Beer Stein Nightmares help please

[MREDD]

Hi All

I have been sublimating for a couple of years now, coffee mugs down to a reasonable fine art, travel mugs getting there, but having a total mare with ceramic steins.

I have a BMS DF-18 I think it's called & a coralgraph vertical mug press. They won't fit in the coralgraph machine & I thought that they would not fit the BMS machine so I bought a halogen oven from TFS

So far £20 down the pan at a fiver a go, the halogen one turned out shi*e I believe due to heat distribution.

Had the attempts in the BMS machine but the transfer fails to gass off properly right at the top & right at the bottom, the middle 90% or so is fine. I am using the 22oz Gold rim ones from Coralgraph, these have a raised edge top & bottom near the gold rims.

I am making sure that I stay away from the raised edges & I have reduced the size of the transfers three times, but still it happens.

Pressing at 180 for 180

Thoughts please anyone.

Regards

Ed

[Reg]

Use a silicon wrap and try 190 for 200sec

[samoht146]

I use these same steins from Coralgraph and use a standard 11 oz Heatpress mug press which opens only just wide enough to take the stein as does my PixMax press when both are open as wide as they go,you don't want a lot of pressureI press at 190 for three mins-perfect everytime-I might just be lucky.Good luck.