How to dry the ink on the paper??

[Photomouse]

Hi, I'm printing on an Epson F6000 dye sublimation printer and using a paper take up to roll the printed paper back up. The problem I'm having is drying the ink in time before it starts rolling back onto the take up.

Does anyone know of a way to dry the ink? Would an infrared heater solve this? Is there a better solution? I've been using 2 fans but they don't really work.

Thanks

[pisquee]

Yes, infrared would work, as would slowing the print speed, or amount of ink used, or paper which handles ink better

[Photomouse]

We have tried different papers like texprint and truepixs but they never seemed to release the ink enough to penetrate the pile of the fabrics, where as inktec paper does. But that comes at a cost, the ink sits on top of the paper. Is there another roll paper option?

I don't really want to slow the speed down, that was the main reason for buying the F6000. If infrared heaters or a different paper would help, I'd rather go down that route. Are you using infrared heaters?

thanks

[pisquee]

We found Coldenhove papers were best, but moved to Inktec as we could get it cheaper as we're an InkTec dealer, if it wasn't for this, we'd still be using Coldenhove. Jetcol highspeed is what we used, but they have a range of papers for different purposes - I think iSub are the main UK dealers, so may be worth getting in touch with them for samples of the different types.
http://www.i-sub.co.uk/inks/sublimation ... coldenhove

[Photomouse]

Ok, thanks for the advice I'll have a look at papers you've suggested.