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Dye Sub Printing Faded Colors

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I'm new to dye sublimation. I've purchased the Ricoh GX e3300N printer, the SubliJet-R ink package, and the GreenStar transfer paper from US Cutter. I'm following the heat pressing instructions, and am only using white cotton/poly blend fabric, as that's the setup I purchased. I've set the color settings in Photoshop per instructions, and selected Saturation under Intent. Under the printer settings, I've also selected saturation. I've even tryed over-saturated the image in Photoshop before sending it to print. And I've tried printing from both a RGB file and CMYK. But I'm still getting faded, washed out colors. Can anyone give any suggestions for what I'm missing or doing wrong? Thank you, Andee

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with anything except 100 percent poly shirts you will get a faded look as only the poly threads will accept dye.  Can't comment on the greenstar paper as I have not used it but hopefully it is a quality dye trans paper.  cotton will not accept dye sub ink.

I would also call tech support for their input on this ;D

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