AB,
Good to see the pictures. Just so others know, the square sheets of fabric are made out of bamboo. It has a really nice feel to it.
The extra ink from the Brother printer is a result of the fabric either touching the printheat or some other part of the printer. This most likely happened since you were not putting a full shirt on the printer and it was hard to get the fabric to lay flat.
The pictures of the Joker are a print-cut application using a hybrid printer and the Roland GX-24 cutter. It is a pretty easy process to pick up. I believe that Josh from Imprintables has a video on this forum that goes over this process as well. The white fabric Joker was using ImageJet Lite II paper (light transfer paper) and the green fabric Joker was using ImageJet Dark II paper (dark / opaque transfer paper).
I am curious to see the results of the ChromaBlast wash test. I have heard some rumors about being able to remove the window by repressing or steaming it (putting water on the design and repress it). I tried it at the show and it did not work. Some people believe that the window will go away on white and light grey shirts only. I would be interested in seeing how the yellow ChromaBlast sample will look after the wash test.
Hopefully, you will be able to samples from the different
DTG companies on your fabric. If you can, you will probably want to know what process (i.e. pretreatment or no pretreatment) and settings they used so you can duplicate it if you decided to go down that path.
Hope you found the show valuable and worth while. Best wishes with your research.
Mark