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What Will Occur after DTF Film Printer Ink Cartridge is Damaged?

We all know that the DTF Film Printer is the mainstay of the apparel printing industry and occupy a certain position in the apparel printing industry. Moreover, DTF Film Printer Ink are made up of many accessories. And their main accessories are boards, nozzles, ink cartridges, ink sacs, carts, ink tubes, grating strips, etc. Today SUBLICOOL will take you to understand the role of ink cartridges and what kind of malfunctions will occur after the ink cartridge is damaged.

A3 DTF printer for t-shirts
A3 DTF printer for t-shirts

The role of DTF transfer ink cartridges:

As the name suggests, the ink cartridge is a container for ink. Its shell is made of plastic and has the function of storing ink and ink delivery. When the ink in the ink cartridge is close to running out or below the pressure line. The DTF printer will send an ink shortage signal. We can open the cover of the ink cartridge to check whether the ink is used up. If the ink is already below the pressure line, new ink should be added in time. If the ink is not added in time, the print color will fade. The print pattern will be unclear or ghosting will occur.

What kind of malfunctions will occur after the DTF printer ink cartridge is damaged?

If we find that there are yin and yang colors, wavy lines, color changes of printed patterns, ghosting, etc. during printing. It is very likely related to the ink cartridge. At this time, we can check whether the vent of the ink cartridge is blocked. If it is blocked, it will not be able to inhale air. And the external pressure is too low, so the ink will not come out. At this time, you need to reopen the vent to make the air inlet smooth.

Direct-to-Film printer
Direct-to-Film printer

If the above operations cannot solve the problem, we can also check whether the ink supply tube is blocked.

When checking the ink supply tube, you need to turn off the switch of the DTF printing for T-shirts carriage and cut off the power before operating. The operation method is: use a syringe to press air into the ink tube. This step is mainly to dredge the impurities in the pipeline so that the ink can resume smooth flow and resume ink supply.

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