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Excellent, you see - if you have the right equipment people can help. if you use cheap inks from an unknown vendor and an obscure printer etc nobody knows where to start.
Buying recognised gear is more expensive but at least you can earn money from it - cheap stuff is just a waste, although it can teach you a lot (mostly what not to do).

I tried the cheap route, and regretted it.

Becoming a Premium Member here will save you money too - Honestly I have saved hundreds from doing that.

That's not strictly true though Nik.

Any piezo head based printer should work with sublimation inks (which usually means Epson or Brother inkjet, or more recently Ricoh, although you'd need a different ink formulation for these) although spending a bit more money than the cheapest model is helpful. I doubt any printer available from Epson or Brother could really be called 'obscure.' Printer drivers tend to be pretty similar between printers from the same manufacturer.

As long as the sublimation ink is not total junk, then usually the only missing part is getting an ICC profile made - and this is usually the advice people need, and receive time and time again from here, along with a suggestion of going to Paul to get this done.

Essentially, anyone putting sublimation ink into an inkjet printer is doing something that the printer was not meant to do, and this whole industry was borne from that, with all the experimenting and problem solving that goes with it. But from that history, printers themselves are a lot better, and sublimation inks more refined, and ICC profiling hardware and software packages a lot more affordable. It really isn't that hard to set up a sublimation printing system with inks, cart/CISS, and printer sourced yourself from different suppliers, and plenty of video guides on YouTube showing what you need to do, and 100s if not 1000s of posts on forums like this one walking people through it, and offering advice to commonly found problems. With that this forum (and others) have probably helped 100s, if not 1000s, of people get their systems up and running properly - surely that's one of the purposes of a forum like this.