Pretreatment in the same area?

rjwz28 said:

I’m a newbie thinking of getting into DTG printing. Is it okay to have your heat press near the printer in the same room? I thought I read some place on line that it isn’t good to have it near the printer because the shirt lint could get in the print head nozzles.

Thanks,
Rob

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What you probably read about is pretreating. If you are spraying your pretreatment on by hand, or using an open automatic pretreater, then you must pretreat in a separate room away from the printer. You never want any pretreatment mist ever getting into your printer.

You can place a heat press near your printer without an issue.

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Thanks Harry for that quick and informative reply. I know I read something, but now it was the pretreating.

Aloha,
Rob

rjwz28 said:

Thanks Harry for that quick and informative reply. I know I read something, but now it was the pretreating.

Aloha,
Rob

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Note that an enclosed automatic pretreater can be placed right next to the printer without worry since any mist should stay inside the unit.

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