<r><QUOTE author="malkram;132875"><s>[QUOTE=malkram;132875]</s>I dont think photoshop settings will change anything if the printer is defective. I remember that I had dots even when printing a colour palette directly through the printer menu (with the buttons)<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE>

Yeah that makes ...

webtrekker;132873 wrote:The dithering settings are in the printer driver --> Print Quality tab. My Ricoh SG3110DN is set to 'Use error diffusion: auto(image).'

Thank you!

<r><QUOTE author="malkram;132864"><s>[QUOTE=malkram;132864]</s>I had the same problem with Sawgrass SG 400 which is basically the same printer. Sawgrass sent me 2 replacements and still the same problem. The problem is called "dithering" and they recognized it's a flaw in the firmware. I seem to ...

<r><QUOTE author="InkExpress;132860"><s>[QUOTE=InkExpress;132860]</s>The POD company are obviously using a poor quality ink, paper or mug, or possibly all three. That image of the heart you posted is terrible and they should not be sending that out on your behalf. I would look at using another POD ...

<r><QUOTE author="GoonerGary;132857"><s>[QUOTE=GoonerGary;132857]</s>I would blame budget paper and maybe the ink. It's bad quality printing, who is the POD company?<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE>

Do you think the paper would affect certain colours more than others? Because the black is fine. <br/>
It's ...

webtrekker;132856 wrote:Maybe the POD mug has a poorer coating.

One of them isn't branded on the bottom so could be anything but one is Orca and I've not had issues with them before..

<r><QUOTE author="Ljb596;132853"><s>[QUOTE=Ljb596;132853]</s>Just tried printing from Illustrator and it's the same. To be fair it isn't bad and when it's pressed it's acceptable and I would send it out. <br/>
But when I send the same file to a print on demand company, it's much worse and I wouldn't ...

<r><QUOTE author="InkExpress;132852"><s>[QUOTE=InkExpress;132852]</s>No worries just thought I'd check as it is quite easily done.<br/>
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If the colour is solid on screen and has be filled in with one solid colour then the artwork is fine. Why don't you try printing directly from Illustrator ...

<r><QUOTE author="InkExpress;132850"><s>[QUOTE=InkExpress;132850]</s>Have you looked at the design artwork to see if there's an issue with it, possibly not a solid spot colour? If the digital image has the colour made up of spotted colour this would be produced by the printer and then transferred to ...

<r><QUOTE author="logobear;132848"><s>[QUOTE=logobear;132848]</s>do you see the dots on the paper before heat pressing?<br/>
if not, could be a flaw in the coating?<e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE>

Yeah I can see them on the print. You have to look quite closely when I do it. <br/>
But when I get a mug from ...