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19 minutes ago, johnson4 said:

I use the same settings as I do with CMYK only, just with white. I don't use the P600 so my settings wouldn't work for one unfortunately. 

Thank you anyway. Also I will try to update tomorrow if cleaning the nozzles improves my situation.

48 minutes ago, johnson4 said:

If your printer is chipless, Just power off the printer, power it on, open/close the ink bay ( or whatever you have set up for that). Once it " recognizes" the cartridges and goes back to the main screen, then load the program and do an ink charge. If it's not chipless, Its a Pain, because they don't reset until they read empty, and if they(even one) are low the printer won't do an ink charge. 

 

To me that is what it sounds like though, I hope it helps some. 

 

It's not a problem at all, If it helps then that's great, It will be one less pain to deal with during the process of learning. If not, I'm all ears too

That makes sense thank you.

While I have you here could you mind giving an example of what settings you would use in EK print to print all white lettering? I want to rule out I am doing anything silly there as well.

55 minutes ago, johnson4 said:

Sounds like you loaded the ink, and didn't use it for a few days and the ink settled. The white ink is made white with Ti02( Titanium dioxide), which is a heavy "pigment", so the ink must be shaken to maintain suspension over time. If not, the pigment settles to the bottom, leaving the carrier ( thin, watery) to pass through without the full amount of heavy pigment, making for a thin, watery print. This is also why you need to shake the white ink cartridges daily.

 

Problem is, if you do that often, enough of that settled "pigment' turns into a sludge and will clog the printhead/dampers etc. Using a P600, I recommend using it daily. A head clean doesn't do much in terms of moving the ink from the lines, since the ink lines hold quite a bit of ink. The best thing to do is just print several things a day. Either that, or use the P600 adjustment program and do an Ink charge before you print if it sits for a few days.

 

IF that isn't the case, I'm not sure, other than clogged nozzles, unless it never worked correctly then it could be your settings. Generally " thin" and " watery" means separated ink.  Anytime you have an issue, always do a nozzle check. running a head with clogged nozzles can damage the Piezo nozzle, since the ink cools it down as it passes through the nozzle, If it's clogged, it can overheat that nozzle and permanently damage that nozzle.

Thank you for the thorough response! You are a huge wealth of knowledge on this board and I greatly appreciate how willing you are to help! I am going to try cleaning the nozzles and see if that helps. I have yet to get a print charge to complete with the utility, every time I have ever tried it immediately errors out saying it has trouble reading certain cart chips.

I have an Epson P600 that I converted to DTF with supplies purchased from Andy. Things seemed to be working great, however I seem to be having issues printing white at this time. I am working through some troubleshooting steps and wondered if this is normal behavior. I felt like the level of white seemed to be thinner than normal so I turned of white underbase in EKPrint and noticed it is not printing ANY of the white in the image when I do this. When I turn on white underbase it prints white just fine but like I said it seems to be thinner than expected. The opacity when pressed on a shirt would be about 75% which is what my underbase is set to.

Does this sound like normal behavior or would this point to a potential issue? I remember seeing somewhere in the forum one of the most active users was having great white only prints and I am hoping I can get this sorted out and get to those level prints with white on a dark garment.