Epson F2100 Bright White & Bright Color Prints Every Time - ProDTG Tip
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Forget everything you know about printing on the Epson F2100. This video will show you 3 simple steps to guarantee bright white and color prints every time. - Digital Monday
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This video addresses troubleshooting dull and faded prints on the Epson F2100.
Learn how to do 3 simple steps to ensure perfect prints every time on the Epson F2100.
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0:00 Intro
1:17 Nozzle Check Printer Maintenance
2:55 How to Pretreat
10:02 Shirt Selection
13:24 Recap
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Amazing video. Thank you mate
Glad you enjoyed it
Great info thanks
You bet
i love you for this video mane
Glad to help. Keep up the good work!
Cool
That's one hell of a video.Thanks for doing this :) . may you live like a yeehaw forever :p
Also that Spider lol
Much obliged. Hope it helped
excellent video for people like me who are starting in this. I wanted to ask you what you think about garments that come from the factory "ready" DTG or is the treatment always necessary beforehand?
Glad you found it helpful. Pre-pretreated shirts can be great. If you are finding your colors are a bit muted you can give the shirt a quick light spray with Alba Canned Pretreat. Here's the link. shopmelco.com/alba-pre-canned-pretreat/
The best video I Saw... Good job... A question. What do you do after printing? Heat pres? How? How lomg? Temperature? Press? Please and thank you... You are amazing!!!!!
Awww yeah! Thanks for the love. To cure the shirt, you can either run through a forced air conveyor dryer or use a heat press. Heat press should be about 350 for 110 seconds, light pressure, the heating element should hardly be touching the garment.
@@MelcoEmbroidery Thank you for your answer. I appreciate it. What T-shirt supplier do you recommend for my business? Thank you👕💙
Great video!! Do you have one on artwork? Some of the does and don’t when creating artwork using CorelDraw. What color pallet gets the best results using the DTG.
Glad you enjoyed the video, hope it was helpful! Here is a video I made on preparing art for DTG. czcams.com/video/RvnQ_XSwTJI/video.html
I also wrote an article you might find helpful. prodtg.com/2016/06/28/how-to-prepare-art-for-dtg-printing/
great video John
Thanks Francisco!
Great Video but need your help. I'm printing on Next Level Black, I think I pretreated correctly twice at 4.5, the print looks awesome, I do see a little white bleed through on the epson table, but the print quality is awesome until I put in on teh heat press. 345 for 75 seconds, and the shirt dulls down. I've played with printer setting like boost ink destinity, but still no luck after the heat press. Thoughts please.
So the heat press will often encourage dye migration meaning when the shirt and ink is subject to heat and pressure, the dye in the garment will migrate through the ink. The solution is to use almost no pressure on the heat press. Or better yet, buy a small forced air conveyor dryer. These dryers maintain the best color after cure. shopmelco.com/bbc-forced-air-conveyor-dryer-2408/
What about curing the shirt? What time, temp and pressure do you guys reccomend?
Good question. 360ish for 120 seconds with universal pretreat 75 seconds with Epson pretreat. Light to no pressure.
what do you use for the settings on the printer to get the nice whites? And do you press the shirt immediately after it comes off the printer? Been having issues with the color loss after pressing the shirt.
I use level 4 and bump up the white and color density a bit. I cure the shirt at 375 for 90 seconds or so, with low pressure. If you are experiencing color loss, that is a result of the dye in the garment migrating through the print. What brand of shirt are you using? Generally the solution is to use a different blank and reduce heat, pressure, and time on your heat press.
i got epson2000 DTG printer and can't seem to work it. I've got everything new, inks etc. have done the Maintenance, tube clean etc. easily BUT i can't seem to get a good print. My images are soo blurry and creepy looking LOL, colors are so off as well! i don't know what I'm doing wrong??? i read they need to be PNG files which I have transitioned to. I don't know what else to do or what it can be? ANY help would greatly be appreciated
Email me Jledrew@melco.com
How many ink layers/ passes are you doing on dark shirts?
On a recommended Ring Spun garment I use level 3 or 5. If you use an open ended budget blank, you'll need more. Watch this video. czcams.com/video/bJiIJ2suIrs/video.html
Hii I am from India & I have recently bought F2130. So, can you please make a video on the print settings that was used to get such vibrant print. Thanks in advance
The point of this video is to show that your setting in Garment Creator are not as relevant to vibrant prints as the 3 main steps. Focus on the 3 steps and use level 3 or 5 in Garment Creator. If level 3 or 5 doesn't give you bright vibrant prints, then go back and master the 3 steps, it's that easy.
@@MelcoEmbroidery Thanks Sir for your valuable comment. But level 3 or 5 for which setting? Print Quality?
Hello I have the Eason melco G2 do you have any idea that it works similar or is it a little different ? Thx
Yeah the concept is the same. Good quality shirts, good quality pretreat application, and a good nozzle check should deliver a good quality result on any DTG printer.
