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hp460 heat press (again)
Hi folks, I see that a lot of people looked at the last post I made, I take it no-one has one of these cheap import things,,,,,,,I really need some help guy’s, can any one tell me what -H- on the temp clock means.
Thanks
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Hi Stephen,
I bought a cheap heat press a few years ago too and believe it was an import.
There are obviously different machines available so can only go by what mine did – I have 2 digital readouts on the control box – one for time and one for temperature. Would guess your -H- would be for heat temperature either in celsius of farenheit – mine could display both.
Apologies if you already know the following bit but thought I’d add it anyway – You should be able to set the temperature via the display and then let it heat up. Can take quite a few minutes, especially if going up to around 150 to 200 degrees celsius. Then use the time setting for however long you need to press the transfer for – adjust to the desired time, press go and it should count back and beep when finished.
Regarding your last post about what the time/heat ratio settings are, it would all depend on the item you’re printing onto and where you get them from. Your sublimation consumable supplier should be able to give you a general guide and then it’s trial and error.
It’s normally how long you apply the heat for that is most likely to change and once you’ve pressed a few things, you’ll soon realise whether you need to adjust the dwell time.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks James, I have had it counting backwards and it did heat up, just cant get it to do it again,,,and when I tried to get information from China, Well that was a waste of time.
I shall continue to mess around with it and see if i can work out these mad settings. I know that on the ebay adverts for this lump of metal, that there is a warning, not to play around with the temp setting clocks "as they are delicate", just unfortunate someone beat me to it lol….Thanks -
James, as regards to my last input, I have read your post again,,,,,
I can get the timer to work okay, its the temp clock that is causing me the issue.when i turn on the "lump" it will display either -H- or -L-, And if i press the temp settings and hold it, i can set the temp,,,,then it just clicks off to either one of those letters.
Then if I press the settings and hold it for a second or so,,,I get "C000" of that I can change up to "C0-41" or down to "C021",,,Press it again and i get "Y000" And that can be changed up to "Y040"
I think all i need to do is work out what they should be set at.Thanks again
Anyone else reading this, had the same issues with a similar lump of metal ?????"
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No problem.
When I looked, the only ‘guides’ I could find for the HP460 machine were on eBay. It seems the user guide is a one page manual and there is a photo and small set of ‘instructions’ for the temp and time setting.
They don’t say anything different than what I said above. There was a ‘clickable manual download’ but I wasn’t going there 😮
Anyway, hope you sort it.
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I saw a couple of YouTube clips which might help
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Yip James your right one page manual, and when you click on the link, you get the same text as you saw on that eBay page
Graham, I have scoured the Internet and could not find any good stuff, so if you have found something on utube point me in the right direction please.
My problem is that I do not like to give up easy, I did not pay a lot of money for this
So if it is for the bin then so be it, but i will give it a fair trial before sending it to its deathCheers guys
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