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12 hours ago, gforeman44 said:

has anyone had this problem where the white start to print but then stops

Your nozzles clogged. Also you can't use all of paper size. You should not use where it completely stops printing 

Dtg inks are generally more liquid. So color pass is not fully drying and mixing with whites. So you can use better film and less dtg ink to get results. But DTF inks will be better than your results any time. Also commont DTG inks' colors quickly fades when washed. So it is not advisible. But i dont know how are Epson inks for f2100

What you set white DOT size does not matter except if you go larger, you get more white ink. So it is only good for if %200 white is not enough for you.

For color DOT size if you go small or medium instead of mix, you get less ink however you can go up to %200 for ink limit and that May be enpugh on CMYK. What advantage comes from this, if you go smaller DOT size on CMYK you cab print more details.

Just use catridge cover button then off the printer. Wet the cap then turn on and off the printer.

You have problem in your yellow channel. ınk flow is bad. You should check why thou it could be anything.

You cannot feed your paper inside of your printer at correct time so it spits out. Try to put more paper to support your A3 sheet and clean the sheet roller. Make sure your paper stays good and firm on sheet tray. 

if the old printer is something like 4880, when you put 7880 in it May still work with same snyc. Because they are similar and they use a lot of similar parts. if it is completely diffirent then you need to access code of your flatbed system to make y Axis step adjustments.

You need to snyc your platen system with normal paper movement. That is the way to go. You dont need X Axis movement, just snyc the y Axis to original movement and you are done.

You wet your printhead and/or printhead cables and you plugged your printer as wet. Possibly you need both new mainboard and printhead. Basicly a New printer.

4 hours ago, johnson4 said:

1- I’m not sure I understand, are you talking about nesting? I do the same with my p400.  I print one design, load and print another design, etc. instead of loading individual sheets, it prints continuously on the roll, with whatever gap I want in between.  If you wanted to print a huge long design, that would probably be limited to 44” a print. 
 

2. I did not, this was unplugged from the sub board to try and get it to not detect film, so I could do a head clean while printing. While that worked to clean the head, it needed to “ load” again, spitting out the film. If I triggered it just right, it would work. However, let’s just say, you can’t do a head clean while it’s roll printing. 
 

3. without this PE/PW sensor, it never sees that the film has loaded, so it must stay plugged in. 
 

4. If printing and you run the carts completely out, it will tell you to change the carts. When you press “ ok” it spits the film out. grab it at the back so it doesn’t feed.  
 

it’s not wasted, just cut the film, pull it through the back, do your thing. Once done, reload the film, and after the first print pause it. Reattach to the previously cut/printed piece, problem solved. 

 However, it’s extremely easy to not do this. I leave the “ink remaining” page on the printer pulled up. When I print, I pause every 20 prints and look at it, or about once every 40 minutes for me.
 

however,  Recently, I’ve accidentally done something that makes the ink just read full(ish), after 25 prints, it reads 95% full. No idea what I did, trying to figure it out still. 
 

overall, on a unmodified ( physically) xp 15000 printer, you can load the roll, and send print after print until you are done, all on one continuous roll, back to back. I choose to keep them half inch apart. 

Check your ink levels once every half hour, or whatever you find works for you and your size/type of designs. takes 10 seconds to reset, and maybe a minute to refill the ink, when needed.  This will not interfere with the continuous printing. 
 

when done, pull the film out a bit, cut it, and be done. No special modifications, no special software, on a stock ( I mean, Chipless) xp 15000 Epson printer. 
 

is it perfect? No, but it’s a $200-$350 printer that is current gen and widely available. Can be used for sheet or roll, at 13” wide. 

 

the only difference from the p400:

 I can load the film before printing

I can do a head clean while roll printing

 the carts always read full.

Other than that, no difference, same applies for the p600 and P800, except you have to deal with settled ink on those.
 

you could easily attach a ciss ( which, as I mentioned I have a plan to use one with it, without the need of keeping the ink level with an easy circ system) and simply reset the carts every half hour while roll printing and have a 13” roll printing DTF machine. That is, unless they come out with the firmware that literally always read full, then cut the ink reset. 
 

if they do, then the only difference is being able to do a head clean while roll printing. 
 

let me put it to you this way, I have 15 Epson printers here. All are the 15000, p400/p600/p800. 
 

