Its good to see a good dialogue going in the forum...I especially appreciate hearing from Printzilla (Marc)....I respect and usually agree with most of what he says...He is one of the few people who had USSPI's white ink before I got mine, not much before but needless to say those of us who took the original plunge into printing "The holy grail" in 2005 are pioneers....I think we originally thought that we would be able to print large runs of black/dark shirts for our customers with only minimum extra effort...well....that is clearly not the case with the current
method used by DTGs....Printing with white was trial and error in the beginning and 2 years later it is still evolving....Fortunately my business model is strictly
1-off retail and low run wholesale.....I print mostly on black/dark shirts and have printed well over 10,000 shirts since I started. A business model that tries to use a digital garment printer to compete with screen printing is doomed to failure..
I usually turn down most of the high volume low profit jobs, even on light shirts
...it just is not what I do....I am strictly a digital printer and offer my customer full color and photographic prints in low quantities...even one....on any color shirt including black....This is a lucrative niche that most screeners wont touch...I suggest that anyone buying a
DTG machine consider that their business model is much more important then which brand machine they buy.