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Hi

Myself and my wife just purchased a load of used sublimation equipment in the hope of running a small business from home.In the set up we were given 2 printers,an epson d88 and an epson 1290,which came with a brand new ciss. Turned out both printers were faulty so we bought another 1290 as we had the ciss and inks. Managed to get this all set up and working after hours of googling because it came without instructions!!. Finally set up,went to do a trial run and the image we transfered came out a completely different colour. Had a search around and it looks like its because I need the right icc profile for the printer, but I cant find it anywhere. Does anybody have a link for it please.

Also we did do another print,which was very basic colours,red blue and yellow,but this turned out fine.The colour that came out yellow was supposed to be gray,does this sound like the icc?

I suppose really we should have found some more information out before we bought the equipment,but it was a bit of an impulse buy

Thanks

Dan

Hi Dan,

It does sound like you probably need the ICC profile. I have one for the 1290 here. Do you know what inks are installed? Artainium, Rotech...hopefully one of these.

Justin

Hi Justin

Thanks for the reply,im pretty sure its not artainium ink,it came in 2 sealed bags and the bottles were labelled signel premium dye ink if that means anything to you?

Thanks

Dan

sorry full label is signel inkjet premium quality dye based ink

Signal inkjet sell dye-sub ink on eBay, I wonder if that's the company? They do sell 'proper' inks, Rotech etc. If the inks aren't licenced products, i.e. Artainium, Rotech and so on then the profiles won't be much use. You're welcome to try them but it'll be hit and miss. The only sure way would be to get a custom profile written.

All sublimation inks used in small format printers such as the 1290 are sold under licence by Sawgrass.

Thanks for your help,I wouldnt mind trying the rotech profile if thats ok.I kind of feel like giving up before we get started.Everything seems to be going wrong!! 2 printers packed up,get that sorted and now this problem,ran out of paper then mugs !!!

Thanks

Dan

It can be a rocky road at the start and we all make mistakes, I still do

I will send over a profile with instructions, what software do you print from?

Thanks, Im usig flexisign 8.1 but you can add third party icc profiles to it

Thanks

Dan

Are you wanting to do dye sublimation as I don't think these are sublimation inks.

Cheers John

John G wrote:Are you wanting to do dye sublimation as I don't think these are sublimation inks.

Cheers John

Hi

yes,we are doing mug printing etc. I have just been googling and that thought was coming into my mind too,just thinking that it should say something about sublimation on the bottle.I guess its going to be easier to buy a new ink set up.Which is better the artainium or rotech or does it not make much difference. Do you think I would be better off getting a complete new ciss setup?

Thanks for your replies

Dan