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.
As most of you know, I've been looking for a contract DTG printer and received a lot of interest in helping with my ecommerce site printing. Prices were competitive.
Question, one vendor suggested double passing stating that single passing is dull in comparison. Also, I'm receiving comments about other vendors presses not being as good or high a resolution. Quality is of most importance to me. I'll be printing dark and light shirts.
The vendors state they use Brother GT, FlexiJet, DTG, TJet. Can someone educate me on which machine of the above produces the best results.
There is going to be a good bit of bias to the answers to this question. I would suggest that the best way is to actually get to a major show and see all of the major printers in action at one place. SGIA is coming up in a few weeks in New Orleans and most of the major direct to garment players will be there. The show dates are October 7-9. As an FYI - T-Jet is no longer manufactured and the Flexi is not being distributed by anyone at this time as far as I am aware of.
One thing to bear in mind is most of the modern machines will be 4880 based and will all have the same print capability. The quality of the rip and experience of the user will be the two key points of the quality of print you receive.
Secondly the ink they use is also a key factor in washing durability. Some of the new inks available are far better and will last much longer.
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IGS-UK Colin Marsh http://www.igs-uk.co.uk
UK Dealers for the new Rainbow-Printer & StayBright4 Professional Textile Ink.
One thing to bear in mind is most of the modern machines will be 4880 based and will all have the same print capability
Kind of a half truth here. All - larger - direct to garment printers will most likely be 4880 based. However, the smaller format (13") machines are faster than the 4880 based machines, especially on one-offs. There are some 4880 machines out there that use a RIP software that has a print mode that does not exist in the rest of the softwares. This RIP will allow for 360ish print speeds at 720ish ink saturations - effectively doubling the color layer printing at only a small quality sacrifice.
I think you may have already answered your own question. Trying to find this machine you only get one hit in Google. There is no information about anything on the machine there other than basic print size - which is roughly A4 or letter size. I cannot tell you good or bad about the machine, as there is no data to go on. If there is no data to go on, then it would be a gamble to purchase one.
Is there a difference in the printer? 
