Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the R1800 Hybrid Dual Decoration System with SubliJet IQ™ and ChromaBlast digital transfer inks. This system for the EPSON Stylus Photo R1800 is the latest advancement from Sawgrass Technologies, Inc., a leader in the development of digitally driven color transfer technologies and related products.

Your R1800 Hybrid Dual Decoration System includes: SubliJet IQ™ inks, ChromaBlast digital transfer inks, the QuickConnect II™ ink delivery system, and PowerDriver IQ color matching software. This revolutionary, comprehensive system takes sublimation and cotton decoration to the professional level, allowing users to create perfect transfers with minimal effort. The comprehensive CMYK in configuration provides a wide color gamut, creates noticeably smoother gradient transitions, captures finer detail and adds color depth.

With this system, your printed images can be transferred onto any product designed to accept sublimation dyes including: ceramic, metal, tiles, mylar, polyester fabric, performance wear, UniSub®, and Hanes Soft L’Ink® T-shirts, resulting in an attractive, durable product. This system Your imagination is the limit for producing brilliant, near photo-quality images on caps, clipboards, clocks, mugs, mousepads, plaques, puzzles, synthetic T-shirts, and more. SubliJet IQ™ is ideal for markets that personalize, customize or create short-run output.

The ChromaBlast Driver™ is user-friendly software that enables you to maximize output quality and quantity for decorating to cotton surfaces. Bundled with the SubliJet IQ driver, this hybrid solution gives the user a powerful combination of customized decorations options.

This document contains information for using SubliJet IQ™ and ChromaBlast digital transfer inks and helpful tips are also provided for getting the best results from your transfers. The information provided pertains only to the use of SubliJet IQ™ and ChromaBlastTM in your EPSON Stylus R1800 printer. If you have questions about the operation of your EPSON printer, refer to the EPSON Stylus Photo R800 &/or R1800 Printer User’s Guide.

Technical support is available from your Authorized SubliJet reseller or directly from Sawgrass Technologies, Inc. See the section entitled Technical Support for additional information.

We at Sawgrass strive to provide you with the tools to make the sublimation process easy to learn and simple to master. We hope you will find that the tools we have developed will make your years in the sublimation and cotton decoration business fun and profitable. Please feel free to contact us with your feedback about our products. For additional information on our other products, visit our web site at www.sawgrassink.com.

Thank you and enjoy your R1800 Hybrid Dual Decoration system

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