When using water-based sublimation inks ,Some things to be aware of it

When we use water-based sublimation inks in sublimation printing, we often ignore some of the problems. Sometimes these problems can make the printed images very poor and may even cause damage to the nozzles. Therefore, we cannot ignore these issues and we must pay attention to them. Here are some common questions and things to note.
1. When sublimation printing, pay attention to controlling the parameters of heat transfer sublimation ink, including ink viscosity, fluidity, thixotropic and plasticity.

Water-based Sublimation Ink

2. Pay attention to the control indicators of water-based ink. The control indicators of water-based inks mainly include fineness, viscosity, pH value and drying speed, which play a decisive role in the application of ink.
3. Since the aqueous ink is a pure aqueous system, care should be taken not to mix the aqueous ink with the alcohol ink and the solvent ink or to add an organic solvent to the ink to avoid printing quality problems.
4. When using water-based ink, it should be stirred evenly. After measuring the viscosity, pour it into the ink tank. If the viscosity is not suitable, adjust it with thinner or thickener, and pay attention to controlling the pH value of the ink. Generally, it is controlled at 8.5~ 9.5. During the printing process, due to the volatilization of water, the viscosity of the ink will increase and the pH will drop. Therefore, the use of the ink should be observed frequently. If the viscosity of the ink is increased or the pH is outside the control range, the diluent and pH stabilizer should be used in time. Adjust to ensure viscosity and pH stability.

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5. Under normal circumstances, the sublimation printing ink is very suitable for high-speed printing. If the drying speed is too fast or the printing effect is not good during low-speed printing, a certain proportion of slow-drying agent can be added.

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A solution for textile sublimation transfer ink foaming in a continuous supply cartridge

When we use the textile sublimation transfer ink for a while, we will find some problems with the ink supply system, such as sudden power failure during printing, missing print colors, ink bubbles, etc. Do you know what causes this? To solve it, the following are the problems and solutions.

1.Fault phenomenon

(1).The continuous sublimation ink supply system has been working for a few months and cannot be printed now.

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(2).Many cleaning commands are executed every day before normal printing.
(3).Printed test leads always have unfixed breaks.
(4).The test line is normal at the beginning of printing, but after printing a few pages, the continuous ink supply system is broken.
(5).Printing is always missing a color (usually black)
(6).External cartridge has been in the low position for a long time, now the ink line does not feed ink.
(7).Ink bubbling

2.The solution

The above failure phenomenon is caused by the foaming of the ink in the ink cartridge. After six months of use, the continuous ink supply system gradually accumulates ink from a small amount of tiny air bubbles in the ink and a small amount of air bubbles entering the print cartridge from the print head. The maintenance method is not complicated, and the bubbles are taken out and replaced with normal ink.
Incorrectly lowering the external ink cartridge will also accelerate the formation of the ink chamber foam, even if the continuous ink supply system of the original Epson ink cartridge is used.

Textile Sublimation Transfer Ink

It can be seen that the reason for the foaming of the heat transfer sublimation ink in the ink cartridge is related to many factors, so whether we are in daily use or routine maintenance, we must pay attention to regularly clean the ink cartridge and check whether the line is abnormal. Pay attention to the aging of the test line and the neatness of the ink cartridge. If you have any questions, please leave a message below the post.

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How to Test That Your UV Printing Ink Is Completely Dry

When we use UV printing ink to print the picture, we often pick it up because we don't know if the ink is dry, which causes the picture to be blurred. Do you know how to judge whether the ink is completely dry?

UV Printing Ink

UV printer ink, it is a kind of ink, used for UV printing UV printer. UV ink curing process is a kind of photo chemical reaction process, is a process of a linear structure into a mesh structure, so the printing ink layer with water, alcohol and abrasion resistance, anti-aging, and many other advantages, including less than other types of this ink scratch resistance and chemical resistance, it is one of the main requirements combination label printing.
The principle of UV curing also determines that it is very suitable for printing non-absorbent printing materials.
As a type of ink, UV printer inks must have bright colors (except under special conditions), good print ability and a suitable curing and drying rate. At the same time with good adhesion, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, weather resistance and other characteristics. When we use UV ink, ensure that UV printer ink drying is very important.

There are four ways to determine how UV printer ink is fully cured by UV lamps.

1. Pencil hardness test:

Tested by a pencil hardness tester and, if required (usually 3-4h), the ink has been completely cured. If not, consider the timing of the curing, the power of the UV lamp, and the speed of the UV belt conveyor.

2. Drop solvent test:

Depending on the solvent function, the propionic acid solution drips on the surface for 2 minutes, and if confirmed, the ink is not dried by the UV lamp. Ink completely solidified, internal molecular structure changes, and then ink form a solid coating.

3. Pressure maintenance:

UV Printer

With the bottom flat surface about 500g weight, put a small amount of cotton fiber on the product surface, the weight of cotton fiber in a few minutes, then remove it, if the cotton silk fiber will not stick to it, you can confirm the ink completely cured.

4. Surface appearance:

The surface of the fully cured UV ink is very bright and does not appear on the surface of the ink. There is no shadow on the edge, and the whole effect is perfect.


