How long to dry?

[JMugs]

Sorted ... No pre-press, two sheets of chip paper as blowout, cook for 150 seconds, very high pressure.

Janners

[Alastair@Xpres]

Hey JMugs,

I just spoke with the technical guys who mentioned that the issue here is most likely pressing time, as you commented you work in a very cold environment, the panel therefore is likely not warming properly. As a result you will need top try pressing for quite a bit longer. As you aren't using one of our presses I am going on the assumption it works as well as one of the Adkins we sell so trying a longer press time should work but unfortunately the tech guys were not sure what inks you were using.
Do you know what type of ink you have in your printer?
We usually find when getting results like this, you will need to press for a longer time, the bad news is this is trial and error with your equipment as our times and temps are basically a control example on our equipment in our demo suite.

In regards to the endura fabric Justin, it is usually used with metal panels that are on the larger side to absorb any excess moisture in the middle of the panel as this has nowhere to escape, this prevents any potential mottling of the print on the large panels especially. Additionally this will also help reduce chipping however to really reduce chipping to effectively nil I have come up with some specific instructions to do this.

If you need me help from the tech guys JMugs just let me know and I will get them to email you again with further instruction, my email is in my signature so just let me know. Thanks

[JMugs]

Hi Alistair
Thanks for the reply. Sorted now, it was down to pressing time. being a wide format user I am on sublinova inks. I also run a ricoh A4 printer with Sawgrass inks for the small quick jobs and find pressing times for both set ups are identical.

I use rear panel out of a 3XL polyester Tshirt for the large aluminium panels and works a treat. Oddly not needed for the MDF panels....strange world!

[Justin]

In regards to the endura fabric Justin, it is usually used with metal panels that are on the larger side to absorb any excess moisture in the middle of the panel as this has nowhere to escape, this prevents any potential mottling of the print on the large panels especially. Additionally this will also help reduce chipping however to really reduce chipping to effectively nil I have come up with some specific instructions to do this.

It's advertised along with the wooden panels as well, I have seen moisture on these so I guess it's useful for both?