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.
Hi - I would LIKE to print some hockey jerseys. They're for a PLAY not for people to PLAY hockey in, so they don't have to be tough, just look good. Has anyone had any luck printing on Polyester? Thanks for your input.
no poly with these units and the water based inks. I have heard people have tried with the T-Jet inks but no real luck. We did it with our Flexi and had no luck either. for a play you could just to a heat transfer or cad cut vinyl depending on the complexity of what needs to be printed.
That is a pretty strong statement that I think most knowledgable dtg users will disagree with. Being able to print on synthetic fabrics has very little to do with the printer - it has everything to do with the chemistry (i.e. pretreat and ink). Here is a video that shows the inaccuracy in your statement.
There are 2 different ways the other DTG machines will print on poly. One is a specific poly ink (Anajet sells it) or the pretreat such as what Mark demonstrated that is sold to allow CMYK to adhere to Polyester. I believe that Kornit also claims to print poly.
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That is a pretty strong statement that I think most knowledgable dtg users will disagree with. Being able to print on synthetic fabrics has very little to do with the printer - it has everything to do with the chemistry (i.e. pretreat and ink). Here is a video that shows the inaccuracy in your statement.
Can you tell me what was sprayed on the garment, is that sold by brother or a 3rd party. i have a brother poly treatment but I thought it was only to be used with 50/50 or blends. Where can you purchase that spray and what is it called. Thanks for that video. I just got an epson for sublimation, maybe I won't need to open that now. Thanks again
This is a 3rd party pretreat fluid that is sold by a lot of the Brother distributors and a few other companies. It has been released under several names as the distributors like to put their own logo on it. But the primary website is www.dtgpretreat.com.
It is used to improve the fibrancy and washability on several types of items - including 100% polyester garments, blends (50/50), cotton garments, mousepads, coasters,...
I know this is an older post but do all the same principles still apply or is there something better now?
We have been doing research for 3 months now and have just purchased an Equipment Zone Refurbished fast T-jet 2 with a bagged ink system.... We went cheap so that we could get our feet in the door with this side of our business.
Ryan,
It's still a matter of ink, and more specifically white ink. Poly is just not receptive to waterbased inks and needs a coating. White ink because of it's tendancy to show the dye bleeding(sublimate) from the colors used in polyester.... is not adequate for an opaque print. If you are printing CMYK on white, you can get good results using a poly pretreat. I'm sure that people are working on it, but it will some time before this becomes a reality
You can print Dark Poly on the Kornit system, but I here that's not perfect either.
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This has been on going question.
Dark garment poly print: forget it. Unless junk quality and poor wash is welcome to your customer. Or you do not look for repeat business.
White or real light color fabric: use fast paper printer such as Richo or epson or some. Cheap than dtg ink and 10 times faster. You can decorate everywhere back sleeves, small big, 100 logos like race car driver. Do not make any sense who want to try with DTG. If anyone want to push this for no sensible reason just use sub CYMK x 2 on any Dtg. but why?
Do not try to carry refrigerator with you Mercedes use cheap uhaul truck.
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I know this is an older post but do all the same principles still apply or is there something better now?
We have been doing research for 3 months now and have just purchased an Equipment Zone Refurbished fast T-jet 2 with a bagged ink system.... We went cheap so that we could get our feet in the door with this side of our business.
Does anyone have any new input? Thanks
As noted before, there is a polyester pretreatment available for printing white or light colored 100% polyester shirts with CMYK inks. It does a very good job and allows you to use the very same inks you now use.
Work is proceeding on a process for printing white ink on dark 100% polyester goods. It's not there yet but I do see it coming down the road.
DTG printing on Polyester 
but why?
