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very wise and true words there

I did laser mugs for a dozen years before starting sub with a D88 and CIS
Sub mugs were much better and had fewer failures over the laser setup, but after a year or two i did get leaks, mess, lines, and spoild mugs so upgraded to a Richo which is an awesome machine, if it costs 20% more per mug then that is 6p instead of 5p - hec who cares, it is fast and great on colour when used with the POWERDRIVER software which deals with colour management etc.
Since getting the Richo our mugs are much better quality, and i have only made one dud in over 500 mugs, and that wes because i put the paper in upside down! the Richo will take 1/3 of A4 sized sheets too so you get maximum usage.
i vote happy richo user!

logobear;20062 wrote:I did laser mugs for a dozen years before starting sub with a D88 and CIS
Sub mugs were much better and had fewer failures over the laser setup, but after a year or two i did get leaks, mess, lines, and spoild mugs so upgraded to a Richo which is an awesome machine, if it costs 20% more per mug then that is 6p instead of 5p - hec who cares, it is fast and great on colour when used with the POWERDRIVER software which deals with colour management etc.
Since getting the Richo our mugs are much better quality, and i have only made one dud in over 500 mugs, and that wes because i put the paper in upside down! the Richo will take 1/3 of A4 sized sheets too so you get maximum usage.
i vote happy richo user!

halleluia - I was beginning to get lonely ;0)

Anyone on here got one for sale?
I cant really afford to pay another £249+vat and then I would think postage.
Martin, What is the total cost and what is the capacity of the cartridges.

Tony

RRP of the SubliJetR cartridges are £40 + vat each and they hold 29ml of ink each.

I have bought the printer and inks from BMS Mart.

i have also ordered some blanks to get going AGAIN!

I have spent nearly £800 I think?

Any chance you could give me free postage and make sure I get by the weekend?

I will be a good customer once I get my act together.

I note there was a option for loyalty I think?

Can I have an advance on that?

Tony

Tony, this matter should really be discussed through Private Message and not in the general forum. Alternatively you should contact BMS through their own website as Martin has mentioned previously in the thread.

I had a very old Epson 1290 with completely blocked nozzles and now have a great working machine.
I went through hoops getting it working and had to do some dismantling of the machine. You may have to remove the top cover of your machine to get to the underneath of the print head and carrier.
Press the button to put the carts in change position and unplug the printer mains cable when they are half way across. This leaves you a cart that can be moved easily along the travel bar. Move the head to the cartridge change position and remove carts and retaining clip.
Tear strips of j cloth about 1/4 inch wide lightly soaked in windowlene and lay them under the path of the print head. Put a little windowlene (don't use any other product) over the cartridge carrier. Move the carrier over the j cloth and leave overnight. Next day replenish j cloth and using small squirts of windowlene soak the print had carrier. Move it back and forth over the j cloth to remove any ink under the heads. Keep doing this until the cloths are clean.
Use windowlene in a 5ml syringe. Take the delivery tube ( the one that goes from the bottom of the bottle to the trigger spray )from inside the windowlene bottle and place it on the end of the syringe. Now you have a head cleaning pressure hose! Put j cloth under the print heads and place the carrier over it. Now comes the tricky part. You have to place the plastic tube attached to the syringe onto the print heads one at a time. With very light pressure force a little windowlene out of the syringe and then suck it back up (repeat 4-5 times) finally squirt about 1 ml of fluid through the head. DO NOT use a lot of force as this will damage the print heads. Gentle pressure and a little fluid, about 1 ml per head. Do this for each print head.
Remove the syringe and tube and the j cloth. Clean round the heads, carrier and rollers with a dry cloth.
Obtain some cleaning fluid carts for your printer I bought mine from here. Follow the procedure they recommend.
I did a test print and head clean with some old original carts before putting in the sublimation ciss (artanium ink is expensive).
Now you are ready for the sublimation cartridges:
Before replacing the cartridges follow the procedure in the video below to prime them.

To re-prime ciss carts and heads following the advice in the video
here

Once done you can put it all back together and run a deep clean and test print. You may need 5-6 cleans before you see results.
I know it's a lot of work but when you haven't got money for a shiny new printer with all it's gel technology you have to get the most out of the old one. This is only what I did to get it going. I can't be held liable if you decide to try yourself, after all if you're going to launch it you have nothing to lose.

daviddeer;21827 wrote:I had a very old Epson 1290 with completely blocked nozzles

I have a 1290S that hadn't been used for a while and one of the colours just would not print no matter what I did. As I have other printers here, I prepared to chuck it.

However, at the time I was experimenting with another printer and using "unofficial" inks. With nothing to lose, I grabbed a couple of unused refillable cartridges for my 1290, put in the "unofficial ink", and with one quick head-clean, the printer began printing on all nozzles again.

I still don't understand it, but it worked. I now have it set up as a second backup printer. Crazy.

As Justin says TonyM, please contact our office. The DSF is nothing to do with us, we merely contribute to it. All our contact details are on our website, but the pseudonyms we use on here doesn't help me link actual customers to DSF members.