Not printing bright colours

[ned.lack]

Hi everyone!

I bought my first dye-sub printer the other day and i have had great fun experimenting with everything. However there is one thing that i am really struggling with.

I have a Sawgrass SG400 with Sublijet CMYK inks and using TruePix paper.

I use Adobe Illustrator to create my designs but when i am printing the images onto the paper the colours are really dull. on the attached image the paper on the right is the sublimation printer and the paper on the left is my standard office colour printer.

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I have set up the sawgrass printer profiles for adobe and i am using the power driver print driver.

Any help would be much appriciated!

[socialgiraffe]

Ignore the colours on a printed sheet, you will find that once pressed they will come out very differently and given that you are using quality gear and have set it up correctly it should print close to what you are expecting.

Dull is normally a good sign

[pisquee]

As above, but also, you want to use either the ICC profiles within the print dialogs of the Adobe software and print to the printer driver, OR print to the Power driver - otherwise you're essentially doubling up on colour correction