 Hey guys, this is Kevin. Today I'm going to show you step-by-step how to convert Epson Eco tank from regular ink to sublimation ink. You can see it already have original Epson ink in it and today we're going to substitute a regular ink with a sublimation ink. Here's what we need. We need a regular school driver. It's a Philip number two school driver, pretty popular so I bet you will have one at home. And then you need a really sharp knife or like a box cutter or like a razor blade. And then you need a really fast syringe. You can have a 10 mil syringe but I suggest 50 mil. I'm going to put the link to the syringe to the link above so if you need one you can get from there. If you have your old used Eco tank bottle don't throw it away just save it but however if you don't have it don't worry it's not critical. I'll show you to refill with and without the original bottle and of course you'll need the ink. I'm going to put a link to the sublimation ink above and of course pair of gloves and some paper towel and also you'll need a big jar of either beaker or something to catch the with the ink. Open the printer you're going to find that the printer is locked. So move the printer to the right and then turn this wheel counter clockwise. Do it three times and then you can free the printer. We're going to suck ink out of the printer's damper. Every time we suck ink we need to make sure that those levers are open. The dampers are pretty easy to remove. Just pull the tab in and lift it up. Now we need to modify our syringe a little bit and then you can do with this with a 10 mil or 50 mil it doesn't matter. Just use a knife just cut a little piece out from the from the tip. We're going to insert this tip into the damper and this tip going to push the seal into the damper. So we don't want the tip to be completely flat. It doesn't matter how little it is as long as it is not perfect flat. That's fine and also don't cut it too much because later on we're going to attach syringe to it. Now I'm going to push the syringe in and start sucking. The ink is going to flow from the tank to the tube then to the damper and then suck into the syringe and then we discard the ink. We're going to put the damper on a piece of paper so it won't contaminate others. Now we're going to add the ink to the black. Let's take a closer look of the ink intake. The ink intake is divided two parts in the middle. I found out it's easier to just stick a needle and use the upper part to refill. Oh I forgot before you suck the ink into the syringe make sure that you shake the bottle 10 times before you use the ink. After you fill out the black and you're going to suck the ink from the damper again just make sure the damper the new ink replaced the old ink in the black and before you insert it make sure you take out the yellow out first then you insert a black one. Do the same thing for the yellow one suck off the old ink add a sublimation ink to the tank then draw ink from the damper until the damper is full of the new ink and repeat the same thing for a magenta. Get the ink out add ink to the tank and the prime. Just show you if you see the old ink bottle for example I got the bottle from magenta not the bottle of sand and you can just pour the ink into the bottle and they use the bottle to refill it. People sell the empty unused bottle on eBay I think it's like a $28 something a set. However if you just need a bottle you can get a dirty bottle from us sometimes if we have like things we can throw away recycle you can you can see if we have them. Okay you can go to bchtechnologies.com and go to accessories. I can find it just just typing the word a dirty bottle and there it is. So you get four empty scrap bottles exactly like the new bottles you get from eBay but you have to wash it. Just text the word dirty to this number and I'll text you back with the link to the bottles. Those bottles face most of the new Epson EcoTanks 502 522 with onion problem and most of you have problem to put this piece back. If you don't put this piece back correctly it's going to make a lot of noises. First tuck those tubes in make sure they stay flat. Don't pay attention to this hole it's kind of useless. We're gonna focus on this hole and this hole. You're gonna feel a tap there so push the hole into the tap and also do the same to the front one. When the two of them are in the hole you can slide the clear tape to your left and make sure it's secured in there. See this is how it's done. Most of you don't have problem with the conversion. Your problem is what to do after the conversion so you should go to maintenance and go to head cleaning. I just do one head cleaning first. At the end it's gonna ask you if you want to print a nozzle check and say yes. You can see on the top of the nozzle the black nuzzles and something is screwy and on the bottom too so we need to do another cleaning. It's gonna ask you do you have a missing lines and say yes and then hit this button to continue cleaning. Do now start using the printer unless until you get a perfect nozzle check. Do up to six cleanings or till you get a good nozzle check and also every third cleaning after it's done you go back to home then then re-select a maintenance and the printer will not think you have a better printhead. Okay the second cleaning was perfect but we're not done yet. I'm going to print a 10 copies of some dark image so we can use up the old ink inside the printhead. You can see at the beginning was okay and we see the black colors and after four or five pages the black color is completely gone and when we print a nozzle check you can see the nozzle check is horrible. Don't panic this is a good thing and this means the old ink is completely gone so we'll go back to do the cleaning again. Do it until it's perfect. Every three times don't forget to go back to the home manual then calm down re-select the hot cleaning and you should do total of six times the first day with 12 hours then do six more times. I'm going to use this image that my friend sent. Here's what she said in the email. She said it's fifth day of war and it's awful. Russians bomb us all day all night. They bomb houses, kindergartens, we're in the basement and go out only for 10 to 20 minutes a day to take everything from house or take a shower. I cannot stop crying. I hope to get back to work as soon as possible. I know US and Europe support us so we select a file print then we'll go to print setting and here quality which will set to high and then go to the second tab go to more options and deselect high speed and click mirror image so if it's mirror you don't have to flip the image on in the Photoshop. I said print. Sublimation paper gonna have a coded side and the print side. If you paper is not marked the like salmon or blue color side is not coded side. You should print on the white side. When you print a sublimation the color is really dull. It's weird as the color is totally off so do not judge the color by how it prints. The reason is the color need to be heat transformed to show the true color. You can see the color is not bright and if you see the black print the black should have a some of the look like a brownish black not a real pure black. Because our print have lots of blacks I'm going to use let it be the higher temperature. When you print a pure black if you do not supplement temperature is not high enough the turnout will be brownish. However if you heat it for too long it's also going to be brownish so you have to find the happy medium in the middle to make a pure black. So I select a higher temperature and let it be shorter time. For the first press I need to heat up the form on the bottom so I without put anything on and I just run or empty run so the plate will heat up the bottom. Now the bottom is heat up I will just put the fabric on the on the platform and do a quick two three seconds quick press. What this does is it remove all the wrinkles. Now it's time to add the paper and do it for real. Okay let's see this is the reason that you need check for wrinkles before you press. A different color going to supplement at different rate. So your goal is find the temperature and time combination that have all the colors sublimated. Also if you sublimate it too long all the temperature is too high you're going to burn some color off. Another thing is different material going to behave differently under different angle of light so you'll have to look at your print at all angles and there's some cases that just it's just impossible to get everything right. For example this one I ever says on the black you can see the black is spot on and to be to achieve that I did a burn off some of the magenta. Okay I hope you enjoyed this video visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Greensboro North Carolina. Cheers!