Discuss the various aspects of direct to garment printing. DTG printers include Brother, T-Jet, Flexi-Jet, DTG Kiosk, Kornit, Mimaki, Tex-Jet and others! Discuss and learn about this up and coming printing technology.
take a typical t-shirt with say an A4 print of say an exapmle image sucha as:
if you were to print this im assuming you would need it full size (obviously) but what minimum resolution would you need it to be?
reason im asking is that alot of designers take images from stock image sites on the web, now these are gona be 72 res is this going to be to low? im just thinking this is something most designers wont think of (or really have access to anything higher as most graphic designers take nearly everything from stock sites and very few if none have access to high res image versions).
the reason is pretty much EVERY design i would get for this the designer would in someway have taken it from the web somewhere and the chances of them having access to the the raw image file (high res) is very slim.
is there anyway round this? i tried taking a image from the web and upping the resolution in photoshop this looks ****.
Step up your resolution in small steps as opposed to all at once. This helps somewhat, however, the old saying goes - what do you get when you polish a t*rd? answer - a shiny t*rd!
is there any other way of getting round this?
would be a very crude method but what about photographing the original image.
i can see this being a problem as i've said EVERY designer that's gona hand some work for printing is going to have taken images from a stock site. the reason i reckon dtg has the potential so much is from reproducing images i.e photography, and most of this is going to be taken from the web.
72dpi will pixelate, it can look low quality, if you are on coarse material you may not notice it unless close up.
You could try to halftone the image, or use art filters to disguise low resolution and (possibly) copyright infringement.
If the information is not there to make for a clear graphic, it is not there. Anything that makes it "better" is simply going to be an educated guess. So the answer is basically no.
If you are getting 72 dpi graphics then they are most likely not coming from the original artist/owner of the image. It is most likley that these images would be protected by copyright laws anyway. It could be saving you from litigation.
If the information is not there to make for a clear graphic, it is not there. Anything that makes it "better" is simply going to be an educated guess. So the answer is basically no.
Depends on what you're doing.
Fractal based scaling software is the bomb when it comes to scaling.
If you have only used photoshop and it's limited but great scalers, what you just said is true, if you work with the scaling apps I mention on the other post you would see a tremendous difference.
resolution? image size requirments? 
