Printer won’t print on DTF film sheets

[theheatherherman]

Hi! I’m very new to sublimation & DTF printing. I have an Epson ET 2850 & I cannot get any of the film sheets I’ve ordered to print in my printer. I’ve tried several things like- putting white sun paper between the film sheets, putting white vinyl across the bottom of the film & on the corner trying to convince my printer to pick up the film. The irony of all of this is my friend has the exact same printer & her printer prints DTF sheets with no issue. Does anyone know how to fix this? 

[redna379]

Hi,

Something sounds wrong. An Epson ET 2850... for DTF?
Aside from the issue of not being able to load PET sheets, ET 2850 looks like a normal ecotank printer with 4 colors.
Could work for sublimation, but it simply cannot be used for DTF if it misses the ability to add white ink somewhere.

[johnson4]

6 hours ago, redna379 said:

Hi,

Something sounds wrong. An Epson ET 2850... for DTF?
Aside from the issue of not being able to load PET sheets, ET 2850 looks like a normal ecotank printer with 4 colors.
Could work for sublimation, but it simply cannot be used for DTF if it misses the ability to add white ink somewhere.

I agree with this entirely-

 but it is possible to do cmyk only DTF. Black ( composite) only ink works well without white ink. Some people use CMYK only on white shirts- but I don’t recommend it. 

Edited November 17, 2022 by johnson4