TshirtGuru

How many of you screen printers also have a DTG at their shop? If so, which one do you have? Is it a big helper or a dust collector? How many shirts are you selling on average per month with your DTG with your screen printing company?

 

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Koscarcbiz

An associate of mine purchased a DTG before I met him. I did alot of research on them. And overall they suck. DTG's don't seem to be beneficial equipment to have. The inks are expensive printing is tedious and not clean as a designer would like. He spent nearly 20k on his and needless to say it hasn't paid for itself 12 months later. That really sucks.

 

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MichaelM

I just got a DTG printer and it's great. I have been getting a lot of orders. I just completed an order for 300 shirts. This order had prints on the front, back and the client wanted a tag printed in the shirt, I completed it in less then one day.

I do not screen print at all. My DTG printer is a Kodi Jet.

 

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Uncle John

Wow, 900 shirts (print locations) in 1 day, that's a lot. We have an Anajet. Its a tool that adds to the screen printing not a replacement. We use it for small orders with lots of colors. We have also screen printed the backs and DTG the photo fronts. We are a contract printer so its hard to say how many DTG we print in a month we have only had it about 6 months but it paying its way. Henry beare in mind our company has been in business 25 years and has an established customer base, I wouldn't want to count only on the DTG to pay the bills at least for this shop. Hope this helps, John

 

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MichaelM

That does help thanks Uncle John

 

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out da box

Nice addition to screen printing, but very expensive. We have a flexi-jet. Too early to tell yet, I don't do too many t-shirts in winter. We'll see what happens in the summer. I don't see how a dtg only shop can pay the bills- but everybody's situation is different.
I would trade 2 dtg machines for a versacamm.

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TshirtGuru

Thanks for the replies guys.

I am looking at a refurbed one right now. I guess it can't replace screen printing, but I'd like it for small runs and runs with lots of colors (simulated process type printing). BUT, one thing I figured is that I need to sell a lot of one off tees to make a return on the investment. I have a lot to handle as is, adding this might hurt us more then help.

 

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MichaelM

Quote: Originally Posted by MichaelM I just got a DTG printer and it's great. I have been getting a lot of orders. I just completed an order for 300 shirts. This order had prints on the front, back and the client wanted a tag printed in the shirt, I completed it in less then one day. I do not screen print at all. My DTG printer is a Kodi Jet.

sorry for the typo that was supposed to be 30 not 300. so that would be 90 seperate prints.

 

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