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Paul;59703 wrote:quick answer: I DONT KNOW

Well, I'm disappointed in your lack of knowledge, consider your 'guru' status revoked!

Was only asking out of interest, although trying to reproduce some of my wife's paintings and designs is a pain as so much seems to be out of gammut, we can't afford to upgrade our sublimation printer at the moment.

pisquee;59704 wrote:Well, I'm disappointed in your lack of knowledge, consider your 'guru' status revoked!

i dont think i deserved for this status lol

JMugs;59676 wrote:Thanks Pisquee
In a nut shell I have learned today that certain colours have limitations, and essentially those are the ones that leap out, lime green, bright pink, and some ends of the red spectrum. Interesting reading!

Janners

I think this inability might also be to do with the brand of sublimation ink. I have seen vibrant colour reproduction of Disney pictures (with copyright!) using sublimation inks and these colours tend to be at the extremes of the colour gamut. The inks used were the SubliJet-IQ brand, which doesn't tend to be the most popular in the UK (Artainium is more popular). Ian at Novachrome would be the best person to speak to - he's been on here a couple of times - as they have been the distributors for this brand of ink mainly in the past.

The latest Epson WP-4015 takes the SubliJet-IQ brand of inks which is more generally available from several suppliers, albeit more expensive than the Ricoh SubliJet-R inks used in the Ricoh or the Artainium/ Rotech used in the Epsons.

I was avoiding the issue of other brands of sublimation ink

pisquee;59710 wrote:I was avoiding the issue of other brands of sublimation ink

They are all Sawgrass inks - all legal and above board for use in all supported small format printers

But am sure there are many big mug producers using wide format printers and using equally legal, licensed and supported non-Sawgrass professional sublimation inks too and getting good results with wider gammuts than domestic Sawgrass brands give.

logobear;59692 wrote:barbie pink is out of gamut

pisquee;59715 wrote:But am sure there are many big mug producers using wide format printers and using equally legal, licensed and supported non-Sawgrass professional sublimation inks too and getting good results with wider gammuts than domestic Sawgrass brands give.

Quite possibly but you've got to throw screen printing into the mix then with Pantone matching capabilities.

The OP was referring to an A4 (small format) printer and the range of the gamut. So whilst big producers of volume have other printing options, the issue related to small format, low volume printing which narrowed the field to the ink brands I mentioned.

Martin you are correct.
The amount of new info I gained over 8 hours of reading was amazing. Wouldn't recommend it for everyone! Suffice to say I am wiser than I was to start with. It really is quite fascinating once I got into it. I even explained it to Mrs Janner when she got home (she was thrilled....). But as she is getting more into her photography she did agree it was relevant (she does humour me!).
Thank you goes to those who have posted.

A wet Westcountry cheers to all

Janners.