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.
[quote=razers;572401.......There's no machine that prints correctly on black shirt?
[/quote] Most of these printers, can and do print well on darks.... but you have to understand the process and the problems so that you can make the best of the situation. The problem is how well people are prepaired for the challenges. You can get a good system, including printer, heatpress, pretreatment tools etc. for 20K or less
Ian
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I tried to print a South Park's image on black t-shirt, and sadly i can say the image quality is poor on certain situation.
For example skin tone, white, and light red of the toon image are the worst, i think because they have a white ink printed background.
Maybe the operator that print my shirt was unskilled, or the original ink was poor,
but the quality that now i see on my t-shirt is not enough for me.
You told me that i must understand the process and the problems so that i can make the best of the situation, but i can't prepare myself without spend 20k
I understand that everyone has his preference about printers, but maybe really exist a machine that can print on black better than other in my budget range.
Razers my suggestion to you would be go to a trade show with your own files and have the different manufactures print shirts for you. Then go home test and compare! What you need to realize is that printing white ink takes extra time to keep machine clean and you also must understand colormanagement!
I tried to print a South Park's image on black t-shirt, and sadly i can say the image quality is poor on certain situation.
For example skin tone, white, and light red of the toon image are the worst, i think because they have a white ink printed background.
Maybe the operator that print my shirt was unskilled, or the original ink was poor,
but the quality that now i see on my t-shirt is not enough for me.
You told me that i must understand the process and the problems so that i can make the best of the situation, but i can't prepare myself without spend 20k
I understand that everyone has his preference about printers, but maybe really exist a machine that can print on black better than other in my budget range.
Thanks
Part of the education you need is to understand CMYK. You say "South Park image" where did you get this image? If you got it from a web image, this could be a big reason the quality is bad. If you feed any process a file that has not be "produced" for that process, you very well may get garbage, either due to the resolution of the image or the fact that images that are designed for display need to be developed to print well. You can spend more than the $20K but if you do not have the graphic skill and knowlege, you will not get a better product.
The tech at a trade show may or may not have the skill to make your image that you bring in on disk sing for you, or because it's a show... not have the proper time to do it right. You can prepare yourself and in fact you are by asking questions here, but it will not happen overnight. I would get the graphic and business knowlege and translate that into the questions to ask when shopping for a machine. My point is that with the proper know-how, a person could do the same quality work using less expensive tools.
Ian
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Which DTG in 20k budget? 
Re: Which DTG in 20k budget? 
