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I've been printing on mugs and T shirts using a Ricoh 3110 and Cityink inks.
I always seem to get the prints a lot darker than the originals.
Mugs, I do at 170o for 170 secs and have varied this by 5o and 5 secs with no appreciable difference.
T shirts at 200o for 120 secs.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, it does seem to be a problem with my printer rather than the sub part of the process.

Sublimation Tees (I assume you have subli t's?) are usually 60 secs if I remember correctly, not done any in a while.

Do you have a profile installed?

What paper are you using?

I always seem to get the prints a lot darker than the originals.

Not quite sure what you mean by this?

The sublimation prints on paper bear very little resemblance to the pressed prints. They look dull and the colours are off, so you can't compare the print straight from the printer with the finished image.

I can PM you a link to various ICC profiles for CIE inks, depending on what printer/paper/OS you have.

Also, you can't compare what you have on your monitor with the pressed print unless your monitor is calibrated with it's own profile. It's quite common to find prints from Photoshop, for example, turning out darker than thought. This can usually be overcome by increasing the brightness of the image (maybe by 30 to 40% in some cases) before printing. The screen image will look very light, but the print will be fine.

webtrekker;131181 wrote:Not quite sure what you mean by this?

The sublimation prints on paper bear very little resemblance to the pressed prints. They look dull and the colours are off, so you can't compare the print straight from the printer with the finished image.

I can PM you a link to various ICC profiles for CIE inks, depending on what printer/paper/OS you have.

Also, you can't compare what you have on your monitor with the pressed print unless your monitor is calibrated with it's own profile. It's quite common to find prints from Photoshop, for example, turning out darker than thought. This can usually be overcome by increasing the brightness of the image (maybe by 30 to 40% in some cases) before printing. The screen image will look very light, but the print will be fine.

Thanks for that response.
It's the way the images turn out that I was referring to, sorry for not making that clear.
I use Truepix paper but would be grateful for a link to other profiles.

Thanks Justin I made a typo, I use 60 secs. I do have a profile and am using Truepix paper.
Btw, please ignore my email, problem solved. Sorry.

Hi, sorry to be a [ain but could you please resend the link to the profiles please?

ScotTs;140872 wrote:Hi, sorry to be a [ain but could you please resend the link to the profiles please?

Hi. PM sent.