Bought a Ricoh 3350 to test as a sublimation printer with non-Sawgrass/non-gel inks

[viccar]

Well, 181ml is large to those of us that only have 100ml cartridges...

Mind you, it's positively astonishing for an Epson printer - the company that invented thimble sized cartridges so small that "one whiff and it's empty" (oh, hang on, that was HP wasn't it? :biggrin:).

and even larger than those of us with 29ml

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Two Ricohs delivered today
Not had time to unbox them yet though
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1 printer unpacked,
refill carts filled and slotted into printer
downloading drivers

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just realised don't know where A4 sublimation paper is as haven't needed to use it in years, will have to use normal paper for initial testing

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Perfect nozzle check printed on cheap supermarket A4 paper- the ink certainly is flowing and being squirted onto the page fine so far.

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Well, all good so far ...need to find/get some A4 sublimation paper, and make the ICC profile

[Paul]

can you not just cut A4 out of your big roll??

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I may have to - not sure I can wait over the weekend for a delivery! ... probably got some offcuts from already printed bits with more than an A4 section or two around. Now not sure I have anything suitable for printing the targets onto for the ICC -have to do some digging around the stores.

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OK, so rough A4 sheet cut from the roll
1 test print done from our profiled Epson, and one 1 test print done from Ricoh with only standard Ricoh settings/profile, and both pressed onto same mug in one pressing (and both using the same non-Sawgrass ink)...

Here are photos taken just on my phone (so not great for reference)

This is the Epson:
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This is the Ricoh (un-mirrored to make sure I could tell the difference once pressed!)
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Once I have the Ricoh profiled I will do some proper shots in the white box with the SLR.

The colours I am not too fussed about at the moment, as it isn't a fair comparison with the Ricoh not being profiled, but it was more of a teat to see what the print quality was like, which I admit you can't really tell from these camera photos! From a print quality point of view, the Ricoh is more 'blotchy'/less defined - the colour squares for instance haven't got crisp edges, like the black ink is running into the colours a little - more so on the reds

[Paul]

sweet.i think after you profile your ricoh it will improve the quality too