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.
Can anyone tell me the difference between dye sublimation and direct to garment digital printing? I'm a bit confused as the images they produce seem rather similar.
Dye sub is for synthetic materials. The ink turns to a gas as it is heated and sublimates into the synthetic material. DTG works best on cotton. It is like an ink jet printer on steroids. Instead of printing on paper, it prints directly onto the T shirt The image will dull slightly as the synthetic content increases. Both get heat cured. Oscar
Do you have a source for 65% poly 35% cotton blended tshirts? I have bought sublimated shirts from target before with this blend content, with the label "Anthill Rockware." any ideas?
don't know if this is the correct thread to post this question or not..
what is the difference between watermation and dye sublimation?
also I am searching for a company that does the all over printing directly to the fabric, then creates the clothing. I have found here the link to inyourfaceapparel - but does anyone know if there are other companies that offer this exact same service?
I haven't seen any other companies besides inyourfaceapparel that do the all over printing.
There are a few printers that have the capabilities to do it, but you would need to do a google search for something like roller printing or roller screen printing to find companies that might have the right machine. I remember seeing one in Canada last time I searched.
Not sure of the difference between watermation and sublimation. I think they describe watermation on the inyourface site.
Sublimation requires specially treated fabrics. It also involves a printing to paper process (using specially reated sublimation paper) and then requires a heat application onto the frabric from th epaper.
Direct to garment printing means just that - the garment is inserted directly into a specifically engineered printer configuration and the ink jet prints directly to the garment. Fabrics should have no more than 50% synthetic composition with the other 50% being natural fabric such as cotton.
Such direct printing can even be done on colored shirts after appropriate pre treatment and after a white underbase is laid down first. Once all printing is completed, the used of a heat press us needed to "cure" the printing so that the results are color fast.
The "hand" (feel) of the printed garment is soft like the fabric.
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someone mentioned Vapor ware for me. I have used it...they are a polyester type material...and you can sublimate on it...but still can't do dark material
We are using Hanes Softlink white, for customers who want a quick print with Dye Sublimation (walks-ins). Vapor gets a little pricey. For colors, we direct them to our Direct-to-Garment.
My company sublimates fabric then manufactures it. What kind of orders are you interested in doing? Is it just a one time deal, or continuous high volume orders? We have t-shirt templates in adobe illustrator.
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don't know if this is the correct thread to post this question or not..
what is the difference between watermation and dye sublimation?
also I am searching for a company that does the all over printing directly to the fabric, then creates the clothing. I have found here the link to inyourfaceapparel - but does anyone know if there are other companies that offer this exact same service?
thanks.
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just got a dark shirt from zazzle, dtg. should dtg feel anything like dark transfer paper? the lettering looks like it was cut out rather than printed. the straight edges of an upper case E aren't uniform as they're wider at one end. I was under the impression that the finished product would feel like light transfer paper on a light shirt. the light transfer paper has no hand at all, so if it's printed directly on to the material should I be able to feel it at all? would appreciate reply to" ." Thanks in advance.
I was wondering if there are any advantages to printing via dye sublimation as opposed to direct printing? Is the print quality better? Will the image last longer? etc.
I have a design that is similar to a advertising poster and my printer recommended dye sublimation. Price wise, dye sub will be more costly mainly because Soft'Link tees are about $6 a piece. I have some basic white Gildan tees that I'd like to use instead, but my printer said the image will come out faded unless we use the special tees?
Doing sublimination the printer needs to print on poly garments. If you do dtg printing you can print on the cotton gildans as they are made to print on natural fabrics. Hope this helps. You should not have fading issues as long as the printing is done right with the dtg. Also with dye sub the same thing, as long as they print on poly it wont fade.
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Doing sublimination the printer needs to print on poly garments. If you do dtg printing you can print on the cotton gildans as they are made to print on natural fabrics. Hope this helps. You should not have fading issues as long as the printing is done right with the dtg. Also with dye sub the same thing, as long as they print on poly it wont fade.
The Gildans are not poly, so I guess they won't work for dye sublimation without the design looking faded, right?
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