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.
Sorry for the delay, but it has been crazy around here for the last two weeks.
I uncrated it yesterday. The crate was nicer than my first apartment. The only thing I did not like was that they used staples instead of screws, so that made it a bear to unpack. I understand that is being changed.
I played with it all day today, and so far I am very impressed. I treated and printed with different settings, speeds, etc.. I have done about 50 shirts so far, and as of yet no issues to report. It is built like a tank, and incredibly easy to use. You could train an employee in less than 10 minutes, including maintenance procedures.
My initial impression is that shirt quality still matters. I will say that so far on my preferred style of shirts, all I do is load the shirt, press the button, unload the shirt, heat press for 15 seconds and then print! No pre pressing, or rolling or brushing of the PT. It is really FAST!
I will have a complete review with videos up at dtgworkshop.com the first of next week for everyone to see.
After another day of use, I can say that i am still very pleased that I made the purchase. I have it dialed in to the settings that I like and it is running great.
The only issue is that the edges of the garment get more coverage than the middle, but it has proven to be a non factor in the 100+ shirts I have tested. I spoke with some other users, and they have not had any issue with the extra coverage either.
I am certainly using less PT than I was before, not to mention that the system has a reclaiming feature to capture and reuse the overspray.
I will have a better idea after a couple of weeks. I want to test the numbers over a longer period than just 2 days. I am not sure how much recycling the PT is going to help yet either.
One platen that does not seem to be changeable, but you just lay the shirt on top, so that should not matter. You can control the spray pattern to fit the size of the shirt, by lowering and raising the nozzle.
I got the legs, as it would take a decent size table to hold he unit, plus the legs have wheels, so it is easy to roll around if need be.
Hey Mark, I wonder if you could make like different size cutout templates with something like plexiglass, that you could lay over the garment for different sizes, so that the spray would only hit on the open area of the cutout. That I would think would probably work well for smaller size print areas and smaller garments. What do you think? Is there enough space above the platen to make that plausible? Thanks so much for your input on this machine mark, it really is great to see something out there and getting first hand feeb back on it.
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A stencil or cutout template would be a interesting idea. But I could imagine it getting dirty and sticky very quickly. Wouldn't want to be handling and cleaning it after every spray.
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