Mlink in the building.

[GraphicDisorder]

Here was the digital mock up of this from when we screen printed it.

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Heres another, Brother left, M&R Right. Staggering differences on this print.

Brother -
Print Time: 5:31
Ink Use: 1.85 CMYK / 11.58 White
Print Cost: $6.76

Mlink-
Print Time: 5:11
Ink Use:  .96 CMYK / 4.35 White
Print Cost: $1.30

Pretty much nothing right about the Brother Print on this one. White looks bad, real bad. Splotchy, not bright. Even the underabse was not as bright as I would have figured as it was printing it. So on this one the M&R was faster, better, and cheaper.  Second image is close up of the Brother, 3rd is the M&R.

[bulldog]

Wow, what do you think is contributing to such big differences now when it seemed they were printing fairly similar before?

[mimosatexas]

Yea, little confused here as well.  If these are "best settings" for each machine, why are these looking worse than your untouched out of the box brother prints from last week?

[GraphicDisorder]

Wow, what do you think is contributing to such big differences now when it seemed they were printing fairly similar before?

No idea. The nozzle checks were good, did all the maintenance as instructed.  Its going down hill fast.   In the interest of being honest, the print before this picture of the same design off the Brother I made them reprint it it was so bad.  So It cost me 2 prints to go from terrible to bad.

[GraphicDisorder]

Yea, little confused here as well.  If these are "best settings" for each machine, why are these looking worse than your untouched out of the box brother prints from last week?

These are the same settings as last week, that's why this is confusing to us as well.  Nothing has changes other than the machine sat all weekend.  Nozzle checks are good. Puzzling.  Everything we've printed prior to today has been pretty similar on each machine other than the Legends shirt. So this is interesting.

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Yea, little confused here as well.  If these are "best settings" for each machine, why are these looking worse than your untouched out of the box brother prints from last week?

These are the same settings as last week, that's why this is confusing to us as well.  Nothing has changes other than the machine sat all weekend.  Nozzle checks are good. Puzzling.  Everything we've printed prior to today has been pretty similar on each machine other than the Legends shirt. So this is interesting.

I will go out on a limb as I am not there and say the white has an issue from sitting over the weekend. I don't know how to clean it out but I think that is the issue. Our machine has a built in solution for this issue.

[bulldog]

What is the difference in shutdown vs mlink to brother? I'm assuming you have to have some fluid in the capping station on each?

[GraphicDisorder]

What is the difference in shutdown vs mlink to brother? I'm assuming you have to have some fluid in the capping station on each?

Brother we were told to shut it off.  Mlink stays running and agitates/cycles ink.  The Brother does this all on boot up, shake carts, agitate process on the head.  Each have nozzle checks to run before printing. 

Yea, little confused here as well.  If these are "best settings" for each machine, why are these looking worse than your untouched out of the box brother prints from last week?

These are the same settings as last week, that's why this is confusing to us as well.  Nothing has changes other than the machine sat all weekend.  Nozzle checks are good. Puzzling.  Everything we've printed prior to today has been pretty similar on each machine other than the Legends shirt. So this is interesting.

I will go out on a limb as I am not there and say the white has an issue from sitting over the weekend. I don't know how to clean it out but I think that is the issue. Our machine has a built in solution for this issue.

Something has to be up for sure. Looks way worse than it had in the past.

[bulldog]

Can you do a head cleaning? Not sure if that would help or not.

[bimmridder]

Not to ride on Rich's coattails, but that was my first thought also.

[GraphicDisorder]

Can you do a head cleaning? Not sure if that would help or not.

Did all that this AM, nozzles checked out good.  So its a bit odd. 

[Dottonedan]

I would look at the pre treat. Assure yourself that the pre treat is actually happening as it should for both tees equally. Assure its an apples to apples. It visually seems as if the brother tee may have not received enough pre treat. This would make the ink brighter. Was ithe brother the first on the pre treat or 2nd?  You may have to do a test scrap pre treat at the very beginning of the morning to get consistant results.

[GraphicDisorder]

I would look at the pre treat. Assure yourself that the pre treat is actually happening as it should for both tees equally. Assure its an apples to apples. It visually seems as if the brother tee may have not received enough pre treat. This would make the ink brighter. Was ithe brother the first on the pre treat or 2nd?  You may have to do a test scrap pre treat at the very beginning of the morning to get consistant results.

M&R was first I believe, but we spray a few times on the Pretreat machine in the AM. I think we have some other issue going on because as mentioned we had been seeing mostly similar prints.  We are so behind its not looking good for much testing today. 

[jvieira]

Yea, little confused here as well.  If these are "best settings" for each machine, why are these looking worse than your untouched out of the box brother prints from last week?

These are the same settings as last week, that's why this is confusing to us as well.  Nothing has changes other than the machine sat all weekend.  Nozzle checks are good. Puzzling.  Everything we've printed prior to today has been pretty similar on each machine other than the Legends shirt. So this is interesting.

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