Screen Printers Open - A Forum for Screen Printing and Embroidery

We are considering a DTG machine to augment our screen printing and embroidery business. I would be very interested in any information I can gather from those who have such machines. I remember quite well the issues with the T-jets awhile back, and don't want to be in that position.

Thanks for the input. Would you mind if I gave you a call to talk about your machine? I am definately interested in one that does darks as well.

I second the Brother printer, 70,000 prints and I've replaced the black print head.  That machine just makes money, pure and simple.

Nope, and frankly, I still don't think white ink has been perfected in any of the sub-$30,000 machines.  What you should do is sub out the dark shirts and do the light shirts in house.  That is what we do and I maybe sub out 1 job every 3 or 4 months.

You have screen printing, you can still print dark shirts there.

No kidding, part of that could be because you are too old to begin with. 

That is a ton of money though.  For the hourly rates on that machine, it would be tough, and I had a friend that owned one, and he returned it.  The thing never ran right.  He has a GT-541 now.

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sam

I like the Brother, I've seen awesome prints from it, but frankly the ink costs are still a little on the high side.  I could use the extra production of having a dual platen system, but the white ink is the killer on the deal, I just don't think we could justify it right now.  Maybe when I am on the other side of some other payments, but not right now.