Solarious

if you watch the software configuration portion of this video it applies to connection to the printer regardless of what software you use to send jobs to the printer all you need is Ethernet cable and atools if anyone need a copy of atools I have the one provided with my okai printer not to sure if it will be an issue to use it for other manufacturers dual head printers but it’s worth a try if you don’t have atools at all

If anyone needs to contact me directly about help with there printers please contact me at my email solariousdtf@gmail.com for quicker response times!

Most likely it’s the color profile associated with the software I had this issue till I switched my printer to CADlink Out of the box the colors where way more accurate to the original design

I believe you can download an atool’s software I found one when I initially configured the software with my printer, I also reached out to the manufacturer and they provided one to me. The up address is usually found once your properly configure your network devices to communicate with the printer, I want to say if you watch the knight configuration videos on YouTube and you have a copy of a tools you will be able to connect with your printer your printer will not have a usb port it will have a Ethernet port that you will have to connect to your computers Ethernet port

I used the knight12 printer driver

Off topic question do you know how to change the car position in atools so that alignment tests actually print on the film? I keep having issues now that I aligned my car position to CADLinks a center

Ah I felt the same way when purchasing, there should be easy to configure packages where you can bundle everything together that you need and just pay a single cost for everything with a slight discount for the bundled items. Very interesting that it took a while for Cadlink to get back to you, I wonder if it’s a matter of where your at and the service team that your dealing with. I reached out and had a response to add my driver to the version I purchased and they resolved it in a day turnaround! Thank you for your input on this thread because it’s helping me better understand each option for these printers and steps I need to take to operate my printing business with as little of issues as possible! I wonder if there’s a way to program a automation to clear the jobs within the file system of windows, I know I have automated processes previously with other softwares and some cool apps that let you script commands, but that should be a user recommendation to the developers to create a job cache that auto deletes the folder after a certain amount of memory usage. Not a hard thing to implement I believe.

How do you like I color studio? And do you own CADLink also?

Hmm I will have to look into the additional add on I thought they were just compatible with certain sensors already but I haven’t gotten my sensor yet so I wouldn’t really know

Maximum color tuning capabilities of Maintop for this neon blue project, with issues from no choke options on the white overlay

CADLink unedited with stock color profile and no choke cleaner all around with the white overlay and color accuracy, and I still have the option to tune all my color, unlike Maintop where I have to do a lot of calculations to get color somewhat accurate

Photo example of edited color profile printed and pressed for a client who wanted kinda neon blue

If color is your issue and you already own CADLink I would highly recommend getting a color sensor to be able to make icc profiles and color match more accurately

Yes I just actually purchased CADlink and have seen a huge difference In printing quality, due to advanced color options, a pretty good default curve and printer support for my dual xp-600 Okai Chinese printer. I had been previously working in Maintop and ran into many color issues that really upset some of my customers even after tuning. So far out of the box after configuring the printers driver with CADlink, the accuracy of color representation has been so much closer to what is designed in PS and AI, I am working on getting a compatible color sensor to start making ICC profiles to improve on the accuracy even further especially when changing supplies and sources. The only thing you would need to check for is the dual head board and confirm it’s the same board that the guy from kingdomdtf has in the knight 12, when I watched his videos he explains that lots of these Chinese printers have compatible components your just have to check before buying one if it’s board type is listed. If your printer matches up to similar components (dual xp-600 head & the correct board) the CADlink software connects directly to your printer using the Knight 12 driver. To test if your machine is compatible download the kindgomdtf CADlink direct to film edition trial and see if the kingdom dtf driver and the atools ICP will connect and run a test print through the CADlink trial software. this helped me so much to get going along with some atools alignment videos to get my heads aligned properly

So I have spent a lot of time and money into these printers already and think I have a pretty firm understanding of using Maintop & Atools alignment software now if anyone has any questions I am here to help! Also I will be logging my experience with these printers here.