SubliJet IQ™ Getting Started Guide For EPSON Stylus® PRO 4000 Revision 8/2005
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 SubliJet IQ™ Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus® PRO 4000 © Copyright 2005, Sawgrass Technologies, Inc., Revision August 2005. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. SubliJet® is a registered trademark of Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ™ is a registered trademark of Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. Epson® and Stylus® are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation.
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Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Table of Contents About this Document ......................................................................................... 8 Installing SubliJet IQ™ Cartridges ................................................................... 9 Selecting Paper ................................................................................................ 12 Heat Transfer Instructions........................................
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Troubleshooting ............................................................................................... 49 Technical Support ............................................................................................ 52 Project Sublimation..........................................................................................
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of SubliJet IQ™ digital transfer inks. The SubliJet IQ™ sublimation ink cartridges are the latest advancement for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 from Sawgrass Technologies, Inc., a leader in the development of digitally driven color transfer technologies and related products.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 About this Document This document contains descriptions and procedures for using SubliJet IQ™ ink, along with additional information for getting the best results from your transfers. The documentation provided pertains only to the use of SubliJet IQ™ ink in your EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 ink jet printer.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Installing SubliJet IQ™ Cartridges If you are replacing existing cartridges because they are low or empty, please see the following instructions. If not, go directly to step #1 When a cartridge is low or empty, INK LOW or INK OUT will display on the LCD panel. The ink indicator - 8 bars which represent the 8 cartridges on the LCD Panel will flash indicating which cartridge is low or empty.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 3. Remove the empty ink cartridge from the printer. 4. Remove the replacement ink cartridge from its packaging and insert it into the slot with the label facing left. Do not force the cartridge into the slot. If the cartridge does not insert smoothly into the slot, double check to make sure you have the correct cartridge installed in the correct slot.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 6. Close the ink compartment cover if you have standard size ink cartridges installed. If you have extended cartridges installed in the printer, you will need to leave the cover open. 7. Once the cartridge is installed the printer will return to its READY state. 8. This completes your install.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Selecting Paper For information on selecting the appropriate paper to use with your SubliJet IQ™ inks, please check our website at http://www.sublimation.com/support/ or call your authorized SubliJet reseller. While the use of copy paper or other inkjet paper will not harm your printer, the transferred results may be light, splotchy, or uneven. Some papers may even stick to the surface or leave a visible residue.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Heat Transfer Instructions Because you can print on a variety of surfaces, you need to take all variables of the surface into account when selecting time, temperature, and pressure. Some of the variables are: thickness of surface, how fast the surface absorbs heat, coatings used on the material to create a receptive surface for sublimation inks (ceramics, metals, etc.
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Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 PowerDriver Introduction Obtaining the benefits of PowerDriver color management is now incredibly easy - simply print from your application with PowerDriver IQ® or PowerDriver XG® rather than the Epson printer driver. PowerDriver prints your image just like the Epson printer driver except for the colors.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 System Requirements Minimum Hardware: Pentium 4 – 2.0GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ Processor 512 MB System Memory Recommended Hardware: Pentium 4 – 3.0GHz or Athlon XP 2500+ Processor 1 GB System Memory Setup Instructions – Windows 98 / ME Product Overview While PowerDriver IQ appears to work like any other printer driver software, it relies on the Epson printer driver software to perform the actual printing.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Software Installation – Windows 98 / ME For all Epson printers: 1. If you have not already done so, install your Epson printer driver software. 2. Insert the PowerDriver IQ CD into your CDROM drive. 3. If the program does not automatically start, run the PowerDriver IQ setup program by choosing Run… from the Start menu. Browse to the installation program on the CD. It will be named Install.exe. 4.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 6. Select the appropriate choice for acceptance of the Licensing Agreement to continue. 7. Choose your printer and press the Install button.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 8. To promote ease of use with the Sawgrass ColorSure™ color management system, PowerDriver IQ gives you the option of copying a Corel palette and an Adobe Color swatch file to your computer. 20 o If you have Corel software installed on your computer, select Install Corel Palettes - the ColorSure palette for Corel products will be copied to the specified directory.