Epson Ecotank Calibration

[Yi Pressimone]

Youcan click play on the video below and watch what I do to get my printer settings for sublimation. Then you can try to find these on your own computer to dial in what works best for your situation.

What happens when you convert an Epson EcoTank printer? The printer itself is adjusted to inks that are for inkjet printing. We are converting that to a sublimation printer with sublimation ink, and that may not print the colors the way you want them due to the difference in inks. With those converted printers, sometimes you have to do some color correction. A simple way to do that is to go to your ink manufacturer, get a customized ICC profile for your printer paper or combination, and use that. Sometimes that looks amazing and sometimes it does not. If your colors are still off, keep reading for another option!

NOTE: Anywhere where you have this screen, you can make a preset. It does not have to be Microsoft Word. This includes Paint and Cricut Design Space. There are a lot of free options out there to print your sublimation designs and make these presets.

I like to test my colors using a color chat. The color chart that I like to use for testing my colors is from HTML-color-codes.com. You can print it with any ICC profile or manual color corrections that you make to see what a difference it makes on your colors. Remember, testing is not just printing it on paper. You will want to press is to a 100% polyester cloth to actually see the colors.

Preheat your cloth, make sure you get all the moisture out, lint roll it well, then press the color chart that you print. That way you can tell what your colors will be like when you press them. What you print is not necessarily what you will get once you press. Grab some 100% polyester cloth and start sublimating those color charts to see what a difference it can make.

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Hi Angie, thanks for all your help. I just started doing sublimation and I just got a cute bitmoji to print for Christmas. It shows my face/avatar and the only white is on the eyes. I will like to use a Christmas color shirt different than white. Do you have any suggestion to make my printer print white color in cream or vanilla, at least to show a closest color to white? or any other solution

I just discovered my Epson printer is also a sublimination printer. I bought it a month or so ago and did not know that it could also be sublimination so I already used the ink it came with. I have printed out a few things on paper so can I still use the ink it came with. Mine is Epson ET-2850 ecotank.

I am just starting out i bought an eco tank epson 2600 i put hiipoo sublimation ink in it and am using the paper from them as well . I have a 15/15 heat press . when pressing on Gildan tee shirt i have it set to 400 for 60 seconds. It keeps coming out light. Any help would be appreciated.

I print from Photoshop. The other day I started printing on license plates and the design has a black background with red text. After printing it on the sublimation paper the black background comes up brown instead of black. Please help.

For over a decade, I have been sharing Cricut tutorials, sublimation crafts, and other creative ideas here as well as on my YouTube channel. My passions include teaching others and learning as many new things as possible about crafting technology.

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