phil9417

Hey, I'm looking for a DTG Printer right now. So far I have found a very cheap offer. The manufacturer is called Unique and the model is the UN-TS M03.

Does anyone know something about this Machine?
Here is a link from the company: t-shirt printer|t-shirt printing|t-shirt design|printing t-shirts|t-shirt print

By the way, what is the cheapest machine that I can get right now? It only has to print one shirt at a time...

Thanks!,

 

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charles95405

You don't list your location, but I would be wary of the machine since it comes from China and unless you are in their area, support, equipment and supplies...even the warranty might be up to expected standards. I would tread very softly on this one.

at the ISS show I saw a refurb dtg from Equipment Zone for uner 10K...A word of caution...sometimes when you buy cheap you get cheap which translates into cheap product

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DAGuide

After looking at the website that I can get to work, the biggest thing that stands out is they are pushing their own dye based inks. There have been previous companies that have tried to use a dye based inks for direct t-shirt printing and it did not work real well. The main dtg manufacturers all use a waterbased, pigment ink. It also seems that they are using a thermal print head instead of a piezo print head. I don't want to put down a company that is doing something outside-the-box, but you should do a little more research and get hands-on experience on something that is completely new or you could be the beta tester for a product that does not work.

Charles is correct about how important tech support is, but also don't discount training. Every dtg printer I have seen requires the use of preventative maintenance or you will experience downtime. Lack of preventative maintenance will not only hurt your profits, but can also cost you more money on replacement parts. One of the biggest mistakes people have done in the past is thinking these printers are going to work like their desktop printers. This is not the case.

Good luck with your research!

Mark

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duca

believe me. don't buy it. i have bought it. it's still working. but the thing is it's just a toy. they have modified Lexmark printer to be the t-shirt printer.

the pro is

1) it's a toy. it's good to play around with it.


the cons are

1) the ink they use is the same ink we use is the paper printing ink.

2) based on above statement, they use what they call "special coating" to pretreat before printing. the special printing is very similar to liquid glue (based on my opinion). the brightness of the image you print on garment, depends upon how much you put on the "special coating". regardless of how much I coated, after the first wash, half of image was gone.

3) it cannot print on dark garment.

4) they have automatic self-heating. but it doesn't work really well. sometimes it makes some spots burn.

hope it helps.

 

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