Text image blured on mug

[cupsforcops]

I've now tried, lower pressure, lower time, higher time, higher pressure low time, high time. The only difference is low pressure seems to give a patchy image, some dark, some light. Whatever I do, it's still blurry. The image is still sharp on the paper. I think now, it can only be the mugs! Very annoying!

[Dave271069]

Morning, Can i make a sugestion, put some images up of the mugs on the thread for us to see, someone no doubt will be able to help or advice you even better, remember a picture tells a thousand words.
Dave

[Paul]

+1 for this one dave!

cupsforcops, try to higher the temp up to to 190-200C and see what happens. I am not expecting great results but we will see if sharpness improve or not.

[cupsforcops]

I will do that, good idea. Don't know if a photograph will show it very well, but I'll try. Just trying a photograph now, to see how that looks

[cupsforcops]

http://www.cupsforcops.co.uk/proofs/P1000909.JPG

This is just a picture of some of my wasted mugs. Can't get one close enough in focus to be able to upload it. I will try using my tripod and posting one later

[Paul]

it would be helpful to take photo of them ptint towards camera

[cupsforcops]

it would be helpful to take photo of them ptint towards camera

Yeah I did, this one was just to show you some of the wasted mugs!!! I have taken them but the picture's themselves are blurred as I'm too close even with the Macro, might be able to put the camera on the table and try again.

[cupsforcops]

These two pictures are of probably the worst one of the lot. This shows really bad bleeding/blurring, most are not as bad as this, but this is a good indication of the problem. Incidentally, just did a photograph one and it is perfect!

www.cupsforcops.co.uk/proofs/P1000914.jpg

and

www.cupsforcops.co.uk/proofs/P1000913.jpg

[Renniwano]

Can I ask a question... do you tape your artwork down to your mug before clamping ?

[Justin]

To me that 'looks' like ghosting off the paper or bleed. Only time I've seen was when paper shifted during print (not taped securely) or didn't come straight off when removed. I dunk all mugs in room temp. water. You'll see the dunk/fan/leave methods discussed in detail on the forum already so I won't go into this but for me at least I need to cool quickly to avoid bleeding.