Congratulations on your first cool sticker! What was the blue light inside the printer? Was that to help cure the ink like a UV light or was it for the cutting blade optical sensor for tracing around the image? Hopefully that tri-color single ink cartridge design doesn't come back to bite you in the wallet. That type of 3-color inkjet printer is seriously old news. The best inkjet printers have one cartridge for each color. Which simply means when you run out of one color you don't have to chuck the two other colors in the trash!
@craftydc
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I am not sure what the blue light is, I think it is more just the light for the cutter to sense the image, but I'm really not sure. iColor has pigment ink and dye ink, I currently have a dye ink in the machine, I am still on the same ink that it came with and have done 132 prints on it, and the replacement cost is only $79 so far I haven't ran out of any ink, and I am at 80% usage. I also own a Epson inkjet, it uses individual inks, and cost quite some $$ to keep them replaced and heads clean, and I also own 2 Sawgrass sublimation printers, and I own a laser HP, I have used the epson inkjet for stickers, and the HP for stickers. The epson with its individual inks cost the most so far, it eats ink up, and you HAVE to make sure to print at least every few days, or it dries in the tubes fast :( and then you waste a TON of ink cleaning heads. The 3-color with the icolor has the ink head built in so no needing to clean the heads all the time, so again money saving. The HP is nice, as it is laser, however its a bit more work to run the stickers thru the silhouette machine or cricut. SO far this machine, I am VERY happy with, I use it strictly for stickers, as I was going to do the magnet, but I am not advertising them at the moment. I would recommend this machine over any of the other ones, the 3-color inkjet with how it processes the ink is very cost savings due to not having to clean the heads and waste the ink all the time.
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