October 9th, 2009
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| Forum Member T-Shirt Apprentice
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|  Why I Bought a Brother?
I have received emails from quite a few people wanting to ask about my Brother GT 541 purchase. Since most of the emails have come from my original post on this forum I thought I would answer the most asked question here so I don’t have to respond to fifty or more emails. - Brother gave me $5,000 trade in value for my old broken down tjet printer. The Brother printer was only $15,000 after this trade credit.
- Brother is a real production printer. I run a professional business and I need a professional printer. I have had enough of these Epson retrofits to last the rest of my days.
- I don’t care about white ink any more. The Epson based t-shirt printers are too slow. I can’t make a profit on printing 5 shirts an hour and I am being generous at saying they can print 5 an hour. Where I live people wont pay $25 dollars for a printed shirt, and that is what I would have to charge to at least break even after paying employees and overhead. Most of my customers order white or light colored shirts for digital printing. The few that want dark shirts I can print with white transfer paper using my inkjet printer.
- Brother is a large company and has the money to support their product. Unlike the previous company that I bought from.
- A work of advice. Do what I did before you buy a printer. Go to the dealer or office of the printer manufacturer and print a job. Not one shirt but 20 or more. Just like you would do in your shop. If they don’t let you it means they have something to hide. I printed a job that took hours on my old printer in less than 45 minutes on the Brother. None of the other printers I tested could print the same job in double the time.
- Thanks for all the emails and advise from everyone maybe I will post again after we get through this busy time.
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