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Hi

I have purchased the combo press 8 in 1 machine from Love Cut and have tried pressing mugs with a main bold colour and text in white at 180C for anywhere between 180 and 210 seconds. We are getting a formal step and repeated ghosted image of a rectangle with decreasing rectangles inside it, all around it. I will upload a picture to try and show it.

We are using a Ricoh 3110DN printer with trupix paper and visi-sub ink.

Any advice as to what is wrong and how to stop it?
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to hot for to long like for ricoh.
also increase your pressure.

From your description it sounds like the blanket may be the problem. Are you using firm pressure?

What would you recommend for heat/time?

Justin;65533 wrote:From your description it sounds like the blanket may be the problem. Are you using firm pressure?

As firm as we can get it i think!

Just tried a mug at 170C at 150 seconds but still have patterns....the patterns seems to be in the same place on every mug. Could it be a problem with the mugs? they were brought from Love Cut too?

Lovecut don't have a very good reputation at all I'm afraid. I'd certainly try different mugs. I've only seen this once before and a new blanket cured it but you have a combination of Lovecut products that I personally would never recommend Have a search on the forum for Lovecut and you'll see what I mean.

You could also try a thin silicone insert as this can help the problem. If you do that you need to increase time and temp a little to compensate...may well sort you out though.

Justin;65541 wrote:Lovecut don't have a very good reputation at all I'm afraid. I'd certainly try different mugs. I've only seen this once before and a new blanket cured it but you have a combination of Lovecut products that I personally would never recommend Have a search on the forum for Lovecut and you'll see what I mean.

You could also try a thin silicone insert as this can help the problem. If you do that you need to increase time and temp a little to compensate...may well sort you out though.

Thank you for your help, it seems that i may have purchased some rubbish equipment/materials! I shall try different mugs from another supplier and see if that helps, if not try a silicon insert or another machine.

Thank you

Try the silicone first, should only be a few pound. I always use the red oxide sheets that you can get off eBay.

If it is in the same place.. maybe turn the mug the other way and try that ?? to see if it could be the blanket ?