Direct To Garment (DTG) Printing
At Create A Tee, we do custom printing on garments like t-shirts, hoodies, zoodies, sweatshirts and others. The method we use to print on these garments is DTG.
Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing is one of the fastest growing and best areas of apparel printing today. It utilizes a customized inkjet printer and specially designed inks to print directly onto textiles. The Apparel decorating process involves a garment being placed on a platen as it would for screen printing, but instead of a screen, a print head moves into place and prints directly on the garment over the desired print area then the printed garment is cured with heat. Digital garment printers generates remarkable results in the most simplistic way without being hindered by colour limitations, unreasonable set up times, limited space or sub-par quality heat transfers.
There definitely were concerns about digital garment printers when they first came out. Maybe you have heard they are hard to maintain or they break down often; possibly you have heard the rumour that they are made from abandoned MauMau crude weapons. Well, maybe that third rumour is a fabrication, but it holds about as much truth as the first two. These companies have put technologically advanced engineering into the printers and software. The ink itself has also come a long way too. The ink is vivid and impressive to say the least. Customers are extremely impressed with how we can produce exact copies of their logo or artwork and there is no need to compare pantones and order additional ink colours to satisfy the customer. This really unleashes a new t-shirt artist, one that isn’t bound to colours, gradients, and pantones; an artist than can create and print. Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing offers many advantages over traditional printing methods. Here are good reasons to consider DTG printing capabilities
- Full Colour Printing
Clients no longer need to simplify their design ambition to meet their budget. You can have any image with any colours printed.
- Minimal Setup Time / Cost
With DTG printing there is no need to setup individual screens to create a design; in fact, aside from the initial artwork file there is really very little setup at all! Forget about screens, emulsions, film output, screen exposure, rinse-out booths etc. This means one can have their garment printed and ready to be worn in under 20 minutes.
- No Minimum Orders
Due to the fact that there is virtually no setup or tear-down associated with each print job, it is easy to load up a single shirt and print it! You don’t demand that clients order a few dozen shirts (when they only really need one or a handful for their upcoming event)
- Affordability
Unlike screen-printing, direct to garment printer shops do not charge by the colour, so full-colour printing is extremely affordable.
- Perfect finish
Direct to garment printer inks attach directly to fibres, which gives a superb finish that almost feels like part of the fabric.
Conclusion
Print quality and reliability are essentially the most important reasons why DTG Digital has been the benchmark for the garment decoration industry globally.
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