Do you know What the Time When You Should Clean the Epson Printhead

Hi, my friends, nice to see you again, there is also a nice day in Nanjing. Today I want to share you the topic about ---- cleaning the epson printhead. To achieve a high standard of printing, no matter what the model or age of the machine, performing printer maintenance is important. Any machine can break down if you don’t take proper care of it – especially when it comes to inkjet.

No matter if you use branded, compatible or reused cartridges, there is a chance of the ink drying out and clogging the nozzle. This can cause further problems if not addressed properly and could even cause your printer to break down. However, this can be solved by cleaning the printhead.

Here are some of the ways you can clean the printhead both manually, from a PC or Mac and via a programmed system.

Do you know what the time when you should clean the printhead?
If your printer is printing blank pages but your ink levels are normal the problem will, more than likely, be the water based printheads. If it has been a while since your last print, some of the ink in the cartridges may have dried out. This blocks up the printheads and allows no ink to pass through onto the paper. To fix these issues, the printheads will need cleaning.

Another sign is if your printouts are faded and not reaching the standard you’re used to, or if your documents are blurry. If this is the case, you may find that when you print images you’ll noticed that the image is missing one colour overall. This is due to the CMYK cartridge not producing all of its dot work.

A printer works by layering tiny dots in various formations, using CMYK to create the broad range of colours we see with the naked eye. CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and key, which is usually black. Each colour has its own nozzle, so if one is blocked such as, yellow, this will alter the layering technique of the dot work and affecting the colour produced on the page. Cleaning the printhead will help improve the quality of the printout.
It’s important to try to avoid cleaning the printhead as little as possible as it consumes quite a bit of ink. Only clean the print head when the quality of the print has declined and is noticeable.

You can clean the printhead either manually or from your printer or computer. Before you start, you’ll want to perform a nozzle check to ensure your printhead needs cleaning, as this will save ink.

How to clean an Epson printhead?
If you’re unsure on how to clean an Epson printhead these instructions should provide guidance. Most modern printers will have similar cleaning functions to the Epson, so this should help even if your printer isn’t of the Epson brand.
If the low ink light is flashing or permanently on, you do not need to perform a nozzle check. This is because you’re out of ink so the cartridge itself needs replacing.

If the ink light is off, hold the ink button down for three seconds, this will start the cleaning process. You’ll know the printer is working as the power and ink light will start flashing. It’s important you do not turn the printer off while this is happening as this could damage the machine.

Once the flashing has stopped, perform a nozzle check again to confirm that the print head is clean.

If you find that the problem continues, repeat the process. You may want to leave the printer overnight for the ink to settle before trying again.

Okay, These all above are my share about the tips of cleaning inkjet printer nozzles. Hope them can be useful to you. If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Thank you for your reading.

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Comparing with Traditional Inkjet Printers, What is the Advantages of Dye-sublimation Printer?

Hello, my friends, nice to see you again! Today's topic is about dye-sublimation printer. Comparing with traditional inkjet printers, do you know the advantages of dye-sublimation printer? If you don't know, it's doesn't matter! Now read the following and I will share you more.

Advantage of dye-sublimation printers
Traditionally, the advantage of dye-sublimation printing has been the fact that it is a continuous-tone technology, where each dot can be any color. In contrast, inkjet printers can vary the location and size of ink droplets, a process called dithering, but each drop of ink is limited to the colors of the inks installed. Consequently, a dye-sublimation printer produces true continuous tones appearing much like a chemical photograph. An inkjet print is composed of droplets of ink layered and scattered to simulate continuous tones, but under magnification the individual droplets can be seen. In the early days of inkjet printing, the large droplets and low resolution made inkjet prints significantly inferior to dye-sublimation, but some of today's inkjets produce extremely high quality prints using microscopic droplets and supplementary ink colors, producing superior color fidelity to dye-sublimation.

Dye sublimation offers some advantages over inkjet printing. For one, the prints are dry and ready to handle as soon as they exit the printer. Since the thermal head doesn't have to sweep back and forth over the print media, there are fewer moving parts that can break down. The whole printing cycle is extremely clean as there are no liquid inks to clean up. These factors make dye-sublimation generally a more reliable technology over inkjet printing.

Drawbacks of large format sublimation printers 
Dye-sublimation printers have some drawbacks compared to inkjet printers. Each of the colored panels of the ribbons, and the thermal head itself, must match the size of the media that is being printed on. Furthermore, only specially coated paper or specific plastics can accept the sublimated ink. This means that dye-sublimation printers cannot match the flexibility of inkjet printers in printing on a wide range of media.

The dyes diffuse a small amount before being absorbed by the paper. Consequently, prints are not razor-sharp. For photographs, this produces very natural prints, but for other uses (such as graphic design) this slight blurriness is a disadvantage.