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Can I Use Water Based Sublimation Ink In A Normal Paper?

In the sublimation printing process, the most commonly used is sublimation paper and water based sublimation ink, but considering the price of sublimation, many people want to replace the sublimation paper with ordinary paper. Is this method feasible?

Water-based Sublimation Ink

On this question, first, let us understand the particularity of dye sublimation ink and sublimation paper. The basic principle of sublimation printing is sublimation, using sublimation printing ink high temperature sublimation to complete the transfer of ink. In the meantime, sublimation transfer paper is sublimation dye ink temporary carrier.
Sublimation printing ink is unique, especially suitable for sublimation industry, and ordinary ink is very different. Sublimation printing ink is often used with sublimation paper, which has a sublimation coating and a rough surface. So, can sublimation transfer ink be used with regular paper? If so, what to do?
As we all know, the surface of ordinary printing paper is fine and smooth, tactile good, but without good recovery ability, most of the ink will infiltrate into the paper, even after heating is difficult to transfer.....So,if you use regular paper and sublimation textile ink, the problem is that only a portion of the sublimation printer ink is transferred to the product, which affects the saturation and clarity of the image, and eventually the image will look blurry.

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From the above analysis, ordinary paper can not complete sublimation printing. In addition, the heating time also affects the final image clarity. When using sublimation transfer paper for printing, due to its good reducibility, there will be a bright image, the heating time is relatively short. If we use plain paper, the color transfer will be reduced in the traditional heating time. In general, we provide the heating time is the use of sublimation paper time. Therefore, if ordinary paper is used, it is inevitable to extend the heating time, but the time is difficult to control.
To sum up, if you want to use sublimation ink with ordinary paper, it must be appropriate to extend the heating time, and deepen the printing color, to ensure a certain success rate. But often we can not determine the effect of printing, so we still recommend that you use sublimation paper for printing, please do not waste sublimation blank because of saving money, it will not be worth it.

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Inkjet Ink-How to Pick It Correctly When Digital Textile Printing

Do you know how to choose a inkjet ink for your inkjet printer?Here are some ways to help you pick it correctly.

1.Definition of digital textile printing

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Digital printing is similar to using a printer to print on a piece of paper, but the intended medium is textiles for use in shirts and blankets. Printing with a digital textile machine offers advantages over traditional methods in that new colors and designs can be added to the fabric. Some fabrics are porous and absorb ink, and others are not, so a non-bleeding unit must be added to the digital textile printing unit so that these other fabrics do not bleed after printing. The disadvantages of this type printing are from spot coloring inaccuracy, slower printing times and difficulty in digital setup.

This type of printing is nearly the same as using a regular printer. Most textile printers look like a wide-format poster printer and have a roll of fabric attached to the back. When the operator loads an image into the computer and prints it, the textile printer draws in fabric from the roll and then uses an ink-loaded carrier that moves back and forth to get the ink onto the fabric.

2.How to correctly select ink for inkjet printer

Textile inkjet inks are split into four main categories, each with chemical and physical properties specifically designed to work with the target fabric.

1) Reactive dye-based inks (or reactive inks) are ideal for printing cotton, linen, silk and plant derived fibers such as hemp and jute. Reactive inks have good light fastness as well as typically bright colours. Wash fastness is also good due to the chemical bond created between the dye and the fabric. Readily available and inexpensive pre-treated fabrics are often used when printing with reactive inks, although major manufacturers often do their own pre-treatment.  After printing, these inks need to be post-treated by steaming and washing.

2) Acid dye-based based inks (acid inks) are designed for printing nylon, silk, wool and even leather. They are used to manufacture sportswear, swimwear, lingerie, flags, banners and accessories including ties and scarves. Like reactive inks, acid based inks are also bright but typically have better light fastness. Wash fastness is also good due to the strong bond created between the substrate and dye stuff. Pre-treated fabrics and post-process steaming and washing are also a necessity.

3) Disperse dye-based inks (disperse inks) are used for printing polyester fabrics. They are generally not as bright as acid and reactive inks. When heated to high temperatures the dye becomes gaseous and is absorbed into the polyester fibers. As the dye cools and condenses it gets trapped in the fibers, making fabrics printed with disperse inks highly resistant to laundering. 

Disperse inks are typically divided into low and high energy inks. The former (also known as dye sublimation inks) have good light fastness and can be printed onto paper and then transferred to polyester or printed directly on the polyester itself and heated in an oven or transfer press. Due to their excellent light fastness, high energy direct disperse inks are often chosen for the most taxing outdoor applications such as lawn furniture. All high energy disperse inks must be printed direct to fabric and then undergo heat fixation.

Inkjet Ink

4) Pigmented inks use a pigment (insoluble in the ink carrier) rather than a dye (soluble in the ink carrier) to provide coloration. They contain resin binders which help the pigment particles to adhere to the fabric, meaning that the inks can be used across a very wide range of fabric types. However, the inclusion of resin in the composition can limit the amount of pigment possible, as both components raise the ink viscosity. Typically inks with high amounts of colour have low amounts of resin and thus low wash fastness. Conversely, pigment inks with good wash fastness often have higher resin and lower colour intensity. The binder properties and concentration also need to be chosen carefully to avoid affecting the 'feel' of the fabric. Pigment inks typically have very good light fastness and the ability to be used on a wide range of fabrics is a significant advantage. UV curing or heating is sufficient for fixation, and so the inks are simple to use.

