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That's kinda what I figured, but then when I lower the white ink the final print is more transparent, less ability to block the shirt color coming through on the white sections. As far as curing, I have always cured the same way 350° at 2.5-3 min. even with EKprint, and have never had this issue before. Do you use EKprint or acrorip? I'm getting the feeling acrorip wasn'tade for small 2 channel white printers, maybe they threw it in on the last revision to include us who use it, but it seems like it's just not optimized for it.

Have any recent updates fixed the greens on EKprint? This post was referring to acrorip colors being ever so slightly off, but definitely liveable, but honestly after tons of testing yesterday, I still prefer the finished quality of EKprint over acrorip 10.5, but I can't get over how bad the greens are on EKprint.

Anyone with success, care to share their certified settings for this combo. While I love the user interface and the color reproduction of acrorip over EKprint, I spent a full day yesterday, burning through ink and film searching for the perfect settings using custom ink settings, and all ink settings, 720 vs 1440, mix vs med vs med+lrg drops, and mostly I got thin prints that couldn't fully cover up the color of the t shirt (white base prints), and when I finally got thick white base that should have been capable using 30-40% color/80% white, after cure the print was FULL of pin holes and the print became almost completely see through when held up to the light, I never experienced this with EKprint, and nothing has changed except the software, same printer, ink, powder, film, etc. And just to make sure I then used the same image into ekprint just to make sure I didn't screw something up, and it came out perfect just like I'm use to.

So I just cracked open a new "Super dtf powder". For the first time. Up until now I've had bottles with the black label that say medium stretch dtf powder. Anyways, I've always cures using the heat press hover method at 350° for 3 min and had perfect cures, now with this new powder using the same parameters, the adhesive "looks" wet but is noticeably tackier than the old powder, and also doesn't seem to cure as evenly, with some random spots of seemingly uncured powder that still looks grainy and semi dry. Anyone have a "what works best" for them with the hovering method and this new powder?

Does anyone have an icc profile for Andy's ink. fwiw I'm on an xp 15000 and acrorip 10.5, I'm not sure what info is relevant Even a personally made one would be helpful. Also maybe a tutorial on how to create one, I have NO idea how to even attempt that. Thanks in advance 👍

So I did do some testing last night, and as you said, the powder would not cure at anything under 350, and that's that I always heat the bottom tray with the press before laying the film on it and hovering the heat press. As far as pressing, I tried pressing at 325, and you're right about that too! The film peeled off so much easier, and the resulting image on the shirt felt softer and smoother, well done you, thanks again!

Oh and I'm curing using the heat press method not oven, if that makes a difference.

So I'm glad I found this post, I've been curious about this because I've been seeing 320° for 15 to 20 seconds, after extensive testing, I've been curing my powder at 350° for 3 minutes and pressing at 350° for 15 seconds with a second press using Teflon or parchment paper for 10 seconds, and all of my prints have come out solid. None of them peel, or crack. Longevity after multiple washes and wearing is great, but now I'm just curious if there's any benefit going down to 320?! I guess the easy way to find out would be more testing lol and going down to 320, but I also noticed that they say to cure at like 200 and something degrees I've been curing it 350 and like I said no negative effects as far as I can tell all of my final prints are solid no issues at all. I'm using Andy's ink powder and film roll.

Oh no sir not over 44" that would be one massive person! Haha, I meant an image over 19", so 24", 30" etc. But you still answered my question I think if you print 36" 👍🏽. Thanks

The Xp 15000 specs state up to 13x19 borderless, up to 44" printing, do you know if it will print a single image over 19" if not a borderless photo? I see you printed multiple images over 44" but what about a single large image? I'm thinking about the 5x and 6x shirts that are getting more and more common these days

You know what, it could be the carts, I have changed the carts a few times to fix the issue after failed attempts with nozzle cleanings. I assumed maybe the carts stopped working in those cases. So how would I go about refilling oem carts?! I didn't know that was possible. Chinese carts only hold like 17ml anyways right?

Ya that's what I'm currently waiting for, it was supposed to be out in feb, so hopefully it comes out soon. I'm using the ekprint demo meanwhile but the limitations of the demo are driving me nuts. Also unrelated to program, the magenta in my xp15000 is constantly clogging, but only the magenta, haven't had any other issues not even with white. What could be the issue? Ink related? Nozzle related? Chinese carts don't like magenta?! I'm using Andy's ink

Ya I have no problem paying for the full program, I rather not take any unnecessary risks. I have used cracked programs in the past and there is almost always quirks that come along with that. I do appr coated the heads up though.

Oh man thanks for the heads up, I think that alone makes it worth waiting for, that would definitely improve workflow.

Does anyone happen to know if you can add multiple files onto a single print in acrorip? Im currently using ekprint demo and trying to decide on a full program to buy, leaning towards acro because of this post. Also I have never actually used the "rip" button, what exactly does that do? I usually just load a file, resize, enable white, adjust settings and print

Ok thats what i ended up doing, i wasnt sure about how full it would get, thanks again!

awesome. One last question, I already have to empty the waste tank, i have a resetter, i pulled the tank out pulled the lid off, but there is material inside that is soaked in ink, how do you drain it to reuse the same tank?

I figured it out, it was the underbase choke was set to 10, lowered to 1 looks near perfect now. on to tweaking for perfection, thanks again!

I finally got it! i did have to disable the check paper setting, got it to see the paper with a strip of white vinyl on the edge, its all i have, going to go buy thin white tape tomorrow. Are there any other ways to get it to see the film that anyone knows of? Unfortunately I have to keep it on manual feed, even with the white strip it wants to pull from the paper cassette rather than the rear feeder. Also the white is missing very fine details of the color and not covering it all, what would be the setting to play with to tweak that? I have it set to 1440x1440 for both color and white

Ok I'm halfway there! I cleaned it installed newly filled carts, and it prints perfectly on paper. So now I have to try to get it to see the film, One thing is that it keeps pulling from the cassette not from the rear feeder, is that just because it doesn't see the film, or is there a setting to only allow it to pull from the rear?

Thanks for this info, sorry I've been so busy past few days, so it didnthe same thing on regular paper, so then I did a nozzle check test print and that still did print, although the magenta seemed to be clogged all of a sudden, so the last thing I did was take the ink out and run a couple of cleaning cycles with cleaner carts in. So I will just be getting back to it this afternoon with a fresh magenta cart. I will check those settings you mentioned, I do believe I saw something like that paper check setting. Thanks again, hopefully I can nail this down and get to it.

Damn editing isn't working, scratch that last comment, Is Andy's film from dtfsuperstore? If so thats where I got this roll from. The link I clicked on opendtg for film, took me to dtfsuperstore.

Actually I saw on another post that you use Andy's film, is that from dtgstore? If so they seem to be sold out, and also does he have any rolls? I only see sheets in the store. any alternatives that will work with xp 15000? Nevermind I found it in stock, search kept taking me to an out of stock film for some reason. Still would love to know where you bought the roll that you use with the xp 15000?

I had considered the film but figured since it was picking it up to feed that should be good, however now realizing I have it set to manual feeding, I'll try when I get home you may be right, thank you. Which film do you use that works well?

Couldn't edit previous comment so here is the video, and it printed fine with regular ink, and like I said also prints test page, just no actual image, and I have tried multiple png files as well. 0201221927.mp4