Hangry Muscle

On 11/9/2021 at 6:07 AM, johnson4 said:

Yea, I was going to import the p900 from EU, to use chip resetter. Just waiting on a rip too. I don’t really care for the p700, if it’s anything like the p600. 

What's wrong with the p700? 

On 12/6/2021 at 8:45 AM, anum11 said:

If ciss is placed high or even if it is sometimes full, inks May leak onto cap station and from there to waste ink tanks. If you have this problem it may also go back into printhead and mix there a bit. But if this is the case, after you print a few mixed ink should go out and you should get correct colors again.

If not maybe your wiper blade is too dirty or your printhead channels may ve leaking inside to eachother. If this is the case when leakage grows some inks start to wont fire and inks may mix and go back way inside of ciss also you will start to see some channel nozzles fade away. However This may usually seen on chinese refurbished printhead or manually cleaned printheads or if you suck ink from capping station hoses with syringe too often.

 

I was asking about the wetcap but I figured it. I'm only using the CISS for two of my colors. 

10 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Do you wet cap? Too much ink there will cause the ink in the dampers to mix. 
 

I didn’t have those issues in the 15000, I used roll printing and swapped pre filled carts out. Each persons usage scenario though will bring out different problems though. 

Not sure how to so I haven't. I think i might be having that issue with the inks mixing right now using the ciss. 

Can you explain? I have a  wet cap solution 

Yeah I think most of mine probably could of been avoided haha. 

On 11/26/2021 at 7:15 AM, johnson4 said:

So it’s probably 90 nozzles X 6, like the l1800 and 1430. 
 

you could easily modify that ink system and run that printer with an external tank, or an automatic mixer, or simply using a syringe and recycling the ink manually which would only take a few minutes every day. The cmyk never settles, at least it hasn’t in months on my end. So doing the white only would save time. I know the eco tanks are built much cheaper, so my concern now would be the quality of the wiper/ capping station. 
 

What were the issues you had with the 15000? I designed some resin cartridge adapters and laser cut some silicone for it. I haven’t tested it yet, but it makes the 15000 have the “nipple” for regular dampers with no chance of leaking. In my eyes I’m still stuck on it being a great candidate, at least for a throw away printer. If it was $350 every 6-12 months, it would be one of the easiest and cheapest running machines, especially if you just slap in a damper and it’s golden. 

Yeah. Im testing out a CISS on right now. Still working out the kinks. 

Et8550 CISS preview

I've had no issues with White, Cyan and Black were starting to have a couple missing spots in the Nozzle Check so I put cleaning solution into the ink tanks, shook it a little bit and that cleared them out pretty good. Had trouble getting the solution out the Black cart so I took out the carts. Then I was able to pour the solution out of Black. No issues removing the cleaning solution from the other colors.

This printer is a tank, Its lasted way longer than any of Xp-15000s. I'm sure the quality of the wiper blade and wetcap. 

 My first and second Xp-15000 the CISS flooded the wetcap station both had fatal codes. 

The 3rd Xp-15000 broke during the maintenance process. I didn't use a CISS with this one.

The 4th had clog in the Magenta that I could not fix. I ended up with an error code trying to clear it. 

Most of those problems were probably caused my human error. They can probably be avoided if you know what you're doing. Silicone around the wetcap station is a fantastic idea. Someone else mentioned they did the same thing.

I also had issues with the Xp-15000 reading certain films and especially if I was using Acrorip. I fixed this by putting a white piece of paper in front of the film sheet.

The Xp-15000 is probably better for DTF but personally I would still choose the Et-8550. 

Low maintenance ( I did pretty much zero maintenance in the first month and no issues with white separating. )

Refilling ink is fast.

The printer has two auto clean functions, regular and powerful printhead cleans. 

It has a setting for manually setting your ink levels.

Also its chipless so no having install or buy extra software.

It has the option to install a roller feeder. There's a setting in the printer preferences.

Speed is okay, like 10 mins to print a 13x19 sheet.

My issue with this printer was the sensor not reading certain film sheets. I did the paper trick with this works everytime. 

The other was Photoblack channel was printing a yellowish color ( I haven't figured out how to fix this yet.)

So far it's been great. 

XP-15000 I think is faster. Here's a video of a full print. Its like 12 mins to print.

DTF Et-8550 A3+ Film  Full Printout

11 hours ago, johnson4 said:

How do you mix and prevent the white ink from settling? 

I haven't had to do anything specific, I do have the printer on a foldable table and I just rock the printer back and forth on it. 

6 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Seems alright, keep at it you’ll figure it out.
 

I’ll just assume pull /shake/ refill daily on the white.

One advice, i would be careful sucking air back through the printhead like that when you were emptying the damper.

personally I have a hard time justifying print time and printer cost, but there really aren’t a ton of options-right now. 

I print off and on, so far no issues with white, I did start shaking the inks in printer. And yeah someone else mentioned air too, next time I'll skip that and just clear the tanks. The printer has been fantastic compared to the Xp15000s I use.

Its been over a month since using the Epson Eco tank ET-8550 for DTF (direct to film) printing and so far everything has been great. This is the first cleaning I have done since buying the printer. Usually I just do the printhead clean function. Today I did the full on maintenance.

Epson Ecotank ET-8550 Maintenance Video

ET-8550 DTF Printing and Curing

Its been about a month everything is still running smooth on my DTF (direct to film) converted Epson ET-8550. I've had to do very little maintenance, just refilling and a couple cleanings.

@johnson4 I did and it prints correctly for the most part on regular paper and for nozzle checks. It might be the film, I got it printing though.  As the printer begins printing and then pulls the film into the printer. I put a plain piece of white paper in front of the film sheet, then the printer pulls the sheet and paper in further and thats when I pull the white paper back out. This has been the only way to get it to print.

Here's a video of me doing the trick.

Epson Et8550 Paper Trick

I am using Acrorip version 10.4 with the Epson Ecotank Et-8550 and my prints are coming out cut off. Its only printing a portion of the image down the middle of the sheet. I'm also using 13x19 Paper. I included images of the Acrorip settings, printer and the printout sheets.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hey i converted it and it works great.  i put the video on my youtube.