How to Maintain Your Large-format Dye-Sublimation Inkjet Printer?

Hi, Nice to see you again, my dear friends! As we know,everyone wants a dye-sublimation printer that performs every day and is reliable.

By performing basic preventative maintenance routines on your wide-format dye-sub printers, you can both prolong the life of your printer investment and ensure its day to day quality performance.

Most owners/operators of wide-format dye-sub inkjet printers can perform this routine housekeeping on their own. Be sure to check with your vendor to see what preventative maintenance training resources are available to you when you buy the printer. These simple preventative steps will save you big bucks on expensive break-fix repairs in the long run.

How to prolong the life of your inkjet printer? Please Following below:
Keep your dye-sub printer in a clean area, free from lint, dust and any dirt. Cover it when not in use, and vacuum the inside of the print cabinet area gently as often as needed.

Exercise your inkjet printer daily. Even a simple nozzle check will keep it in shape. It is cheaper to print a basic color chart, test pattern, or any nozzle pattern than fixing a clogged head.

Dye-sublimation inkjet printers operate best in a humidity of 35–45 percent. This is why they are usually located in their own clean, humidified room to maintain consistent conditions. Along with a room humidifier, you can place a humidor sponge inside your printer at rest.

Periodic cleaning and inspection of the overall ink delivery system is a must. Check these components frequently, as they are what keep your printer in top-operating condition. More information on cleaning the wipers, capping station, and the flushing system can be found in more detail here.

Training is one the most important aspects of buying a wide-format dye-sublimation printer from each vendor and your local reseller or systems integrator. They should be available to assist you with proper installation, as well as any basic procedures and training resources to enable you to become self-sufficient in the day to day operation of dye-sub printers.

Ultimately, it is your responsibility as the owner of any digital printing or finishing equipment to learn how to best operate and maintain that equipment and keep it in top condition. If you don’t know how to best run and maintain the equipment, you are setting yourself up for a tough time keeping it operational.

Dye-sub printer manufacturers will have detailed instructions and published procedures on preventative maintenance and technical repair guides. There are now a lot of good YouTube videos, web blogs, and other public forums on how to best maintain digital printing equipment. A lot of the simple components, such as a print heads and wiper blades are available on the open market and can be simple to replace on most modern wide-format dye sub inkjet printers.

In concluding: 
By properly maintaining your large-format sublimation printer and learning how to protect your investment, you can gain many years of good use, produce high-quality products, and reduce your exposure to costly repairs. 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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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.

Nanjing Feiyue paper Industrial Co.,ltd
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Email: sales@feiyuepaper.com
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