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Help with Sublimation Printing – Gone all yellowy!
Hello everyone
We use an Epson 1290 with bulk ink subli ink from Novachrome, which has been excellent.
Ink is now very slightly out of date. Novachrome say that should not be a problem.
We’ve had a few problems with the yellow printhead, with yellow not printing so well, so we brought a printhead cleaner cartridge. This did not solve the problem, but the result now is that photos, etc, are now coming out very yellowy, where there should be skin colour its yellowy, and the whole thing, e.g. a mousemat, has like a dull yellowy tinge all over (like the sky when a bad thunderstorm is just about to hit!)
Any ideas please?
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7 Replies
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Is the yellow tinge on the transfer before you press it? I not then it could be your heat press not reaching set temperature. Try turning temp up or better still buy a laser temp gun to check temp.
Jim -
Hi, yes I’m afraid its on the original print before we press it!
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sounds like a calibration problem to me. I don’t know the machine at all sorry, but just seems to me that the software needs a tweek for some reason. Of course, I could be wrong. Being married as long as I have, being wrong is something I’m used too 🙄 😕
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Hi
I had a similar problem. I have the same set up as you using Sawgrass inks from Novachrome. Our prints were always Pink, i.e. not enough yellow coming through.
I would do a Nozzle check in the morning, everything OK. Nozzle check in afternoon after a couple of prints and yellow would be blocked. Unfortunately a new machine was the answer.
I am not convinced that sublimination inks are OK to use in machines, but this is why Epson do not guarantee their machines with 3rd party inks.
I recently raised the problem with Sawgrass at the recent Printwear Exhibition at NEC, waiting for a reply.
Incidently there is a full cleaning proceedure involving many head cleans, switching the machine on and off and Windolene!!! Speak to Novachrome technical dept.
Hope this is helpful
Tony
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I know in the past I have had problems on bulk ink systems with light magenta. It was the ink clogging the heads.
I think that has been fixed though – by the ink manufacturers.
See which colours are not printing correctly when you test print.
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I have a Rotec bulk feed system and Epson C86. Head is constantly blocked. I went through so many head clean cycles in a couple of months that the printer came up with a fault. (Counter on cleaning cycles maxed out!) Luckily I managed to get this sorted under warranty – Listawoods, the suppliers were not interested in helping me!!
Moral of this story is Epson printers do not like anything other than Epson ink to work reliably.
(I also have inside info from Epson as I have done loads of work for them in the past) -
My printer is the other way to your at the moment.
I printed out two small AppleMac logos (Rainbow) and I have Green, Yellow and Blue coming out. So I guessed I was simply missing a bit of red.
I then printed out a test page and I all I got was a 3 yelloe lines?
Confused.
Alpha
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