What's Your Opinnion?
[White Ink Printing on DTG Printers]
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from the looks of it ..I would say inconsistent pretreat
maybe still wet from pretreat
not enough pretreat
did you use a roller to get into the fibers?
maybe still wet from pretreat
not enough pretreat
did you use a roller to get into the fibers?
Thanks for the reply.
Firstly, let me tell you what my gut feeling is - but I have no experience yet as I'm a new owner.
The white ink carts were held up in UK customs for 3 weeks - they were just stuck in a bonded warehouse and not moved. Would this cause separation?
As for the pretreat. I didn't apply the pretreat so cannot comment. I belive it was done by a pretreat machine a couple of months ago. However, the printing on other shirts from the same batch seemed to be very good.
I've purposely printed to an untreated shirt so I can be aware of the effect.
The white ink in the lines seems to be a good white but, the ink that lays on the surface of the shirt seems to be quite watery. As I have nothing to compare this to, I could be wrong.
After producing the print in the picture, I removed the carts and gave them a thorough shaking for about 10 minutes, of course I can't do the same to the ink in the lines
Just some of my thoughts.
Firstly, let me tell you what my gut feeling is - but I have no experience yet as I'm a new owner.
The white ink carts were held up in UK customs for 3 weeks - they were just stuck in a bonded warehouse and not moved. Would this cause separation?
As for the pretreat. I didn't apply the pretreat so cannot comment. I belive it was done by a pretreat machine a couple of months ago. However, the printing on other shirts from the same batch seemed to be very good.
I've purposely printed to an untreated shirt so I can be aware of the effect.
The white ink in the lines seems to be a good white but, the ink that lays on the surface of the shirt seems to be quite watery. As I have nothing to compare this to, I could be wrong.
After producing the print in the picture, I removed the carts and gave them a thorough shaking for about 10 minutes, of course I can't do the same to the ink in the lines
Just some of my thoughts.
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Yes, cartridges tend to get watery. I am not familiar with cartridges but I do hear this from time to time.
As far as the pretreated shirt, did you prepress before you printed?
As far as the pretreated shirt, did you prepress before you printed?
Yes, I pressed before printing.
I guess I was looking for a good degree of opaqueness in the pooled ink - it did seem to be watery but probably has to be to pass through the jets.
Maybe this is the time for me to learn how to pretreat shirts - will lookup a few videos on Youtube first.
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Thats how our prints look if we let the printer sit for a few days without shaking the bags, the separation will do odd things including puddling, look gray, have spots of gray + white in the same print.
You might have to take out your carts and shake them.
Once mixed though if you still get puddling you'll need to turn down the % of white your printer is putting down if your RIP software supports it. On the kiosk we have it set to 90% and on the MOD we have it set to 68%. That seems to give it a nice even underbase without puddling.
You might have to take out your carts and shake them.
Once mixed though if you still get puddling you'll need to turn down the % of white your printer is putting down if your RIP software supports it. On the kiosk we have it set to 90% and on the MOD we have it set to 68%. That seems to give it a nice even underbase without puddling.
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