sublimation printing

 Is DTG Printing Eco-friendly?    DTG printing is a more sustainable fashion business model than screen printing. Mainly because printing one-offs allows businesses to avoid overproduction and textile waste. With 92 million tons of textile going to waste in the fashion industry each year, a business model like this is a game-changer.     Plus, a lot of DTG printer manufacturers create advanced tech that’s made with sustainability in mind. For example, our partners with Sublistar whose printers produce almost zero wastewater and use less energy, lowering the carbon footprint.     What’s more, sublistar DTG printers use water-based vegan inks that they formulate, test, and produce in their own ink factories, maintaining the highest quality levels. The inks are non-hazardous, toxin-free, biodegradable, and contain no animal by-products.     Direct-to-garment printing is a hassle-free way to get the products ready for your customers. ...

What is a DTG printer ? The Direct to Garment printers, popularly known as DTG printers prints digital images sourced from a computer to a textile substrate. DTG printing is also known as inkjet to garment printing. A specially made inkjet printer is used for this purpose. Then why more and more people need a DTG printer? A DTG printer offers a number of advantages as compared to traditional textile printing. Setup costs are much less, zero even, when compared to the screen printing method. DTG printers are essentially push button operations. You just have to start it and the machine is ready to do its work. A big advantage of DTG printers are that it is perfect for small orders and the occasional print. Production costs are reasonable. Besides, any textile printing done through this technique are found to be detailed and accurate. Unlike their screen print brethren, the DTG printers does not charge as per colors printed. It follows that the printing is affordable too. The ...

Because of the high quality and convenience, DTG (Direc-to-Garment) printing becomes more and more popular nowadays. But before you start your first step in this line, you’d better know some problems. 1.Do you need pre-treat shirts in advance? Generally we suggest pre-treat the t-shirt in advance. We recommend 3 weeks but have actually had shirts pretreated for months and still gotten good results. The hardest part is keeping pretreated shirts clean and dust free until you need them. 2. Can it print on the blend cotton/poly blends (70/30) ? Yes, of course. But you should avoid printing on any clothing with odor blockers or any kind of stain resistant technology though. We use water based inks and those are made to repel water! 3. If there is a wrinkle in the t-shirt when printing, what will happened? The wrinkle will be still in the t-shirt after printing. So remember pay attention to the t-shirt before printing.   4. Will the print head got clogged if n...

Dye sublimation printing and DTG are both the popular printing technologies, and many people don’t know the difference between them. Today, we will have an introduction for both of them. Dye sublimation printing is the process of printing onto the sublimation transfer paper , and then transferring that image onto fabric. The ink is heated until it disintegrates into the corresponding fabric. That makes the ink long-lasting, and you’ll never have the unfortunate “peeling” effect of a well-worn t-shirt. DTG is pretty much like using a printer to print on fabric. Because it works like a printer, it can support the most detailed design, with as many colors as you want. The printer can only print one garment at a time, which makes it perfect for printing one-off t-shirts. These two different printing methods has their own advantages and advantages. Here is a list. Advantages Disadvantages Sublimation Printing 1. Prints seam-to-seam (all over the gar...