We should use the appropriate digital textile ink according to the printed materials , it will print the best images.

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Eco-Solvent Ink-How to Distinguish Its Quality and Choose It Better

Eco-solvent inks are mostly used in indoor and outdoor advertising industries. This kind of ink is green and environmentally friendly. It is an excellent choice for advertisers.

The definition

Eco-solvent ink also known as light-solvent ink, takes longer to dry, which entails less maintenance for the printer itself. The ink is able to print on a variety of uncoated

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surfaces and maintain its bright colors. Once printed, the ink will be waterproof and resistant to scratches. Your graphic will last up to three years before the color begins to fade. When using this ink, there will be a wide range of colors available. In addition to standard CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) inks, you may have the additional option of adding green, white, violet, orange, light magenta, light black and light cyan. Depending on your printer, you may have the opportunity to print in metallic shades. If you print on vinyl, your graphic will require a layer of white ink in order to keep your graphic visible in front of a direct light source. It is best for trade show graphics, window hangings, banners and vinyl graphics.

How to Discern the Quality?

1. Ink purity

Depend on the PH value, water content, impurities of the ink can identify high-quality inks. Low purity ink have great damage on print head.

2. Do not wipe print head frequently

Do not frequently wipe the print head when you use high quality ink. It is a waste of ink, but also easy to produce color, thus affecting your resolution of the ink. 

3. the performance of high-quality ink

High-quality ink is not flammable explosion and low damage to the human body. Most importantly, high-quality this ink with light and weather resistance, outdoor painting can withstand long-term sun, the seasons will not change the color difference.

4.The way to buy inks

It is recommended to go to a well-known store or a cooperative company to buy this ink. For example, like Nanjing Feiyue Digital Technology Co.,LTD, our ink is green and color fast, and the degree of washing is 4-5,wide gamut,good transfer rate.High compatibility,suitable for the printer equipped with dx5,ftp,dx7,5113,4720 print heats.

How to use the inks better?

1. Because of some characteristics of the this ink itself, the selection of CISS system should be particularly careful. Sometimes,the outer ink cartridge leaks when people use the ink and then the elbow connecting the ink pipeline blockages,and eventually lead to sprinkler printing broken line.Therefore,it is necessary to remember ink should be used with corrosion resistant cartridges,especially for desktop printers. If the equipment is not used for a long time, attention should be paid to the cleaning of the nozzle part so as to avoid the clogging of the nozzle caused by the volatilization and solidification of residual ink.

2.Water-based eco-solvent ink can be coat-free printing on some materials, or can be coat-free by means of printer heating, but for some smooth surfaces, ink can not be printed on by itself and will accumulate together which will lead to a unclear image.

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This inks are generally used in the advertising industry,If you want to use in the clothing and home industries, sublimation inks are more suitable.

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Sublimation Ink -Five Ways to Tell You How to Correctly Choose It

 Sublimation Ink 

Sometimes we often heard a lot of people mentioned to the things of  sublimation inks, some or because the ink plug the nozzle, or the ink quality is not good to lead the print out the effect is not very satisfactory. For the textile sublimation transfer ink selection problems I will share how to correctly select the ink.

1. Reduction rate

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Sublimation ink is mainly through the sublimation of the characteristics of the image will be transferred to the product, so the color reduction rate is more important. The average reduction rate of imported ink can reach 90%, basically after the transfer of thermal transfer paper above the image is close to the white. So the color saturation of the image is very good, and the color is brighter.

2. The size of the thermal transfer consumables ink particles

Large particles of sublimation of ink is likely to cause the phenomenon of printer plug, and the production of the product image is not enough, with a magnifying glass to watch the time to be able to see the grain. In general, the domestic sublimation of ink particles will be larger than the amount of imported digital sublimation transfer ink particles, which led to the printer to read and transfer the image is not enough delicate.

3. Color purity

The problem should be that we often encounter, some poor quality dye sublimation ink black is some red and purple. For the thermal transfer ink, the black ink is the most easy to color, so we can choose the time to play a black color block under the transfer to see if the color after the transfer is not black. This is also the most direct distinction between the advantages of sublimation printing ink important indicators.

4. The price of thermal transfer supplies ink

Sublimation Transfer Ink

Thermal transfer supplies ink is divided into three categories, one is made of ink, one is imported ink, one is the domestic production of imported materials. Domestic ink is the domestic production of domestic raw materials, as imports of ink is divided into the United States, South Korea and German.The other is the excellent ink ink company's imports of raw materials, domestic production, import thermal transfer ink in the color reduction rate and saturation and the degree of sophistication are domestic ink can not be compared, the only advantage of domestic thermal sublimation transfer ink is the price comparison Low, able to meet some of the product quality requirements are not very high customers.

From the above four basic tips of select sublimation transfer ink , I hope it can help you to choose a high quality ink.


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