Ricoh Ri 2000 User Manual page 70

Once the substrate is dry to the touch, its able to be printed on. If you plan on storing the
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substrates for later use, be sure that they are completely dry beforehand to prevent mildew.
• When first attempting the pre-treatment process test with a few shirts to determine how much to
spray. Too much pre-treatment can leave dark areas on the substrates. Too little pre-treatment can
make the prints look dull. The performance of white ink is highly dependent on proper application
of pre-treatment.
Poor Pre-Treatment Can Be Seen on the Left Side of this Image and is shown to be muddled, gray and
not as solid as the nose of the leopard (green arrow)
We recommend image armor ultra as pretreatment. Using image armor ultra will allow you to fully
utilize the speed of the Ri 2000 as it will "Crash" the white ink fast enough to be receptive to the color
ink as the Ri 2000 prints white and color ink in one pass. Other pretreats or too much pretreat may
cause the white ink to pool which will then require a wait time in- between the white and color layers.
(How to add a wait time is explained in "options")
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