The amount of wasted dye per page is also very high; most of the dye in the four panels may be wasted for a typical print. Once a panel has been used, even to just print a single dot, the remaining dye on that panel cannot be reused for another print without leaving a blank spot where the dye was used previously. Due to the single-roll design of most printers, four panels of colored dye must be used for every print, whether or not a panel is needed for the print. Printing in monochrome saves nothing, and the three unused color panels for that page cannot be recycled for a different single-color print. Inkjet printers can also suffer from 'dye wastage' as the ink cartridges are prone to drying up with low usage (without 'heavy use', the cartridge nozzles can become clogged with dried ink). Dye-sublimation media packs, (which contain both ribbon and paper), are rated for an exact number of prints which yields a fixed cost per print. This is in opposition to inkjet printers where inks are purchased by volume.

Notices of dye-sublimation printer

For environments that print confidential or secret documents, a dye-sublimation printer is a potential security risk that must be handled carefully. Due to the mechanism of printing, a perfect color-separated negative image of the printed page is created on the supply roll color panels, and the "waste roll" of dye panels can be unrolled to see everything that has been printed with the printer. For such environments, the waste roll should be shredded or incinerated onsite rather than simply being discarded in the trash. Also, for home users, the waste roll from a photo printer can be similarly recovered from the garbage and used to see everything that has been printed. Since the supply roll is plastic, the lifespan of a used roll can be years or decades long, permitting image recovery long after disposal.

Also, dye-sublimation papers and ribbons are sensitive to skin oils, which interfere with the dye's ability to sublimate from the ribbon to the paper. They must also be free of dust particles, which can lead to small colored blobs appearing on the prints. Most dye-sublimation printers have filters and/or cleaning rollers to reduce the likelihood of this happening, and a speck of dust can only affect one print as it becomes attached to the print during the printing process. Finally, dye-sublimation printers fall short when producing neutral and toned black-and-white prints with higher density levels and virtually no metamerism or bronzing.


From the above, now you can know the advantages of dye-sublimation transfer printer. If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Hope my article can be useful to you. Thank you for your reading.

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Do You Know What Kind of Environment is Your Sublimation Inkjet printer likes ---- Moisture or Dry?

Hi, Nice to see you! Today, I want to talk about the topic is sublimation inkjet printer's environment. If you just buy a inkjet sublimation printer, do you know what kind of environment is your sublimation inkjet printer likes ---- moisture or dry? If you don't know the answer, read the following and I will share you more!

PROTECT YOUR PRINTER’S ENVIRONMENT

The environment—most specifically, humidity and temperature—plays a big part in how an inkjet printer functions. Inkjet printers prefer a consistent temperature that is cool but not cold. Further, they love humidity between 40-60 percent. If your environment is very high humidity, and sublimators may still have problems with printers. But remember, it may be really humid outside, but inside your air conditioning has taken all the moisture out of the air. This is bad for your printer. It is suggested to run a humidifier inside your home near the printer to maintain inside humidity.

If you are working in your home, and have a basement, inkjet printers love to live there. I had an old epson sublimation printer with inks installed and had it stored in my basement for over a year unused. A basement is naturally cool and humid. I took the printer out and printed a test print, as I was curious, and the first print was perfect. That printer would not have printed, had it not been in my basement because the ink would have dried solid inside the print heads and would have been very difficult if not impossible to correct.

How to Protect the sublimation printer nozzles?

You should never leave your inkjet sublimation printer sit for an extended period of time without printing. The length of time depends on your environment. You should run at least a nozzle check periodically to move fresh ink through your print heads. Think of your nozzles as a cup of coffee that you leave sitting on your office desk. If you left it there for a couple weeks or maybe only a couple of days, the water would evaporate, leaving a brown crusty deposit. You would have to scrub pretty aggressively to clean out that mug.

The same thing can happen to a print head. The ink sits in the nozzle and the liquid evaporates over time, leaving a crusted over nozzle. You would have to run some head cleaning cycles to get all the nozzles to print correctly, and this wastes ink. I personally recommend running a nozzle check each day, although sometimes that can be hard to remember. It only takes a few drops of ink to do a nozzle check, but it takes a lot more to run cleaning cycles to clear a clogged printer.

You probably spent a lot of time researching sublimation printers before you eventually settled on the model you purchased. You ordered your package, and when it arrived, you set it up, and started creating sublimation products.

Now you have the knowledge of how your wide format inkjet printer works, and you know that you must provide your printer a good environment, and exercise it regularly. If you do these simple things, you can be confident that when you need your inkjet sublimation printer, it will print flawlessly.Thank you for your reading.If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Hope my article can be useful to you.

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Do you Know What Makes A Dye-Sublimation Transfer Printer Tick?