I chose the p400 and the 15000 for a reason. Now that I have the xp 15000 doing what I want, it could easily replace the p400 on my auto shake/cure cart with my current knowledge on it anyway. So much so, I’d almost feel comfortable selling my p400 stock, knowing they are not replaceable. 

When something fails, I toss it and buy a new one at their current low price, instead of spending $1,000 on one printhead.
 

 with what I have test printed in the 15000, would have more than double paid for itself already if I sold the printed designs. I have no idea how long it’ll last before it fails, but we’ll see when and what. 
 

the main purpose for me, was to secure the future of what I’m doing. P400’s don’t exist anymore, and I’m not using a p800 unless it’s a last resort, which I really don’t want to do.
 

If I can’t “ roll print” and use my auto cure/shaker/roll up machine, I’m out of business. I’m definitely not ever going to try and make any money off of sheet printing, it’s not worth it to me. 
 

oh, and you CAN pull the WiFi card on the xp 15000 and it still work fine, just tells you it’s missing when you turn it on. Easier though, just disable the WiFi in the menu and don’t do stupid things like me  

I share same toughs as you that is why i asked so much about this Xp 15000. It is not selling in my country so i have to order it from other countrys that is why i am trying to understand process.

Just 1 thing i could not understand. I am post about how you can continue printing after you click catridge buttons.

I do understand you just have to reset counters before catridges read empty, but does it contunies printing without spitting the roll if you do that, do you need to do something manually to keep the film in i did not understand this part.

Also how do you adjust gap between 2 prints isnt it standard, i mean is there something on Epson driver for this?

2 hours ago, johnson4 said:

So, an update:

 

The Xp-15000 has quite a bit of quirks, mainly stemming from Epson and the aftermarket chipless solutions. However, it's easily ignored, but can give "false" issues, like paper jams, printing blank pages, etc. 

 

Simple enough to avoid, and to fix. 

Other than that, I have just printed heavy ( like 200% density) large black boxes over and over again until the ink was low in roll mode, and was able to easily ( about 10 seconds in total) reset the ink levels with no ill effects while roll printing, with literally no effort or modifications to the printer. 

 

So, my initial issue when roll printing last night has been resolved, and that was resetting the ink levels without kicking out the roll of film.  I was able to successfully, and easily, refill the cartridges while roll printing also, which, again, depending on the design ( I was doing a CMYK 12x10 design) and figure it would have done 30 prints before I felt uncomfortable enough to refill it. Printing CMYK+W might lower that yeild, since the white only has two cartridges, depending on your ink settlings. Still, not a big deal to take a syringe and squirt 10ML of ink in it real quick.

 

However, I still haven't been able to successfully do a head clean while roll printing. The PW sensor is also the PE sensor on this machine ( one of them). Now, I have found which FFC cable it is, and it's pretty simple, just like the previous printers PE sensors. You can unplug the sensor entirely, and then it will do a head clean, as if no paper is there. However, you cannot continue to roll print, because the PE load timing still needs to be seen after a head clean, which is nearly impossible to replicate by hand. 

I don't intend on adding anything to the printer, or heavily modifying it in any way. 

 

Basic answer though, I found a way to roll print with the XP-15000, Minus the ability to do a head clean WHILE roll printing. The ink issue was the major pitfall( ink counter running out while the film is still loaded), which is easily bypassed now. IF I need to do a head clean while printing ( with the p400, not once, so i doubt it'll happen often here) I will just cut the film and reattach it after the clean is done- simple enough and might happen once or twice for 50-100 prints in theory.

I'll give it another test tonight, roll printing " take 2" to see how it works now. 

 

So you removed sensor's cable, i have a few questions that are not Clear enough.

1- Can you accually roll print or it is printing like printing on multiple sheets(with a bit space between each sheet)

2- You removed cable of sensor under printhead right?

3- if so do you ever need to plug it back?

4- when you are out of ink(not Real but as counters), you can change catridges and it does not spit out rest of roll paper. But what if catridges become empty on mid print, does it contunies the printing or that sheet becomes waste and it starts over?

Thank you for these informations btw 

6 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Has an optical PE sensor without a lever, right at the back of the machine for the Rear feeder anyway. 

In theory we can cut the cables of pe sensor, put a rocket switch between it and mainboard, so when catridges seems empty we can turn it off to make it see like no paper, and open connection after it is ready to get paper again. Do you think something like this works?

But how your carts becomes full again do you take catridges off and put them in again?

