I spent months religiously cooling my mugs in warm water (so they didn't crack). Turns out you don't need to cool them, unless you need to package them up quickly, lol.

They WILL hurt if you pick up a hot one I suppose

<r><QUOTE author="letsgo;55507"><s>[QUOTE=letsgo;55507]</s>Even though there no idle temp etc you still need to heat press for 3mins with a dud mug in and then put print mug in restart timer,we have one that we use at shows and never really had a problem with it doing the way i explained.<e>[/QUOTE ...

<r><QUOTE author="Paul;55489"><s>[QUOTE=Paul;55489]</s>can you provide picture of this press? I am interested how it looks like.<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE>

There we go. It's actually a really neat we press. Nice and light, very portable.<br/>
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<r><QUOTE author="WorthDoingRight;55506"><s>[QUOTE=WorthDoingRight;55506]</s>If your mug press only has one temperature and a timer then this is what I do. I place a duff mug inside and set to 180 degrees. Once press hits 180 swap it for the mug you want to sublimate. Once that gets back to 180 ...

<t>So I bought the cheapy mug press off ebay.<br/>
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No pre-heat, and no temp control. You just set the timer, put the mug in the press and switch it on.<br/>
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My only issue is: light patches on black areas of image.<br/>
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<t>Hi Steve, welcome.<br/>
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I too am using an S22 setup.<br/>
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I had major problems at first, blaming the refillable cartridge when it turned out to be a crappy printer. Got a new printer and everything is now running fine.<br/>
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I don't use a profile, but my images are cartoony, so I ...

<r>I'm not using a profile. So far I've been lucky lol.<br/>
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I would imagine if I tried printing skin tones, or landscapes I'd be in trouble, so once I get some cash in Paypal I shall be contacting Paul <E>;-)</E><br/>
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As was advised earlier in this thread, I used a basic printer setting ...

Ok, no probs.

Sorry Paul, did I break it? lol

<r>New printer arrived today.<br/>
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Inserted cartridges then usual software faff as the PC can't recognise the printer for an hour, lol, but then.....<br/>
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