GT-3 Cookbook: All About White Ink:
Shake it and Refresh!
********* White Ink : Shake your groove thing for good print *********
Just remember that white ink is exactly like "Liquid Paper". You have to shake it and apply it with thick volume on the colored place. This metaphor will help you understand what should be done with white ink. White ink must be shaken once a day before "Daily Cleaning White". Why? Simply because the white pigment (TiO2) is heavy and always sinks to the bottom. The white ink keeps its whiteness while in use, if not used for more than 48 hours, ink must be shaken to ensure that the white pigment can be dispersed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
TiO2 in White Ink is always sinking everywhere all the time. | ||||||||||||||||||||
So, the first thing on your work day should be to start with the daily maintenance: |
HOW TO SHAKE CARTRIDGE | Hold both ends of a White Cartridge as shown in the figure below, because it is a little easier to hold the cartridge with the "side" at the bottom, and shake it to mix up the pigment of the ink inside the pouch, back and forth, upside down.
HOW TO REFRESH WHITE INK by Daily Cleaning White | Insert the White Ink Cartridges and select the menu "Daily Cleaning White" and "All Whites" and press [OK] button. It takes app. 5 minutes for four Whites (GT-381), half for two Whites (GT-361). On the whole, it takes about 8 minutes for GT-381 White maintenance and 4 minutes for GT-361: one minute for shaking one cartridge, and five minutes for refreshing the white ink for GT-381. Half for GT-361. | You do not have to "Daily Cleaning White" every morning, but do it every time on your working days. But what about the case when you print many, many T-shirts late at night and go on working early in the next morning? Well, we would like to say "shake the cartridges and print "Nozzle Check Pattern", and "Whiteness" (see Check it!) if you feel the print is white enough", of course the whiteness depends on the condition of the garment and the pretreatment tube cleaning, etc. so please check the whiteness as well as Nozzles. |
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HOW TO CONTROL THE WASTE VOLUME | If you print all day long yesterday, today and tomorrow, then you will not have to waste so many white ink everyday. We still cannot say the exact information, but please try to save your white ink by changing the volume. Select [Menu] > [Printer Setting] > [Daily Cleaning W Setting] and press OK button. Do not forget to shake the cartridge everyday, whatever the setting is. The default is 100% (five blocks marked), 50% up to 120%. For example, Monday morning (stopped during the weekend), we need the volume of 100%, but after
a whole day working, you may reduce the volume to minus one on Tuesday morning. | The keys are: Shake the white ink cartridges everyday you use. Do not forget to change the setting back Friday night or before holiday weekends, or you will struggle with the white-less white on the next business morning. Remember, the white pigment is always sinking at any place in the printer. One more advice: hold the White Cartridge a few seconds as the "spout" side at the bottom just before you insert it into the slot, to collect the ink around the needle, then you can use more of the ink inside the cartridge. |
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