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HUNTY · October 11th, 2009

Screen print Vs DTG

Pro's & con's for both please people. Include the obvious ones as its all great information for someone that doesn't know.

Titchimp · October 11th, 2009

They are aimed a two very different markets.

Screen printing has a low start-up cost, and is a cheap way of printing high quantities of t shirts.

DTG has a high start-up cost, offers a viable way to print low quantities onto shirts but is pretty expensive to do a large run.

TVS · October 12th, 2009

I could`nt agree more with what Titchimp has said, other than screen is a lot more messy compared to DTG

bryan.d · October 16th, 2009

the quailty you get from screen printing cant be beatin.
also any dtg prints you do have to be heat pressed after you print,
i think you would be better off comparing sublimation to screen printing.
both are have a better finish compared to the dtg

ryan_v · October 16th, 2009

Whats sublimination? Were abouts do yous get your equipment from here in the UK for screen printing?

Titchimp · October 17th, 2009

Personally i wouldn't even bother with sublimation on t shirts, without the ability to print on dark t shirts you are very limited in what you can do, that and the fact the t shirts need to have a high polyester content.

kustomtees · October 17th, 2009

We screenprint, dtg and have sublimation facility. Personally, I don't bother with sublimation for t-shirts as you can't use 100% cotton and dtg gives just as good finish with a soft feel.
Both screen and dtg have their pros and cons, the main factors being price, turnaround time, low or high volume etc.
I wouldn't put 250 t-shirts with a 3 colour print on the dtg, our automatic screenprinter will do these far more cost effectively, on the other hand I did a job this morning that was 2 colours front and back, quantity 10 on white shirts and it took about 1/2 hour on the dtg. It would take that just to output the film and make the screens to do a screen print and then possibly have to mix an ink on top of that before we even put ink on cloth.
As it was an urgent job that came in this morning we were able to charge £12 per shirt, after t-shirt and ink costs the net profit was about £100.
We also send out dtg shirts through a dryer rather than heat press.

Mark

Invent Clothing · 3 Days Ago

hi,

i agree there are both pros and cons with DTG and screen printing, we also do both, personally i prefer DTG as it is a lot easier to price and a customer who doesnt understand how the shirts are printed. DTG is a lot easier to explain, having said that if the customer would like a large run screen printing is the only way to go.

i also think DTG is the future as soon as someone develops a machine fast enough it will start to take over.

i wouldnt compare sublimation to DTG printing, we also have the setup for that but dont use it as DTG has far more flexibilty and in my opnion produces a better print.

there are a quite a few people who dont rate DTG printing but that i think is due to people not doing it right, you have to know what your doing and use the right ink or you could produce not very good prints.

Invent Clothing · 3 Days Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryan.d


	the quailty you get from screen printing cant be beatin. also any dtg prints you do have to be heat pressed after you print, i think you would be better off comparing sublimation to screen printing. both are have a better finish compared to the dtg

in what way is the finish on sublimation and screen print better that DTG other than the white is a little brighter on a screen print.

also you could not do a true gradient on a dark shirt or use lots of colours without using DTG

i would say the texture on dark shirts is more preferable than screen printing. also what is the issue with heatpressing the t-shirts, you have to send screen prints through a dryer and you could send DTG prints through a dryer.

kustomtees · 3 Days Ago

We put our DTG printed shirts through the dryer, personally I prefer the shirts without the rectangular press mark off a heatpress.

Invent - from your site I get the impression you have a white ink machine, would be useful to have a chat if you can spare some time.

Mark

Invent Clothing · 2 Days Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by kustomtees


	We put our DTG printed shirts through the dryer, personally I prefer the shirts without the rectangular press mark off a heatpress. Invent - from your site I get the impression you have a white ink machine, would be useful to have a chat if you can spare some time. Mark

I dont like the heat press mark ethier

Ive pm you my details

cheers

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