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Registration – Windows 98 After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to register your version of PowerDriver IQ. Registering is the only way to take full advantage of the features in PowerDriver IQ. To obtain your registration code, you can register on-line or you can call Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. at (843) 884-1575 between 8:00 AM and 5:30 PM EST.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Setup Instructions – Windows 2000 and XP Product Overview PowerDriver IQ and PowerDriver XG are color management software solutions that have been written as a Windows printer driver. It is designed to work with Epson ink-jet printers and Sawgrass sublimation ink.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. 5. Insert the PowerDriver CD into your CDROM drive. The installation program should run automatically. (If the program does not automatically run, click Start, Run. Browse to your CDROM drive and click on Setup). 6. 7. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 The Welcome screen is displayed. Click Next to proceed. The License Agreement is displayed next. Select the appropriate choice for acceptance of the Licensing Agreement to continue.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 8. If you have not previously registered PowerDriver, you will be prompted to do so. Registering is the only way to take full advantage of the features in PowerDriver IQ and PowerDriver XG. If you choose to register later, select Register Later and click Next to proceed with the installation. 9. If you choose to register now, the registration screen will be displayed.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 10. Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. provides ColorSure color palettes for use with Corel and Adobe. (Check the ColorSure section of the manual for information on how to use ColorSure to get perfect spot colors). If Setup detects either of these applications on your system, the palette files will be placed in the appropriate folder indicated in the Destination Folder box. Click Next to proceed with the installation.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 12. If you see the screen below, click Continue Anyway to proceed with the installation. 13. If the installation cannot find the printer port then you will be given the opportunity to choose the port you want to use for the product you are installing. Use the value that was recorded in step 4 above. 14. Once the installation has completed, the Installation Complete screen will display.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Using PowerDriver IQ in Windows 98 PowerDriver IQ is a simple to use printer driver that contains advanced color management technology. Whenever you have SubliJet inks in your printer, you should print using PowerDriver IQ. Do not print to your Epson printer with the Epson printer driver; printing with the Epson driver will not give you the benefit of color management.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Setting PowerDriver IQ™ printer properties To configure PowerDriver IQ for the correct substrate, you must display its printer properties. There are two ways to display the printer properties. 1. Click on Start> Settings> Printers. 2. Right-click on your PowerDriver IQ printer. 3. Select Properties from the pop-up menu. - or Display your Print Setup or Print dialog.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 From the PowerDriver IQ tab, you can verify and change all of your basic printer driver settings. Most of these settings are selfexplanatory; however, the color management settings require some clarification. Setting Sublimation Options Choosing the Substrate Look at the properties in the previous figure. You will see a section titled Substrate. This word describes the material you are transferring to.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Choosing Color Management Settings Look again at the properties dialog in the figure. The Color Management settings are found in two sections on the PowerDriver IQ™ tab: the Bitmap Color Management section, and the Vector Color Management section. The Color Management settings determine how PowerDriver IQ™ adjusts colors for printing both bitmap and vector graphics.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Vector Color Management ColorSure™ (Default) This option can be best described as “Painting by Number” color management. You design your artwork by choosing colors from the ColorSure palette. These colors, known as ColorSure colors, are passed through a special lookup table so that the final color will match the transferred palette color.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Mirroring Your Image When you heat transfer your image, the result is a mirror image of the original. Therefore, you will normally want to print your sublimation transfers mirrored. Then, when transferred, your image will look just the way it is supposed to. If the check-box labeled “Print as a mirror image” is checked, your artwork is mirrored during printing.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Using PowerDriver IQ™ and XG in Windows 2000 / XP PowerDriver IQ and PowerDriver XG are simple to use. Whenever you have SubliJet inks in your printer, you should print using PowerDriver. Do not print to your Epson printer with the Epson printer driver; printing with the Epson driver will not give you the benefit of color management. Quick Start Example (Corel Draw) 1) Open/Create an image in Corel Draw.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 PowerDriver Properties Overview The following figure shows the printer properties for a registered version of PowerDriver. The Advanced Color Options tab and the Print Palette functions will not be available if the product has not been registered. There are three main property groups; Configuration – Set Paper, Transfer Substrate, and Copy Count Color Settings – Color management control options.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Group 2 - Color Settings (Easy Color Mode) The Easy Color Option tab provides you with access to a collection of carefully selected color management presets. The right color management choice is essential to making high quality transfers. Easy Color is a fast, simple way of choosing a color management scheme. You choose an Easy Color setting based on the composition of the original image.