Continuious Ink system

[louise020171]

Please could anyone help me and give me some information on my epson D120 printer. I have a continious ink supply for sublimation printing. I have a lot of mugs and things to do for people for xmas and the printer will not play ball and just print lovely pictures to print onto things, it either comes out very pinky or says it is out of ink so you have to take the cartridge out and shake it and clean the nozzles and at the moment nothing is working and i have so much to do for xmas. I only started up doing this in may and everything has been self taught as didnt get any help from the guy i bought all the stuff from (said he was at the end of a phone, but never was). I would really like anyone to help with advice with this problem as need to do these things asap but dont know what else to try.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP !!!

Karen xx

[Justin]

Hi Karen,

Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you're having problems.

Do you get a broken pattern when you do a nozzle check? If so, does this clear after 1 or more head cleans?

Have you tried purging the ink into the carts, i.e. drawing the ink through with a large syringe?

Justin

[GoldRapt]

Hi karen,
welcome to the mad house.
Did you get a profile with the cis?

[Paul]

icc profile and r they artanium inks?

[louise020171]

Hi Karen,

Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you're having problems.

Do you get a broken pattern when you do a nozzle check? If so, does this clear after 1 or more head cleans?

Have you tried purging the ink into the carts, i.e. drawing the ink through with a large syringe?

Justin

Hi justin,

yes i get a broken pattern when i do a nozzle check and blue doesnt appear but there is ink in the cart. done several cleaning checks. i have put ink into the carts but still a problem. Why is the magenta one coming off so much in the picture everything has a pink tinge and doesnt look right.
many thanks
karen

[louise020171]

Hi karen,
welcome to the mad house.
Did you get a profile with the cis?

Hi,
what do you mean i have a disc and a booklet with it. Sorry new to it all and i am self taught.

karen x

[louise020171]

icc profile and r they artanium inks?

hi,

Yes they are artanium tanks and i have a disk with it, do i need to load it to the computer and is there something on there.
sorry to ask so many questions just want to get it right.

karen

[swimwivsquid]

Karen, you need to clear the printer heads so that you know the printer is working properly. Have you got ordinary inks that you can put back into the printer instead of the Artanium system. If so use these to do the cleaning cycle they will clean the nozzels more effectively. Then when you are happy that the nozzles are working fine put the artanium system back in. Next stage will be to check for an icc or icm profile on the cd that you have. What software are you using to print from? This will help us to advise you.
Regards Richard

[bms]

You will get a pink tone if the cyan isn't coming through properly so to start with the nozzle check has to be perfect. There's no point trying to print if the nozzle check issue hasn't been sorted out first.

I'd suggest you start by re-priming all the ink cartridges. You can do this by removing them from the printer and putting the syringe that came with the system (not with the needle) into the base of each cartridge. Pull back on the syringe to suck ink from the bottles through and refill the cartridge. Do this with the bottles of ink at the same level as the cartridges to prevent the ink from simply being drawn back out of the cartridges by gravity. Do this with each cartridge in turn to refill them and put the ink drawn out back into the bottles (clean the syringe each time).

You should get pure liquid ink coming through into the syringe, but if it is foaming (or very bubbly) then there is an air leak in the system somewhere and you may need to get the cartridge system replaced - you can get the cartridges and tubes as a replacement part and these connect into your bottles where the lock nuts are.

Assuming you have reprimed okay then you should be able to perform a good nozzle check. From then on you will be on the road to proper prints, subject to making sure the printer is set up correctly via the Control Panel and also that your graphics package is configured properly (both of these are explained in detail in the pdf documents that are on your CD that came with your system).

[louise020171]

You will get a pink tone if the cyan isn't coming through properly so to start with the nozzle check has to be perfect. There's no point trying to print if the nozzle check issue hasn't been sorted out first.

I'd suggest you start by re-priming all the ink cartridges. You can do this by removing them from the printer and putting the syringe that came with the system (not with the needle) into the base of each cartridge. Pull back on the syringe to suck ink from the bottles through and refill the cartridge. Do this with the bottles of ink at the same level as the cartridges to prevent the ink from simply being drawn back out of the cartridges by gravity. Do this with each cartridge in turn to refill them and put the ink drawn out back into the bottles (clean the syringe each time).

You should get pure liquid ink coming through into the syringe, but if it is foaming (or very bubbly) then there is an air leak in the system somewhere and you may need to get the cartridge system replaced - you can get the cartridges and tubes as a replacement part and these connect into your bottles where the lock nuts are.

Assuming you have reprimed okay then you should be able to perform a good nozzle check. From then on you will be on the road to proper prints, subject to making sure the printer is set up correctly via the Control Panel and also that your graphics package is configured properly (both of these are explained in detail in the pdf documents that are on your CD that came with your system).

Thankyou for this information i will try this tomoz as need a break till then as it has stressed me out and need clear head. Just need to get it right.