r/SublimationPrinting

F170 and CorelDraw for Sublimation

F170 and CorelDraw for Sublimation

F170 and CorelDraw for Sublimation

Tonight I set up my F170.

Prior id been running a Sawgrass SG500 but I'm currently so pissed at sawgrass over their firmware update that bricks your printer if your ink is expired. 9/10 when I get sawgrass ink the exp is only 6 months and I really don't go through that much. I'm not wasting $400 twice a year cause they are jerks. I've had it over 2 years so it's not even like warranty was an issue.

Anyway. When you get a sawgrass they literally give you step by step instructions for printing via CorelDraw. I can't find this info literally anywhere. I checked epson, YouTube, Corel Reddit, sublimation Reddit, google for days. No luck. I found a video on print preferences for adobe illustrator that "also works for Corel" but somewhere a setting isn't right. When I did my print my purples are too red and my teals are dark blue. Idk if it's somewhere in my Corel settings from when I set up the sawgrass or if I'm missing something in print settings.

Printing in perceptual, solid substrate, turned off color correction.

Bottom row - sawgrass
Top row - F170

u/scamino — 9 days ago
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Can't fix banding

My mother has a small business where she uses designs to prints things for people on stuff like t-shirts and certain clothes, mugs and tumblers also. Now I usually help her with the technical aspect of this.

So her printer, the Epson EcoTank L121 has been giving problems the past while that doesn't resolve. One main problem: Banding. Especially horizontal banding. She converted the printer into a sublimation printer by using sublimation ink. Worked while it did perfectly. Now she can't put designs on cosmetics with striped lines or a color missing.

I've tried head cleanings, head realignment, ink flushing, purge sheets, I emptied the waste ink tank/pads. One thing I should do is to reset the waste ink tank counter thingy.

Can someone please help me (and my mother) to get this printer working again? Or suggest other alternatives.

So basically: The black ink keeps printing horizontal bands. I've tried most solutions. Rest of the colors (CMY) work fine.

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u/RealisticWillow989 — 11 days ago