[Pictures of DTG Printed Garments] 1 year later before and after pictures
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[Pictures of DTG Printed Garments] 1 year later before and after pictures
Too many washes to count... That t-shirt was a favourite of my son. If i had to count I would say easily over 70 times its been washed but it would more than that.
The t-shirt is cracked, i will upload other t-shirts that are over 1 year old and been though the washing machine lots of time, if people are interested.
I remember when I first started printing I printed a Hulk Logan T-shirt and Monster Shane T-shirt for two of my kids and the picture pealed right off the t-shirt. That was when I was starting out.
I own The Kiosk 2. I just had it upgraded by installing the WIMS kit on it.
Its a huge difference now, what use to take me around 1 hour to get the machine in good working mode only takes me now 5mins to get it in great working mode.
I think to get long lasting images from your t-shirt comes down to the pre treatment and the type material your t-shirt is made from. I now print on AAA t-shirts which are 220GSM (adults) for kids I print on AAA t-shirts which are 205GSM those T-shirts I seem to get the best results from.
I remember when you posted those pics of the Hulk as your son I too have a bunch of shirts that have held up well over a long period of time. Its all in the pretreatment and curing I will try to find some of mine as well post pics. I know my husband has a ton so it should not be too hard to find them.
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Is there anything to help prevent cracking? Or is that just part of the life cycle?
I remember when I was a kid, we went to hawaii, and my mom bought me this hideous tie died shirt with a dolphin on it.. it was my favorite shirt.. Until the dolphin peeled off in chunks after one or two washes.. I remember how crushed I was lol
Annnyway, lol, I have a couple shirts purchased from retail that have cracked and I dont wear them anymore because of it, the feel that is.. I'd hate to have a customer not want to wear my shirt anymore..
thanks guys for taking a interest.... I'll try and answer everything in this one post....please excuse my typo errors......
I remember you sunnydayz, i based my choice of dtg machine on reading alot of your post messages and don-swf east messages. I'll be keen to see some of your before and after prints.
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Is there anything to help prevent cracking? Or is that just part of the life cycle?
I don't think you can prevent cracking. All my t-shirts including store brought ones do crack and peal over time. Some last longer than others.
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After so many washes may i ask what type of ink did you use .....That it last so long and look so good??
at the time of printing those tshirts i was using normal inks from dtgdigital. I now use the new bright inks from dtgdigital..
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I was a kid, we went to hawaii, and my mom bought me this hideous tie died shirt with a dolphin on it
my mother brought me a tshirt that was tie died dark purple and light purple from hawaii and i loved it..... had a tiki on it and like your one it pealed off within a few washes.... that was in the early 90s when i got my tshirt..
I noticed that a lot of place here in Australia are trying to pass laser transfer prints off as DTG prints and a lot of the laser transfer cracks and fades in one wash.
I've brought a few laser transfer t-shirts from two shops here in Sydney and if people are being told that they are DTG prints, I can understand why people would stay away from buying DTG printing.
Not saying that their not crap DTG printing out there, but there are a lot of places doing a lot non DTG printing and trying to pass it off as DTG printing.
What does that have to do with this post? Nothing really I thought I'll just add that bit of information.
Last edited by rangituhaha; August 20th, 2009 at 01:46 PM.
Kia Ora you from Christchurch? i think that were my dtg rep was from. thats when i was living in Wellington. I got my kiosk in December 2007 from Greg Barrett, nice guy too. Very helpful.
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I presume that you just pretreat with a normal sprayer and not with a pretreater, and you are doing it similary to the methods posted here?
I use a normal spy gun that i got with the printer. I just can't see how you can save money with a pretreater machine unless you are doing high volume printing. I was told for a pretreater machine you may be looking at $4000.00 Australian dollar.
Last edited by rangituhaha; August 21st, 2009 at 02:14 PM.
Kia Ora you from Christchurch? i think that were my dtg rep was from. thats when i was living in Wellington. I got my kiosk in December 2008 from Greg Barrett, nice guy too. Very helpful.
Kia Ora Rangituhaha,
Yep from the Mainland.
You are doing some really nice work, keep it going.
Yeah I know Greg very well. I just got my WIMS from him for the Flexi jet, hope to get back to some white ink printing and start making some money from it.
When I next see Greg I will past this thread on to him, he will be chuffed I am sure!
1 year later before and after pictures 