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Print Palette Button – Prints the ColorSure palette for the selected substrate. ColorSure is a method for reproducing exact spot colors. The two main components are; 1) the transferred palette and 2) the CorelDraw, Corel PhotoPaint, and Adobe swatches. For a complete description on how to use ColorSure to get perfect spot colors, see appendix C.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Saturated - The Saturated setting will make the colors in your image more intense. Saturated output tries to remain color accurate with a slight bump in intensity. Vivid – This setting is most suitable for images where it is important that the colors are vivid and contrast well with each other.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Help – This will display a help dialog box for easy an overview of the PowerDriver driver functions and settings. Also contains a link to the Sawgrass Technologies website. Register – If the PowerDriver product has not been registered, click this button for instructions on how to register the product and unlock all the features.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Appendix A: Network Printing in Windows 2000, XP Network printing with PowerDriver in Windows 2000 and Windows XP is simple. Before a network printer can be used it must be installed on the network and shared. Host Machine (Server) The server machine must have installed the printer and have the printer shared. To install the networked printer, run Start | Setting | Printer | Add Printer.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Appendix B: Defeating Application Color Management PowerDriver provides a complete color management solution for your SubliJet printing. It is extremely important that you turn off any color matching features associated with your design software. An explanation of how to disable print-time color management in several popular design packages follows: CorelDraw™ version 9 1. Create a new graphic. 2.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 CorelDraw™ version 10, 11 and 12 1. Create a new graphic. 2. From the main menu choose Tools, Color Management. In the Color Management window (see figure below), set the Style option to Color Management Off. CorelDraw ™ (version 5, 6, or 7) If you are using version 5, 6, or 7 of CorelDRAW, ensure that you have the Printer Color Profile check box unchecked.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Adobe Photoshop™ 6 Color Setup From the main menu choose Edit, Color Settings. On the Color Settings dialog box: 1. Set all Color Management Policies to Off 2. Uncheck Profile Mismatches 3. Uncheck Ask When Opening.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 To Print CMYK Graphics Choose File, Print, and set the options as described below: Adobe Photoshop™ 7 and CS Color Setup From the main menu choose Edit, Color Settings. On the Color Settings dialog box, turn all Color Management Policies off. Turn off Profile Mismatches.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 To Print: Always select File, Print with Preview. On the print dialog page, set the options as described below: a. Check Show More Options b. Choose Color Management c. Choose Document as Source Space d. Choose Same as Source for Print Space From the Color Management drop option list, make sure that Source is set to “Document” and Print Space is set to “Same As Source”.
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Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Tips for Successful Sublimation POLYESTER FABRIC Maintain appropriate heat press times. Shortened pressing times will result in good surface color but the sublimation dyes will not completely penetrate the polyester fibers. This leaves the dyes more susceptible to wash out. Longer pressing times will cause the dye molecules to penetrate deeper into the fiber, creating a washed out look.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Hanes Soft L’Ink® Shirts The presence of moisture in your fabric can lead to bleeding of the image. Remove moisture by pre-pressing your shirt for 10 seconds. Use Teflon sheets between the front and back of the shirt to prevent the inks from penetrating to the other side of the shirt.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Supplies & Equipment Contact your reseller to purchase sublimation supplies and equipment. For more information, see the Sublimation Supplies Directory on our website at www.sublimation.com. Operating Conditions Certain environmental conditions should be taken into account for the operation of SubliJet inks, including temperature and relative humidity.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Troubleshooting The troubleshooting tips found in this section relate mainly to problems that can be seen in transferred SubliJet images. If you are having problems related to the performance of your printer, please refer to the Problem Solving section found in the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Printer User’s Guide. The colors in my transferred image are incorrect The image may need color adjustment.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 My image looks good but it washes out Ensure you pressed the garment with the proper time, temperature, and pressure. If so, try pressing longer to ensure that the dyes are penetrating the fibers sufficiently. For guidelines, see the section entitled Heat Transfer Instructions. Ensure you used a recommended paper. See the section entitled Selecting Paper.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Ensure you printed on the correct side of the paper. The print side is the bright white side of the paper. Ensure you do not have a moisture problem. Try drying the paper on the press or putting a paper towel behind the transfer when you heat press it. Read the section entitled Moisture and Humidity on the Tips for Successful Sublimation page. Verify that the printer’s print heads are properly aligned.
Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. SubliJet IQ® Getting Started Guide for the EPSON Stylus PRO 4000 Technical Support If you are having difficulties achieving good results from your SubliJet IQ™ inks, you have several support options: 1. Telephone: You may contact your authorized SubliJet reseller during their normal hours of operation for assistance. A full listing of authorized SubliJet Resellers is available on our Web site at www.sublimation.com.
