Pretreating and Curing the Pretreatment for 100% Black Polyester Printing

Paul Boody

Check out these practical tips – from giving enough pretreatment to using hover curing techniques and fine-tuning white ink application. Learn why nailing the curing process is crucial to avoid durability issues after washing. This guide dives into polyester-specific challenges, ensuring your prints shine and your business thrives.

Printer Warranties and Third Party Ink

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Discover the legality and protection provided by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Improvement Act when it comes to using third-party inks for your garment printer.

Testing Pretreatment on Different Shirts

Paul Boody

Looking to achieve optimal white ink prints? Check out this helpful guide to ease the process. Whether you're hands-on with a Wagner sprayer or exploring the features of an automatic pretreatment machine like the Peal PTM, experimenting with different pretreatments and shirt types is the key to optimal results.

DTG Garment Printer Machine Maintenance Bible

Paul Boody

Achieve a seamless and positive experience with your machine by adhering to simple rules and dedicating just five minutes daily. This routine ensures a content machine, satisfied customers, visually appealing prints, reduced need for head replacements, and an overall enjoyable experience.

Understanding how low humidity effects your garment printer

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Brian Walker from Image Armor explains the two most important factors to a garment printer's health: temperature and humidity.

Side by side printing on Epson F2000 and F2100

Dean Armando

The F2100 is not a whole lot faster than the F2000. Quality is the same. It's hard to say upgrading will be worth it, however, if this is your first garment printer, it's definitely an upgrade from the older F2000

Understanding Process Printing

Paul Boody

Process Printing is used to make the color ink more vibrant in your prints; All without the use of white ink in the CMYK configuration. Learn all of this and more in this blog post where we take a look at different techniques often used in process printing.

DTG Viper 2 Garment Printer Review

Paul Boody

The DTG Viper 2 is a groundbreaking garment printer designed for higher speed prints, precision, and white ink reliability. It is a significant improvement over the original Viper, with a smaller footprint, making it more portable and suitable for smaller spaces.

Brother GTX Garment Printer Review

Paul Boody

The Brother GTX direct-to-garment (DTG) printer is a user-friendly device with advanced features that make it easy to print complex and colorful designs with high resolution. It's designed for efficient short runs, quick reprints, and offers unlimited color options. The printing process involves pretreating and curing the garment, preparing digital art, printing on the garment, and curing the ink.

Anajet Ricoh Ri 6000

Dean Armando

This is a great printer     

Anajet Ricoh Ri 3000

Dean Armando

AnaJet introduces the RICOH Ri 3000 and Ri 6000 printers, revolutionizing professional apparel printing in three simple steps: design, print, and cure. These direct-to-garment printers offer versatility, allowing customization on various garments. The AnaRIP™ software simplifies the printing process, seamlessly integrating with graphic design software. The printers, adaptable to natural and synthetic fabrics, deliver fast, vibrant, and durable prints. The creative possibilities extend to T-shirts, sleeves, kids' apparel, hoodies, bags, metallic foil applications, socks, and hats.

DTG M6 Garment Printer Review

Dean Armando

 The DTG M6 is a high-volume Direct to Garment (DTG) printer designed for big shops and screen printers. It features interchangeable platens for optimized workflow, allowing printing of multiple garments simultaneously. The printer offers multi-size graphics, enabling the transition from small chest prints to all-over prints with ease. With zero setup time, it eliminates the need for screens, rolls, or color separations. The M6 emphasizes fast fashion with on-demand printing capabilities.

Cleaning the Capping Station

Paul Boody

Ensuring the longevity of your printer starts with proper maintenance, and cleaning the capping station should be at the top of your list. Check out our tutorial video to see the step-by-step process, highlighting how straightforward and easy it is to perform.

Pearl Elite Pretreatment Machine Review

Paul Boody

     Pearl PTM Pretreatment Machine Catalog   Our ultimate flagship machine for the DTG pros. The Most Advanced DTG Pretreater Pretreatment Machine! The Pearl ELITE is the ultimate pretreat machine. Fabricated from premium materials, the Pearl Elite works just as good as it looks. A fully enclosed spray area and the patent pending internal filtration system guarantee zero pretreat emissions. The touch screen interface provides intuitive user control. Advanced features such as a cycle counter, level meter, production calculator and savable settings ensures consistent production.   Buy the Pearl Elite Pretreatment Machine here  

Pearl PTM Pretreatment Machine Review

Paul Boody

 Go over the value and features of the Pearl PTM Pretreatment Machine.

The reality of buying a garment printer

Dean Armando

DIRECT TO GARMENT PRINTING AND THE HARSH REALITY. It seems like everyday its a new customer complaining about another DTG company, and their DTG equipment. Everyday another name being drug through the mud. In the perfect world this wouldn't be happening. In this world, unfortunately the common misconception of how...