I am new to making t-shirts and currently have money to invest but for the past several weeks I have done nothing but research and failed to come up with an answer to what I need to do what I want to do. I keep landing on
DTG printers as the best solution to what I want to do, however, I keep reading about heat transfers and it sounds like they can accomplish what I would like to accomplish but I keep finding dead ends in the methods I am looking into. So, what I really want to know is... what method or items can accomplish the following criteria?
(Sorry, I know this is probably answered piece by piece in other posts but I have looked through this forum for weeks and have come up with nothing but bits and pieces so any help would be greatly appreciated.)
I am looking to produce the following on t-shirts and possibly other garments.
*High Quality Images
*Multi Color Images which include shading
*Print on dark colored shirts, including Black
*Good wash results that doesnt include cracking after a few washes
*The less texture the better, but I do understand there will probably be some texture
*Little to no backround (I have been reading there is cutting involved with some heat transfer methods, the problem is some images are nearly impossible to cut to the edges)
(Quality is more important than cost)
I have read about dye sublimation which looked great until I found out it was for white or light colors only. I have heard and read that certain heat transfers have problems cracking. I was looking into "WOW" which is new and am still waiting on a call back to see if they can answer my questions. So with all that said, any advice on what I may be looking at? Can anything in the heat transfer arena do this? Would a
DTG printer be my best bet?
Much thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to help me out!
What can do this? 
