SilverSwan

So we have replaced the head and have no issues on print but we have noticed that the sharpness of a printed image isn't sharp can anyone help with this at all as everything is perfect on checks just not very sharp despite the design being crisp in sharpness

we are in the same boat but with daily use and keeping all tempretures/humidity perfect, the prints start great and then the white ink slowly starts to drop out

So we use our printer daily and recently during print our ink starts off nice and thick and then midway through a run turns stripey anyone know what the deal is img attached

So I have tried alot of things before coming here so my white ink is part of a self circulation system, My Humidity is 37% my white ink prints in lines (picture attached) this happens during print, it starts off fine but gradually becomes this and hardly covers the image can anyone help, much appreciated and thank you in advance edit to add: we run the printer daily and have noticed even when the white seems ok it still has these lines but its less noticeable, we haven't changed any settings and we run the printer daily

Can anyone recommend an extraction fan or just point me in the direction of a fan and ducting suitable for the oven on a shaker machine please, its times like these i feel helpless lol

OK so we are working out our kinks i have removed a plate from my older heat press, how long and at what temp for it to cure using this method? can we recure the older dtfs we gave done?

thank you, The shaker we have came with the printer and the duo cost us $6500 it had a fuse which we changed it came back on then popped off

Thank you, I read so many places online that it can be cured via the heat press hence why we where doing it, although this residue we are also getting from the ones done via the shaker system too So the Shaker arrived just over a week ago and we got it up and running fairly smoothly and then I could smell burning, the machine was smoking coming from internal and then some sparking/fizzing happened a pop and it powered down, my husband opened it up to look instead from the side panel and can't outwardly see what going on, he changed the fuse to get it going again and to see if he could see the issue and the same thing happened again with no idea where from and now it won't turn on at all

tempreture at 150 on the heat press hits 145 and at 200 it hits around 175 the bottom plate stays consistent around 80°c I have attached a picture of the marks on a finished piece i just can't nail down why I've slowed the curing process down slightly but it has cured to the point that the whole design is shiny and rubber to feel

I haven't as the shaker is a dudd after a week of use it needs repairing so using my heat press, my heat press is a freesub 16 x 20 I've attached a photo of my printer, the black part at the front is set to 55°C after 60ish seconds i powder then place on the hot press in the centre and set it to 2 mins if its too low powder just doesn't set at all stays bitty, I've got my temp gun out now so I'll do some tests We our working from our home and the room maintains a decent temp throughout the day except when all the equipment is on then it warms a degree or two so we open a window to balance this out

Thank you for replying i truly appreciate your help the plate at the end of the print out warms to 50°c and the curing temp on my shaker oven combo is 150° this has a 4 minute pass through, the heat press we have found anything lower then 200°C won't cure and it sits there for 2 minutes comes out set and shiny

we have a heat plate that heats the print as it comes out the printer and we wait atleast 60 seconds between print/powder at this point we cure it. What should I be doing if not this way? When we use the shaker it takes around 6 minutes from print to completely cure I have ordered a humidity monitor but we are in the UK and ita not even a little humid here, regardless what should this be at?

how dry should the ink be? we print and it rests on a hot plate which is attached to the printer

we have a heat plate that heats the print as it comes out the printer and we wait atleast 60 seconds between print/powder at this point we cure it. What should I be doing if not this way? When we use the shaker it takes around 6 minutes from print to completely cure I have ordered a humidity monitor but we are in the UK and ita not even a little humid here, regardless what should this be at?

OK so I'm newish to the DTF print world in terms of doing it myself previously we where paying for a company to do this and had noticed we occasionally got this issue with them also. we where using a shaker/oven attached to our printer and we have moved to using our heat press to cure while the shaker is getting tweaked, with both methods we find post press onto garment there is an oily residue almost looks like water marks on the print and when this is rubbed/washed fading occurs. From the outlook it seems the transfers are cured correctly they are rubbery to the touch but I have looked at every avenue and come up short so really hoping someone can help me with why this maybe happening