So I ended up buying mugs from Coastal along with their 4 in 1 mug press. I also got a Sawgrass SG400.
I have had nothing but issues with the press, mug quality and even the printer and its software. I am at my wits end with it all.
So last night I started testing my setup for 11 oz white mugs as I had been doing black mugs (which is another problem) And came to the settings of 370F for 250 seconds (as coastal recommends) which produced a perfect mug last night. Today I want to do an entire case of mugs. So I turn on the press and let it sit at 370F for about 5 - 10 minutes to make sure its good and hot. I put my first mug in it came out perfect. I then put my next mug in and its faded. I try upping the time to 260 faded more, so I figured maybe I need to reduce the time to 240 faded even more. So then I start messing with the pressure and make it firmer, faded worse, back off the pressure faded, really back off the pressure really faded, go back the other way applying more pressure still faded. No matter what I have done I cannot get a second mug to come out good i have now burned through 11 mugs with no success.
I was having problems last night with the very left corner of the image being faded, it seems when I moved my graphic inwards (away from the handle of the mug) by 1/8" that resolved the fading issues last night.
I do not know what to do I am beginning to think it is the type of press I have as the center knob depending on how you adjust pressure seems to make the cuff distort so that either the left or right side of the cuff is large or smaller than the other side.
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