Picture of new Brother GT-782 DTG printer

55K / Huge printer. Some of my folks could hide inside it. I think it is extra large so they are not limiting thier options for new add on's.

To make it the best printer it needs the following.

It needs to print both platens at the same time , so we can print one larger surface when needed.
It needs 2 sets of print heads, to increase productions.
It needs to use UV ink and uv cure. Good-by heater, hello profit.
If same type of white ink is required then it must pretreat in the same motion.
They must configure it to due all the extras, Shoes, Hats, etc.
Maybe it needs to make me lunch. smile

I will be buying one at 55K but folks it has a lot of room for improvement.

It will not print across both platens (to create one super large platen). There is a pole that comes down that separates the two platens that prevent this. You might be to open it up and slide something in and position the platens, but I am not sure.

I got a pretty good tour of the printer and it is pretty nice prototype. The best feature that I think this printer is how they can suck the ink out of the lines back into the cartridges. The ink lines are pretty long (at least 5 feet long) and it would be big $$$ if you had to flush them down the lines. So Brother put a feature in the printer that sucks the ink back into the cartridge so you don't lose the ink. Brillant idea!

This is the first step of many to come (hopefully sooner than later) that will improve the dtg market. Looking forward to the changes.

Mark