answers are usually 'set up proper colour profile' or adjust yellow to -15 and cyan and magenta to +5. I have not tried this yet. I really need to set up the colour profile in Photoshop.
I don't think it's the Black that turns slightly green after pressing, because I have printed many things in pure black and it's come out fine. It's the grey. I believe this might happen when the printer uses more colours rather than just black to create the grey. I think the printer does this when it's not set to just use black ink only. The heat causes it the inks to change.
However.. something I noticed was the day after pressing. I held the T-shirt to the natural daylight and the green tint was gone! It was black and white! It looks like the ink took a day to settle properly and it returned to its proper colour. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Hi there. Thanks for the reply!Hey teeface, welcome to the jungle. A lot of folks who don't press many shirts use oem type ink with some adjustment (a good bit of trial and error is needed) and are mostly happy. If you intend to press many shirts I would suggest using pigment ink formulated for garment printing. These inks do not "shift" color under heat and pressure. They make pressing much simpler. I personally like cobra ink on the web. I like buying from the same company so I can get the same results each time. Good luck with the shirts. Hope this helps.
To be honest I don't think there's even a shift in colour. I did some test prints on normal a4 paper and the pressed design colours look the same as they do on the plain paper. It was only the grey that shifted slightly green, but it totally disappeared the day after and now looks grey. So it looks like sometimes it might take a few hours or a day for the green tint to go away.
I use pigment inks bought in the UK. I keep hearing about Cobra but they're in America so it's a bit difficult and most likely more expensive if imported. I'm pretty happy with the inks i'm using.. it was just the green tint with the grey. Was just wondering if it happened to anyone else.
The only thing I really need to do is set up the colour profile properly in Photoshop.
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