New DTG Printer

12/02/2010 by admin.

A new revolutionary DTG or Direct to Garment printer has just hit the market place, from Yes Ltd.  It is really special because it claims to be able to print the white ink at the same time as the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. If this is true it will mean it will cut production time in half!

Up until now, if you were printing on dark or indeed black t-shirts, it was necessary to print a white layer first. This is partially for any white areas of the design, but  also so the lighter colours woulds show up. If you printed a light blue or yellow onto a black t-shirt, they would not show up. If you put a opaque layer of white onto the t-shirt first and then print the light colour onto that, you get a nice bright end result.

This meant the old process needed to do one pass under the printer head to receive the white layer, allow the white ink to dry, and then print again using the other colours. As you can imagine this takes rather a long time.

At this point in time it all sounds a bit implausible to me. At the end of the month there is the Printwear & Promotion Exhibition being held at the Birmingham NEC. Yes have got a stand and should be demonstrating the new process. I will go, observe and report back.

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