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Greeting all, hoping the wise members of this forum can assist me.
Bought a mug press of ebay, the paper, mugs etc. All from people with decent feedback etc
Was a little too excited when it came and had a crack at it using my normal ink. Mugs came out yellow.
then got a ciss system with sub ink for my epson dx4450 and after a bit of wrangling got it working. Printed out some images and tried again.
Now nothing at all printed on the mug, not one remnant of anything and the press seemed to be working as the mugs were scorchio when i took them out.
Now from my bit of reading round these forums ive read about the icc profile, which i have not sorted. i was printing directly from photoshop and the images were awesome looking. ( i gather thats not right either as images should be dull) I emailed supplier of ciss system and he says it is sub ink in the system. I'm now at a bit of a loss.
The press, mugs and paper seem to be correct cause of the yellowing to the first mugs, surely it points to the ink, but if even if it was standard ink and not sub it would press something on the mug.
Looking 4wrd to some wise words to help steer me in right direction.
Cheers
Margey

Hi Margey,

have you got a link for the item you bought as it sounds like the ink you got was not sublimation ink - or it could be the mugs are not sublimatable?

seeing the link would help

Adam

Hi Margey and welcome to the forum

We need to copy this thread into a more relavant section to ensure you get the quickest and best answers.

Justin
DSF Admin

Hi Adam, mugs and paper are from coralgraph. heres the ciss......http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280754958387

madmargey;33610 wrote:Hi Adam, mugs and paper are from coralgraph. heres the ciss......http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280754958387

The ink is dye based ink - it says this in the title.

You need sublimation ink - there lies the problem ............

in response to moving thread, do i need to do something or can u sort it ur end??

Thanx Adam,can u suggest a good supplier, is it awkward introducing new ink to the system??

madmargey;33612 wrote:ok, do i need to do something or can u sort it ur end??

sort it out my end?

You need sublimation ink to transfer an image onto a substrate (this turns to gas and then bonds to a suitable surface under pressure - easy explanation).

.......................... also, to add that just getting sublimation ink is not the end of the problem as you'll need to make sure you have a profile as all ink is different and you'll see this when printing out photos etc.

Still confused with the 'sort it my end' bit though?

Have you got dye ink in the system already?

sorry was responding to Justin about moving thread. yeah the system had ink in it and ive been using it