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Buttsilly22 · October 5th, 2009

Can direct to garment printing be used if you are looking for a high quality look and feel or does it feel cheap and easily crack after washes and wears?? With my idea screenprinting will not work so I need another way of printing that can still make the shirt look and feel like a high quality product...any ideas?

SewMuchMore · October 5th, 2009

I can only speak about the Brother 541 DTG printer since that is what I own and have done thousands of shirts with it. There is absolutley no cracking at all, the garment has a very soft hand. The Brother is what LL Bean uses and I'd say their quality standards are pretty tough. there might be some issues with the DTG's that use the white base ink, but someone else would have to answer that one for you. I'm also confused as to who has been doing your screen printing that the ink is cracking and that it looks cheap. If you have a good screen printer then neither of those should be occuring. Screen printing is by far still the industry standard because it can out produce a direct to garment printer any day of the week. The DTG's are great and have allowed those of us who want full color without the expense of screen printing and minimums. Hope some of this helps.

Kathy Mac

Buttsilly22 · October 5th, 2009

Thanks for the info...My problem is not with a screenprinter, its that each of my shirts will have a different image. Unless you know of a quality screenprinter that will print singles?

zoom_monster · October 5th, 2009

If you understand screen printing, you'll get it why that's not sustainable and cost effective. DTG eliminates the set-up, separations of screen printing. DTG is also waterbased which means soft hand and no cracking. The only downside is that you're dealing with Cmyk instead of spot colors..... This is a benefit as well as you can get photographic effects that would be difficult in traditional screenprinting.

Ian

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