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Help me understand these printing methods (Screen printing and DTG)

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I have several questions about Screen and DTG, since these appear to be the most popular. I've read the forums but it's not that clear to me.

1. Is Screen printing brighter than DTG on darks?

2. Does a screen printed shirt always have a layer of paint on it that a person can feel? Whereas a DTG printed shirt is basically textureless? I have some Diesel shirts that have no texture on it, yet I'm curious to know why they only use a couple of colors instead of taking advantage of the DTG range of millions of colors (if that's the method they used).

3. Can you name some companies that have relatively high fashion brands which use DTG instead of screen?

4. If a picture on a shirt has a lot of jagged edges, would that give problems to DTG or Screen?
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Uncle John
Re: Help me understand these printing methods

DTG is just different, it uses water based inks that have a soft hand but silkscreen with water base does the same. DTG is used for small runs, silks screen is used for large runs, Your per piece for DTG may be $10.00 per shirt per side, silk screen could be half that for both. DTG printing there are no screens that need to be made, silk screen requires a screen for every color unles its 4 color processes. Most high fashion companys have the screen printed for ecomonimic reasons, or have the print done before the shirt is made. A DTG print is a what you see is what you get, if the edges are jaged so is the print.
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1. It can be. It depends on the DTG printer and the screen printer and the design.

2. "Does a screen printed shirt always have a layer of paint on it that a person can feel?" No. There are lots of different ways to screen print a t-shirt. Waterbased inks or discharge ink doesn't have a layer of ink that a person can feel.
Whereas a DTG printed shirt is basically textureless? Not all the time.

3. They generally don't mention the printing methods they use when you buy them from the store. So no. But I wouldn't be surprised if there were some that used DTG.

4. Don't know what you mean by jagged edges, but I don't see why it would be a problem.
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