Hi guys. I'm just about to get into sublimation using the above printer setup and looking at where I'll be buying my ink from. From what I can see Inktec Sublinova is the way to go. Price wise it's pretty pricey at £55 for 600ml (I have 6 colour printer) so guess it therefore makes sense to bulk buy 6x 1litre bottles at £319 from inkexpress who ive used in the past and get on well with.
But my question is, for photoprinting I currently use a cis with 100ml bottles which is manageable, but how do you practically get the ink into the cis without it spilling it everywhere? Seems like it's going to be a right fuss decanting, using funnels etc.
Anyone got experience/advice?
I have two 1500w's one of which I intend to swap from pigment ink cis to sub dye cis by buying a new clean cis. Will that work, or will I have to flush the print-head though somehow first?
Press wise I'm looking at the HP8305 from bms as it's within budget and seems to get decent reviews on here at least and able to press most thicknesses of substrates. Anyone using this printer/press/ink setup?
What heat transfer paper would you recommend? I'll be doing photo slates, garments, plaques and clocks to start with. Also I read yesterday with interest someone saying they were managing to saving and getting even better colour depth by simply using inkjet photopaper??
Lastly where's best for buying my blanks (slates, clocks etc)? Or do you guys use a range of suppliers depending on what youre buying? I know of listawood, dyesubsupplies, xpres, bms; assume theyre the main ones?
Cheers, any expert advice greatly appreciated!