@@MelcoEmbroidery TY
HI!
After its printed, can you dry the ink on the conveyor belt ?? or can heat pressed
Thanks!!
Hello, yes a forced air conveyor dryer works extremely well with Epson ink. Here is a quick video. czcams.com/video/kulHRdjk32Q/video.html
If your dryer is not forced air, it will take considerably longer to cure the ink and may not fully cure at all. Air is required to remove the moisture barrier and allow the heat to penetrate the ink for a full cure.
I didn't realise you don't have to print straight away after pre treatment. also do you have to clean machine after every use or just at end of day? what is simple green? :D )I'm UK based) and lastly, is that a special cover on the heat press?
Hi Rachel, Rule of thumb is to never let your pretreat solution sit in the lines for more than an hour. You can use basically any general cleaning spray bottle solution. Cleaning products with a lot of ammonia could be less effective, worth trying a few out. Basically, you are trying to breakdown that pretreat so it doesn't build up and gum up the tiny parts. The heat press cover is teflon, It's pretty common, should be easy to find. I suggest one for the heating element and one for the platen.
Do you need to pre treat also a light heather grey t shirt?
Not white but yet very light color?
You only need to pretreat if you use white ink. If you are pretreating lt grey, I suggest 80% water 20% Epson or Ecofreen pretreat and spray it fast so you don't have a lot of buildup, this way you will avoid staining and still get a nice bright print if you are using a good quality ring spun shirt. If you try this method on a budget blank, your result will be muted no matter how much pretreat you lay down.
@@MelcoEmbroidery
Once again must say how much I admire your chanel and your quick response
So if I print navy blue on light heather grey
Or multiple colors without white
I still dont need pre treat?
Thank you
I'm considering purchasing a printer
And still not sure
Thank you we're happy to help! You are correct, if you put dark colors on light color garments, you don't need white and therefore don't need to pretreat.
What about the curing process??
Heat press at 375 for about 120 seconds, very light pressure. Or a conveyor dryer.
I have double checked all these steps and i'm still having a problem with white turning clear or printing clear. What could be causing this.
Hard to say without seeing a photo. Email me jledrew@melco.com
How it should be washed??Cold or hot water and what about to dry it…?
My understanding is any normal wash cycle you would use for shirts will be fine.
@@MelcoEmbroidery thanks 🙏🏻…by the way I have a Roland Truevis Sg2-300 printer..my question is,can I make flyers with that?
Ive gotten really good results, bright white and vibrant color on Gildans. Hanes Nano are the worst so Im not sure why you consider those as good shirts. Just my opinion.
Everyone has a slightly different techniques and results, I am thrilled to hear you are receiving results you are happy with. Happy Printing!
Which Gildan do you recommend for dtg? Do the Gildan premium work well?
That spider scared the shit out of me
Haha! Boo
Mystery to me how DTG actually makes money. Companies must be charging a metric assload per shirt to print with DTG or they're so frickin busy the machine never has a chance to stop and clog. Otherwise there's just no way. Got a friend that works at amazons merch department and they blow at least 3 print heads a month on their epson farm. if they can't keep the machines moving enough to avoid full on head failures (as in unable to unclog) then there's no way a small business is going to avoid it.
Thank you for your thoughts and you make some interesting points, however you are overlooking a few factors that make the Epson F2100 a totally viable revenue stream. 1. It's extremely versatile. You can print transfers affordably, fast, and full color, that permanently adhere to almost any fabric. I's portable, you can take the machine to events and print on site. You can do large volume or one offs. Full color custom prints in less than 5 minutes. DTG is perfect for print on demand, sell then print, e-commerce platforms. 2. The F2100 is extremely reliable. Very little maintenance, the industries leading trouble free warranty, almost no ink waste, and virtually no down time. Clogging is no longer an issue with the F2100, automated cleanings, running ink changes that get better over time, internal circulation, multiple filters, print head fabric wiper, anti drying capping station, the thing is a turn on, use it, turn off product, it just works. And the best part! If it doesn't work, call Epson support, they come fix it within two days for free, all part of the warranty. The F2100 is by far and away the leading and best selling DTG printer of all time for a reason, it works and it prints cash. I can't speak about your friend at Amazon but I can say every mass produced print house I have been in, wether it's Kornit, Brother, Aeon, they all have a full on repair shop for their printers. They run those things hard, clean them infrequently, and treat them as disposable. If anyone is looking to add DTG to their decoration offerings, I am confident in the F2100 as the best possible and most profitable solution. If there was a better option, believe me, we would sell it.
so conflicting. epson techs suggest leaving the machine turned on and to print a nozzle check once a day
Always turn your machine off, it initiates the suction cap cleaning cycle. The tech is misinformed.
@@MelcoEmbroidery I’m hearing so many conflicting stories. I was told the suction cap engages when the machine is on but idle like sleep mode
plz stop using this silly harsh sound effects and cuts. i get it you want to be relatable and funny but its just annoying fr