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.
We have been told about using a heat conveyor for heat setting our prints. Im wondering if this would work. (it is currently being used in a screen printing shop)
Right now, we print on the Brother, then press at 360 for 30 sec.
Im wondering if a heat conveyor would do the same thing...dry it and set it into the material the way the heat press would. My thoughts are...Im not drying ink onto a shirt, Im setting ink absorbed into material. kwim?
I understand the concept, but Im not sure how the conveyor will work. Will it still have the same wash-ability as the pressed image?
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Re: Using a heat conveyor for a DTG printer?
Well.... I would guess you want to evaporate the moisture from the ink so it would work. Justin uses one so I suppose it works. You only need the buck$ and the space.
Is there a reason you want to go to a conveyor instead of staying with heatpressing?
I can tell you that we have been using a tunnel dryer for quite a while now. There are many that have been doing it for quite a while too but just do not report it to the internet.
its just a generic 5ft 1800 watt conveyor dryer. I adjust the belt so that it spends just over 1 min under the heat element. I use it on bigger orders to keep a good flow going and only for white shirts as I can't slow down the belt enough to keep a dark shirt under the heat long enough on my small dryer.
Using a heat conveyor for a DTG printer? 
