I am looking at purchasing a DTG printer and have reworked my budget and focus to the Epson F2100. What are some of your experiences with this printer as far as setup, maintenance to printing. Can I see some samples of more complex designs you've printed with the F2100.
It's the best printer you can buy as a beginner... BUT:
1. keep your expectations low... DTG is not as easy as it looks.
2. Do the math first. Will you be able to sell enough for ROI in reasonable time?
We have been printing DTG for over 8 years. We are on our 3rd DTG printer, an Epson F2100. Overall we are very happy with the minimal maintenance, print quality and speed of this machine. We run our printer 7 days a week and had over 100,000 prints on our F2000 that we ran for 3 years. As Previously posted, the key is knowing your costs and to charge prices accordingly. There is a learning curve, particularly in the art of pretreating but you will have that with any DTG printer. The biggest thing to pay attention to cost wise is the price of the inks. Epson ink is expensive and the printer uses a lot. When we bought our fist F2000 we had to really look hard at the numbers to see if the low maintenance, speed and quality were worth the higher cost of ink. We determined that it was and we are not regretting our decision.
I recently went to a trade show, I watched a Brother GTX print a black shirt in 45 seconds, i then went to the Epson stand, not sure what model but it was almost the same price as the Brother, it took over 5 minutes to print a similiar print. I took a shirt home printed on the Brother & have now washed it 30 times with no problems. It seems to me that Epsons are way too slow to make any money.
I've had a good experience with my F2100. It hasn't been used a ton but I love the flexibility to do multiple designs in one session without the hassle of traditional screenprinting.
There are some limitations in color/ink texture vs. screenprinting but for smaller runs/highly customized designs (names, numbers etc.) it is highly effective.
Yes, I've been a member for 11 years and this is my first post
Printing has always been a side hustle for me because I enjoy the creative aspects. It was quite an investment and the main reason I did it was as an "insurance policy" because my real job was looking like it might end.
Of course as soon as I purchased it the other job turned around and has kept me super busy ever since.
It's all original, I've done the cleaning/maintenance but idk what model exactly it is...whatever they were selling in Sept of 18.
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