Also i found out that you can print 44 inch lenght as 1 page have you tried it?

6 hours ago, johnson4 said:

So, while the XP-15000 can technically roll print, since it’s not “ native” it spits the film out when you replace the ink carts. 

for example, in the p400, they always read full. 

with this printer, they read full and count down normally ( without chips). So every 20-25 prints or whatever uses up one cartridge, it will spit the roll of film out for you to change the “ cartridge”. 
 

as for everyone’s “ paper jam” issue and loading issues, that’s Epson, easily avoided. It’s not actually a paper jam, at least in my case. 
 

so, at current, if you roll print less than 20 prints, it’ll work. Sheet printing, it’ll work if you do a couple things to prevent Epson from tagging the firmware, for one disable the Epson monitor, two don’t connect the printer to WiFi. 
 

so until ( if) a Chipless becomes available that makes it read full the entire time, it’s not going to work with the roll. If that was resolved with the ink counters, it would work perfectly fine for the roll. 
 

 

obviously, I don’t take that as an answer, so I’ll keep tinkering with it to see if I can find anything else that might work. Worst case scenario, I smash it into bits in my driveway after “ over tinkering”   

So chipless does not read full all the time. How does it reset counters when they are empty?

Also what is Total amount of lenght you printed at one go? And does it skips some area between pages if yes how much?

6 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Over the weekend, I'll make a roll adapter for it and see how far I can go with roll feeding it, see if it stops working at some point.

I also might have found a way to add a ciss system, without the ink tanks needing to be level and worrying about the issues associated with that. Which would help with roll feeding it and not worrying about the inks. I'll deal with the settling issue in the ciss later, I don't plan on letting it sit, just to test it.  

The sheet mode is finicky, like some other printers with certain films, but I'm making a 3D printed part that from testing should work just fine if doing a bunch of sheets without a loading issue. 

I've also got the waste tank resetter on the way, to see if that works. 

 

And, If all that works, I'll be replacing the P400 with this temporarily on my DIY cart machine thing to stress test it with about 100 continuous full size prints in roll printing form. I want to see how far this "disposable" printer will go. 

 

so, this supports uncut roll printing? i mean does it gives out whole roll after print is done, or is it stays in and you can send another print?

Dupont dtg works with some of the DTF films.

On 3/21/2021 at 1:06 AM, Chix22 said:

Have anyone experience with replacing printhead in these models. All printhead of these model are DX5 and same structure and mechanism, but I not sure how Epson locked it?
I asked my friend from Vietnam, they confirm that P400 can use R1900, R2000, R2880 printhead. is that true for printer in US?

P400 is not standard dx5 printhead.

R2000 is standart dx5 printhead, not sure about other 2.

14 hours ago, rrincon said:

Hello friends, I have this design ready to place the roll of paper.

 

I think designing Hardware is not the problem, but software or driver is the Real problem here. 

On 3/12/2021 at 12:30 AM, Joel Towers said:

 

Do you provide this?

6 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Weird, maybe it’s for “advertising”

I think they just modified cracked Acrorip 9 and selling it as 10.

As far as i know Acrorip is Korean. 

17 hours ago, Julija Rubasenko said:

If you open acrorip com, supported printers, it says that they support p700 and p900 already

If you ask them they say, it is not supported yet, website is mistaken.

Acrorip 10 is not supporting p700 not p900. There are chip resetters avaliable, possibly refillable catridges in 2 months. However Acrorip 10 is not from real owners of Acrorip i think

Are you sure that you selected printer from acrorip?

On 06.02.2021 at 3:11 AM, elliotiscool said:

So cleaning the printhead and letting it sit overnight seemed to have fixed that problem but now I am experiencing something very odd. When I send a print job it does the job but nothing is being printed. The printhead moves over the film like it is printing but no ink is ejecting from it. Ran a printhead cleaning and a nozzle check. The nozzle check wasn't perfect but looked quite normal to me. All colors including white were showing properly on the nozzle check. But when I print a design it doesn't eject any ink. What would cause this?

That seems like your mainboard and printhead is fried. You most likely started printer when electronics of printhead is wet.

1 hour ago, johnson4 said:

This is the only thing I’ve seen about it, however, I haven’t really looked into it. 
 

https://dtgpro.com/cicproduct/dtf-pro-rollprint6.php

It works in conjunction with your rip software

This seems like another software that name changed. I think There are original program at cheaper price.