Still need help with MP5i

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jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · Feb 27, 2014

still having lines in some art with mp5i.

1. I have good nozzle checks before and after print.
2. Built a 6 x 6 room laced in clear plastic and humidity is always at least 65 when not printing. Gets down to 55 sometime when printing.
3. Blade wipes before prints.
4. Printer is level.
5. If the art get lines it's usually half inch or quarter inch and it just a lighter shade of the color it's suppose to be.
6. Lines are in same spot if I would print art again, sometimes its not as noticeable than previous print or is more noticeable.
7. When this happens, underbase always seems to show somewhere, if not everywhere? Find that odd. I'll choke it 3 and will see it, but on other art that prints correctly with no lines I see no underbase with the same settings.

DTG ready has been kind enough to help me since Tech Support response is to just take out background images or change the color of art that is giving problems (not a solution). Anyways, he asked if I could see ink dots on the bottom of the print head after printing. I do, black and yellow right away and the other heads after waiting a few minutes. He said this may be the problem.

Any solutions on fixing this so my heads don't have ink on them (pressure in lines?) after a print. He said there should be nothing there.

Honestly. I like this printer and this issue is the only big hurdle I have left.

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MZDEELO

· #2 · Feb 27, 2014

jesterapparel said:
still having lines in some art with mp5i.

1. I have good nozzle checks before and after print.
2. Built a 6 x 6 room laced in clear plastic and humidity is always at least 65 when not printing. Gets down to 55 sometime when printing.
3. Blade wipes before prints.
4. Printer is level.
5. If the art get lines it's usually half inch or quarter inch and it just a lighter shade of the color it's suppose to be.
6. Lines are in same spot if I would print art again, sometimes its not as noticeable than previous print or is more noticeable.
7. When this happens, underbase always seems to show somewhere, if not everywhere? Find that odd. I'll choke it 3 and will see it, but on other art that prints correctly with no lines I see no underbase with the same settings.

DTG ready has been kind enough to help me since Tech Support response is to just take out background images or change the color of art that is giving problems (not a solution). Anyways, he asked if I could see ink dots on the bottom of the print head after printing. I do, black and yellow right away and the other heads after waiting a few minutes. He said this may be the problem.

Any solutions on fixing this so my heads don't have ink on them (pressure in lines?) after a print. He said there should be nothing there.

Honestly. I like this printer and this issue is the only big hurdle I have left.

Could you post or email me photos so that I can see what you are talking about. It sounds like you are describing "color banding" but i need to see photos to confirm.

[email protected]

treefox2118

· #3 · Feb 27, 2014

Sounds like he's seeing ink weeping from printhead surface.

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #4 · Feb 27, 2014

MZDEELO said:
Could you post or email me photos so that I can see what you are talking about. It sounds like you are describing "color banding" but i need to see photos to confirm.

[email protected]

Here is previous thread with pictures.
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/anajet/t311889.html

I can actually see it not laying down the ink. It's the same spots. So if it did it an image and I reprinted it, lines would be in the same spots.

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #5 · Feb 27, 2014

treefox2118 said:
Sounds like he's seeing ink weeping from printhead surface.

How do I fix it?

ericwin

· #6 · Feb 27, 2014

If the defect is always in the exact same spot and it is only happening with this particular design, I'd suggest you try re-saving your image file.

I once generated a PNG file from my vector artwork in CorelDraw and there must have been some weird memory glitch during the export because every time I printed this particular PNG file I had the same defect in the exact same spot. We thought it was the printer but eventually I sent the file into Anajet tech support and when they printed it, they had the exact same defect. I immediately regenerated my PNG file and the problem disappeared.

Eric

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #7 · Feb 27, 2014

ericwin said:
If the defect is always in the exact same spot and it is only happening with this particular design, I'd suggest you try re-saving your image file.

I once generated a PNG file from my vector artwork in CorelDraw and there must have been some weird memory glitch during the export because every time I printed this particular PNG file I had the same defect in the exact same spot. We thought it was the printer but eventually I sent the file into Anajet tech support and when they printed it, they had the exact same defect. I immediately regenerated my PNG file and the problem disappeared.

Eric

I tried that several times.

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #8 · Feb 27, 2014

Also, I have problem with colors showing up like they appear in the rip. For example, just printed something that had bronze gold, and it printed it gold. Is that normal to have colors not look he same as in the anajet rip? It happens a lot.

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #9 · Mar 28, 2014

Still having this problem

MZDEELO

· #10 · Mar 28, 2014

jesterapparel said:
Still having this problem

Here are links to a color chart.

I suggest printing them non content based (pure white)

it will help you have a color reference to what the printer can produce to what you see on the screen.

Use an eyedropper tool (in whichever graphic design program you use) to choose colors from this chart and use it in your artwork.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwo14qwyetdwi11/Pantone Color Chart #1.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3hljbkz3n6w0ngv/Pantone Color Chart #2.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rpzbybtff3v9v3p/Pantone Color Chart #3.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhnhjxxp93v17f2/Pantone Color Chart #4.png

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jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 28, 2014

MZDEELO said:
Here are links to a color chart.

I suggest printing them non content based (pure white)

it will help you have a color reference to what the printer can produce to what you see on the screen.

Use an eyedropper tool (in whichever graphic design program you use) to choose colors from this chart and use it in your artwork.

[media]https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwo14qwyetdwi11/Pantone%20Color%20Chart%20%231.png[/media]

[media]https://www.dropbox.com/s/3hljbkz3n6w0ngv/Pantone%20Color%20Chart%20%232.png[/media]

[media]https://www.dropbox.com/s/rpzbybtff3v9v3p/Pantone%20Color%20Chart%20%233.png[/media]

[media]https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhnhjxxp93v17f2/Pantone%20Color%20Chart%20%234.png[/media]

This doesn't solve the streaks in the art

MZDEELO

· #12 · Mar 28, 2014

jesterapparel said:
This doesn't solve the streaks in the art

When you said you are still having this issue, I assumed you were speaking of the gold color print not matching up to what the screen looks like since it was the last thing you had posted about. My apologies for my assumptions.

directdigital

· #13 · Apr 30, 2014

i am having these issues as well. perfect climate perfect nozzle checks and even perfect test prints of solid CMYK coloring before printing. images will produce random bandwidthing within the image some more than others. also colors not matching as they should compared to screen and i have used many color charts supplied by anajet. i need this issue resolved causing my customers to be disappointed with product causing bad customer experience driving away business.

i am not as confident in the mpower as i was when it was "just a thought"

oc2dHK

· #14 · Apr 30, 2014

Don't want to sound dumbbbbb. I print on a FP125 from a tiff file all the time. Had the same problem when I first started out and changed to from png to tiff.

For what it's worth.

jesterapparel

Discussion Starter · #15 · May 10, 2014

directdigital said:
i am having these issues as well. perfect climate perfect nozzle checks and even perfect test prints of solid CMYK coloring before printing. images will produce random bandwidthing within the image some more than others. also colors not matching as they should compared to screen and i have used many color charts supplied by anajet. i need this issue resolved causing my customers to be disappointed with product causing bad customer experience driving away business.

i am not as confident in the mpower as i was when it was "just a thought"

Exactly my problem.

The latest response from anajet is they are suppose to come up with a better rip soon in a couple of months to fix this problem. Not holding my breath. About ready to throw in the towel on this machine and get a brother or EPSON. Not making any money with it. In fact, with wasted ink and t-shirts I'm probably losing money. Nothing like ICC Profile shows how it will look, only when it is printed not even close. It will print white shirts all day, but I'm convinced this thing isn't a dark shirt printer.

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