Mdrake2016

I have read the same in other forums from experienced printers, but I can never figure out what is an actual good cleaner to get? Can you please recommend a few good ones that can get these clogs under control? I'm pretty sure I know what caused this but now I need to figure out how to get it cleared.

What do you think about trying the windex? Or can you tell me which cleaner you use?

I use the Firebird "GTX Optimized Cleaning Solution" but yesterday I ordered some Capping Station fluid and Printhead Cleaning solution from DTFSuperstore since they're finally back in stock. Looking at the label, it says "GTX is a registered trademark of Brother International Corporation", but I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. This is what they sent when I ordered their regular solution. This clog actually happened after 4 days of being away, with cleaning carts inside of them. I purged the inks before I left. Once I came back, this problem was there and I can't clear it. I wet cap every night. I feel like my issue may have been the capping station bubbling that I posted about in the other thread. Maybe ink dried up below the printhead. I saw videos of people using Windex to clear clogs. I've read that this shouldn't be done but people seem to have success as long as they don't leave it there for too long. What do you think? Or is that cleaner you use the only solution?

I have 1 broken line on my Magenta for the P400 that refuses to clear up. The prints still look fine and accurate but I got a feeling it will hurt the printer in the long run. What can I do to get this cleared up? I ran a bunch of head cleans since this began and even a few ink purges but nothing worked.

Thanks. I connected it straight into a little pastry container right next to the printer lol and that stopped the problem from happening.

Personally, I got WAY better colors using CADlink. I have no idea where there's such a huge difference but they literally look spot on to what I want the colors to look. My blues on EKPrint always looked purple. For a design that had a strong royal blue, I had to use a light navy for it to come out looking even close to the royal blue that I needed.

Thanks a lot. It's been extremely frustrating. Can you tell me what size straight connectors you use? I'm worried if I get the same size as the y connector that I used, it will clog up too.

I would assume this isn't safe for the printhead so I have to ask if anyone has encountered this or know why this could be happening? This is on a P400 and it happens right at the very end of the headclean. IMG_9997.MOV

I actually found this problem to be either of the following: 1. Missing nozzles on the white causing the white to not be as opaque. 2. Ink percentage on the White to be too low. On my XP-15000, running at 1440x1440, any lower than 70% and the color of the shirt showed. I tested on 50/50 blends and I never had a dye migration issue if I used the correct settings. Besides that, I’ve even pressed as low as 275 degrees which fights dye migration. Wash test did not affect the print at all.

I got chipless software from inkchip.net. But I think mine was somehow already chipless because the nozzle check showed the chipless firmware number when I ran it. Here's how to do it:

If anybody is wondering, I think you have to use either YMCK-WWWW or WWWW-YMCK when using EKPrint. I got it working fine using YMCK first. Seems to need much less ink percentage with this P400 vs the XP-15000

I am going to use EKPrint by the way.

Hey Johnson....I'm setting up the P400 now and before I actually fill it with inks, I wanted to ask if it makes a difference how the inks are set up. Should I use CMYK in their original slots (K in the MK slot?) and white in the other 4 channels? Or should I only be using 2 channels for white (unsure if the Gloss Optimizer channel can be used with regular ink).

Actually it was R3000s. I honestly can’t remember exactly what he was asking for but I think it was around $1,000 each.

I picked up the P400 earlier today and the guy was really pushing on me picking up the P600 (maybe because he had about 10 of them lol). Sounds like you prefer the P400 or 800 for DTF. Would you say they’re just generally more user friendly than the 600?

I am actually thinking of going with that Chinese printer if things go well in the future (the same as the Kingdom DTF correct?) I actually just found some local guy selling a new in the box refurbished p400 for $800. Would you say that it’s a good idea to start off with this before jumping onto the p800? The most I believe I’ll be printing anytime soon is 50 a day.

I think I give up on the XP-15000. I have a new one I haven’t opened but I think I might just keep it as a backup. I’ve been looking into one of the stylus pro printers but cant decide which one to go with. Is there one you recommend? I like the idea of having the large carts on the 800 but I don’t know if that’s really a good thing with DTF, especially since the design is sort of like using a CISS system. Business is slow at the moment so I’ll probably have 10-15 A3 prints a day for now but I expect that to increase in a few months. I appreciate all your help as usual.

Alright guys....printhead dead. The screen is flashing all crazy and after it being 100% clean, this is how it looks after running a couple head cleans. I'm really not sure what I could have done differently. I was as careful as I possibly could be with this printer. Cleaned it every day, used cleaning carts when I was away for a few days, made sure there were no ink spills.

Yea it’s not looking like an ink issue. It happened the same way with the new inks as well. Can you tell me about the xp600 adapter? What is the purpose of that. I tried looking it up but can’t find much info. Is it so that I can use xp600 cartridges in the xp15000? I thought they’re pretty much the same foam design so I’m wondering how this would help.

I had a bottle of white ink from a different supplier. It seemed to look much better while printing and didn't see any clogs. After 4 prints I ran a nozzle check and saw 3 broken lines. So then I ran a head clean and after testing the nozzle check again, the whole Gray channel became clog. WTF is going on here? How does a head clean make the clog worse?

That would make sense since only the white has clogged. Not 1 clog on the other colors. I want to look into that adaptor thing. I'm not experienced in printing hardware so I've never even heard of that,

It looks like cleaning the nipple area fixed the problem again. Just not understanding why it keeps drying up there.

Well I spoke too soon. After 12 prints, clog again. I'm completely stumped why it keeps happening and it's the Gray cart everytime. I do clean that area every time I swap carts (which I rarely do...I use the same cart and refill it in while it's in the printer). I'm not sure what screen you're referring to?

This morning, I tried 3 different brand new cartridges to test my theory of the foam drying up but it didn't make a difference. Still got clogs every few prints. Eventually, I decided to use come cleaning solution with a swab and cleaned the nipple (or whatever you call it for the XP-15000 that the cartridge snaps into). I'm 10 prints in now and no clog. It looks like somehow, that area may be drying up which is weird because I print every day and when I'm gone, I have cleaning carts in there. If that is in fact the issue (we'll see how the rest of the day goes), then that is luckily an easy extra step I can do every day. I'm curious though...could printing at 1440x720 be causing this issue? I have been printing with that resolution lately but today I've only printed with 1440x1440.

Aliexpress. No I don't remove them from the orange base with both plugs removed. I'm just describing how I refilled it to check if the ink flowed properly to the sponge side. While it was on the orange base, I refilled it and the ink would not move to the sponge side. It seems like ink is drying up inside the cartridge, preventing the flow from the reservoir side to the sponge side. I just don't know how to fix this without buying new cartridges every few weeks.