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My name is Paul and I live in London. I have a show and a book called Guerilla Aspies, and I have been requested for merchandise to go with both. (I am playing the Edinburgh Fringe next week).

A story you have all heard before I would guess? I bough the Ricoh printer and the heat plate press (not too cheap or expensive) and proceeded to use the time and temperature settings I came across online. A career in merchandise clearly awaited me.

So far I have produced wonderful yellow only prints on my polyester test t shirt, and a pair of bright yellow only prints onto my test mug. Both print outs where rich in different colours of course.

What am I doing wrong please?

Thank you all.

hi Paul,

good luck at the fringe. if you need any embroidery email info@abcembroidery.co.uk or want to outsource anything you may need, we do printing and engraving aswell.

calvinabc

Hi Paul,
Nice to meet you.
My only advice at this stage is to go for GENUINE inks if you only starting out. I know its tempting to go for cheaper inks but at the end of the day you need to remember... Buy cheap, buy twice.

Thanks everyone.

I tried to post a few days ago but it didnt register. Basically I used the cartridges supplied assuming that since I had bought a printer sold as a sublimation gel unit, they would be too. Nooo! So now I have refillable cartridges on the way. Wrong ink! Thanks.

Refillable inks? What model is the printer? If it is a 3110 you really need sawgrass inks and the powerdriver profile. There are many threads on here about starting up. The best advice I can give is go to a reputable supplier who gives full support and customer service. I am not saying your supplier does not do this but if they didn't put big red letters saying don't put the Ricoh inks into the machine then I would not think so. These need flushing out and even then of it is not a 3110 there may be trouble ahead.


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Hi Paul and welcome to the forum

Justin
DSF Admin

Attempted Printer Paul;114083 wrote:Thanks everyone.

I tried to post a few days ago but it didnt register. Basically I used the cartridges supplied assuming that since I had bought a printer sold as a sublimation gel unit, they would be too. Nooo! So now I have refillable cartridges on the way. Wrong ink! Thanks.

Flush with distillled water _ NOT TAP WATER. you can get this from halfords if you have one close by . then put new inks in and flush again theres plenty of online youtube clips on how this is done.

Thank you.

They came out yellow again on the test t shirt and the mug? So its an issue with flushing the wrong inks? Its turning into an epic battle! I assume the time and temp's are right anyhow. I use blank ceramic mugs and a polymer test t shirt.

Really appreciate everyones support here. Thank you.

Paul.