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.
I don't necessarily need to print a large image, but what about if what I need to print on is a large garment, I'm talking full body like say a jumpsuit, robe, etc. What DTG printers have platens that can hold larger garments like that?
Since the DTG Bullet can do beach towels I would guess it could do it, but at 4x or 5x the cost of the kiosk, do I really need it, especially if I don't anticipate high volume initially.
I printed on a 6XL once using my Flexi, I jut put my two platens together and turned the design 90 degrees which gave me a 40" x 15" print area. Now that was one Big Shirt
Dan
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The 12 x 12 should be No Problem the 18 x 18 would definitely need a large format printer, and all of the printers that I have seen have plenty of room to tuck the extra material out of the print path. Dan
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The Bullet has an image area of 23.5" x 60" - the largest of any on the market (to my knowledge) - EXCEPT the Xpress which has an image area of 44" x 100". Is that big enough???
The T-Jet Jumbo 2 Printer can print up to 24 inches x 50 inches. Jamie at JM Clothing (www.jmclothing.com) runs one and is a frequent poster on this forum so I'm sure he'd be willing to give you his experience with the Jumbo 2.
I printed large garments on a flexi-jet L model and all we did was just tuck the sides of the garment under the printing platten, worked fine.
All-American, the main distributor of Flexis is working on a new machine called BIG BLUE that has a much wider printing base
DON- who do you know who has those machines in the North East, closer to jersey the better, because I have need to use one for production of several hundred shirts very soon
I have no familiarity with the Bullet machine but I will definetly be reaching out to jmclothing
Generally the folks who buy these machines keep them pretty busy or they are in a non-t-shirt shop (like beach towels or bandanas) and they do not do contract work. If you are looking for oversize printing you would probably need to have custom shirt boards made as well.
shame for that, I'd put money up to have the platten made cost of business bottom line works gotta get done, seems kind of awkward all these suppliers say how great the machine is and how fast production is and then don't wanna use the machine for such, like how do recoup a machine jyay costs 20000 by not doing production?
Last edited by JJfromJersey; April 21st, 2008 at 06:18 AM.
DTG Printer for Large Garments 
