How does the Mimaki DTG printer achieve this? Does it require a special adapter?
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I do not have this printer, but most likely the shirts were just layed accross the platten. A jig would be helpfull in this case and render a "crisper" print and also make production a lot faster. The print area is a large rectangle, so the shirt must be supported within this area and made to be a flat and level as possible.
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Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
Tubelite is the distributor for this and the Anajet in my area. When I met with the reps over there they only had bad things to say about the Mimaki. They also mentioned that Mimaki was dropping support for this machine.
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
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Originally Posted by zoom_monster
I do not have this printer, but most likely the shirts were just layed accross the platten. A jig would be helpfull in this case and render a "crisper" print and also make production a lot faster. The print area is a large rectangle, so the shirt must be supported within this area and made to be a flat and level as possible.
That makes sense. But I would assume that you'd have to clean up platen after every "borderless" print. From my experience of borderless printing, there's a bit of ink leakage outside of the media.
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Originally Posted by RandomFuture
Tubelite is the distributor for this and the Anajet in my area. When I met with the reps over there they only had bad things to say about the Mimaki. They also mentioned that Mimaki was dropping support for this machine.
I see. It would be nice to see a next-gen DTG printer that has 360 degree print coverage freedom. I guess that's still a few years down the road.
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
I have this printer - you have a 16x24 inch printbed, so any mechanism you can come up with (I use a lot of custom cut melamine, but I've also used cardboard) for making custom platens will work. There is also five inches of vertical travel, and head height can be adjusted to the 0.1mm. Don't know anything about support being dropped, my tech is always just a phone call away, has assisted me many times. I will say that the support from Mimaki itself is lacking.
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
I have done the press-twice method. it works okay on lights, but if you're doing a big discharge print, you can see the overlap. I solved the problem by picking up a 16x24 heat press. I found mine on ebay, it's not a major american manufacturer, but I've been very happy with it. In fact, I now use it instead of my 16x20 phoenix phire most of the time. it was also about a third of the cost of the phoenix.
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
Mimaki has a rather large bed and print area 16.5 x 24 inch as already mentioned. I am probably the largest single dealer in the US for this printer as it is the only Mimaki I sell. I have a lot of experience with these printers and as far as I know and I spoke to Mimaki yesterday they are not dropping this line of printer. As a matter of fact they are still working on making the best white printing out there. They could have released white ink printing just like everybody else but they are still working on using water based white ink with discharge fluid.
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage?
Steve,
do you have any idea of how this system might be implemented? Any chance of a retrofit for current owners? Would the discharge cartridges be replaced by this hybrid white? I could also envision using the empty slot in the slider assembly to house another printhead, reroute the plumbing a bit, maybe give up one of the wash or discharge cartridges? Do you have any inkling??
How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage? 
Re: How does the GP604D achieve this type of print coverage? 
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