Hello, nice to see you. To day is cloudy in Nanjing. Today's topic is about Dye-Sublimation Transfer Printer, the inkjet printer is like any other piece of equipment. You must take care of it and maintain it in the proper environment, so that it works at its very best. If you don’t, just like other equipment, a sublimation printer can be frustrating. And sometimes sublimation printer appear ticks, do you know what happen to it?

And you do need to know what to do to take care of your equipment and not everyone is given this information, so I am going to tell you what makes a sublimation printer tick!

WHAT MAKES A SUBLIMATION PRINTER TICKS?

To take care of an inkjet sublimation printer, first we need to know some basics of how it works. First of all, in sublimation we use Epson inkjet printers. The reason for this is that Epson printers use a“cold” technology to spray the ink onto the paper. This technology is called Piezo head technology which is patented by Epson.

The epson print head has a small crystal that vibrates when stimulated with an electrical charge, and this forces the ink out of the print head nozzles. Since sublimation dyes are heat activated, it is perfect for the sublimation process. Other inkjet printers use heat to “boil” the ink onto the paper. This would not work so well for the sublimation process because the dyes would be activated before we wanted them to.
There are basically two ways to deliver ink to a printer, either cartridges (including refillable), or an external bulk ink delivery system. These cartridges work well, but they are very low capacity, and not very cost effective, so a bulk ink system is preferred.

With a bulk ink system, the ink is contained in bags. The ink feeds through tubing,
up to damper cartridges that install where regular cartridges would be. The bulk system works as a siphon system that is at equilibrium. That is why it is important to keep the container with the ink on the same level as the printer. If you put it higher, the ink could start siphoning into the printer, and if it is lower, the ink will run back into the bags. Either outcome can cause serious problems.

Occasionally with bulk systems, a damper cartridge may lose its prime. Your ink bag may have run empty or the hose may have kinked, cutting off the free flow of liquid. The system loses it prime and will not pull ink through to the print heads. When this happens, a printer cleaning cycle (done through your printer driver) may correct the problem. If not, you need to re-prime that damper cartridge.

Okay, These all above are my share about what makes inkjet sublimation printer ticks. If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Hope my article can be useful to you. Thank you for your reading.

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What Digital Inkjet Printers are Suitable for Sublimation Transfer Paper?

Hi, Nice to see you.Today, it is very hot! The reall summer is coming! After the introduce of the laser cutting machine in the last articles.Today the topic is about the Digital inkjet printer. Do you know the inkjet printers which are suitable for sublimation transfer paper? If you don't know clearly about it,read the following and I will share you more.

What is the sublimation transfer paper?

Sublimation transfer is to print the portrait, landscape, text or other graphics onto the inkjet paper which is specially used for sublimation transfer through the inkjet printer which is with the sublimation transfer ink, then heat it up to about 200 degree by using the heat transfer equipment, to make the sublimation transfer ink on the sublimation transfer paper sublimated and substrates into the medium, in the end, the colored images on the transfer paper can be vividly transfered to the textiles, mugs, ceramic plates, metal and other materials, it is a new technology.

Sublimation printer is the difference from commercial printing in the aspect that they use heat to transfer dye onto various materials. This technology is frequently used by textile manufacturers to place dyes on their products. Other uses include photographic prints, ID cards and much more.

Let us explore the process. Sublimation printers use different ink cartridges which use cyan, magenta, yellow and overcoating colors as opposed to the traditional cyan, magenta, yellow and black found in inkjet printers.

The design layout is printed on a substrate. This acts as the medium of transfer. The design is printed on this sublimation transfer sheets and is placed on the medium to which the transfer is to be made. The sheet is placed on it and by application of calculated heat, the transfer is done. This heat applied on this special combination, changes depending on the substrate. During the transfer, dye is applied on a molecular level. They penetrate the medium and when coated with an overcoat become water proof and are present for an indefinite duration.

Owing to the unique blend that is required for the sublimation process and also the properties of the sublimation ink, regular inkjet printers are not cut out for the task and are actively avoided. However, there are exceptions to this and a few inkjet printers with unique settings specific to this task can perform sublimation printing.

What Digital Inkjet Printers are Suitable for Sublimation Transfer Paper?

Common inkjet printer: Epson: C65、830u、R210、R310、R800、1520K、EX3、1290、2100、Lenovo：CJ100 and so on.
Wide-format inkjet printer: SURE COLOR F-series F6070 F7070 F6200 F7170 F9200 F6200 F7270 F6000 F7000 and so on;
MIMAKI TS3 TS3OOP TS3-1600 TS34 JV33 JV300 JV4 JV5 and so on;
Roland, Mutoh, MS and so on.

Okay, These all above are my share about the answer of the question---The dye sublimation printers which are suitable for sublimation transfer paper. If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Hope my article can be useful to you. Thank you for your reading.

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