Mug Printing Black turning Gold and Red turning Orange Please help

[cornwall0410]

Hi just tried to print my first mugs and only tried writing, the black comes out gold and the reg comes out orange, have a new ricoh sg3110 and was printing through Gimp. was putting mug in press and heating untill 180 and letting it countdown from 180 secs , sorry to ask but any ideas what im doing wrong many thanks

[Paul]

all printed via powerdriver?

[Justin]

Sounds like overheating, black going brown/gold. Can you confirm your print method and time/temp. What press are you using? I always heat up with a blank in to protect the blanket. Once up to temp I cook for 180 secs.

[cornwall0410]

Hi Paul, i signed up to your site today, thanks for trying to help me, i know this sounds silly buy what is POWER DRIVER? sorry to sound pathetic.....

[Justin]

You'll need powerdriver installed to print properly through Gimp. Have you followed setup instructions on Sawgrass website for your printer?

[cornwall0410]

hi Justin, i have been putting the press on to 180 degrees putting the mug in and clamping while it is heating and then counting down 180 seconds when temp hits 180 degress, the press is a new one in the deal from coral graph

[cornwall0410]

no i thought that was only if you bought from them? i watched the video on you tube but thought that was only for their customers as you need to put codes in they give you, also coral graph dont use their inks on the printer

[Justin]

Deffo overcooking Try my method. Sacrifice a blank mug and always have this in the blanket whilst the press is heating/cooling. Get the press up to temp. 180c is good but maybe slightly lower for Ricoh ink. 180 secs is a good starting point as well.

Make sure you've set the printer and the Powerdriver up as per instructions here:
http://www.sawgrasseurope.com/technical ... sublijet-r

Coralgraph will be using Sawgrass inks in this printer so you are able to register for Powerdriver.

[cornwall0410]

good morning, ive downloaded powerdriver, is that i need to do? will it automaticaaly be picked up when i go to print?

[pisquee]

When you go to print, you select PowerDriver instead of the standard Ricoh driver.
I'd be very surprised if CoralGraph aren't supplying Sawgrass inks with the printer - they may be branded differently, as VisiSub, but it still the same ink.
For our mug printing we start the timing as soon as the mug is in - if the temp is dropping too much when the mug is put in, then we adjust the temp of the press to accommodate this, especially if the mugs have come straight from storage, which is colder than the workrooms .. our presses have ended up set at 200 degrees and 200 seconds, which gives the best results for our mugs - you will need to play around to find what is best for the mugs, inks, presses you have. The temp that your press reports to be may not actually be the temperature is, to find out how well it is calibrated you will need a suitable thermometer to measure it.