What is a DTF printer?

 Why is DTF Printer active in the market? There are too many machines on the market that can print T-shirts. There are large-scale printers, roller machines, and screen printing machines. There are also small digital direct-injection printing machines, offset heat transfer, and powder shaking machines. These are very prominent machines on the market today. Everyone has a high degree of recognition.

I believe that after reading the first paragraph, many readers already have a general direction in their minds. Which area is your main business scope and market direction? Today we concentrate on printing T-shirts with DTF printer and introduce other printing methods to print T-shirts. And compare the differences and advantages of these types of printing. Let you have a more intuitive understanding of the current market choices.

1. What is a DTF printer?

DTF prints are also known as a digital offset heat transfer and powder shaking machine. The name comes from the actual effect of offset color printing. The pattern design is clear and true, which can exceed the actual effect of the photo. Many people named it to offset heat transfer based on Kodak photos. Also known as DTF printer, it is the small family economic printer we are using now.

DTF printer uses hot melt powder to print on PET transfer film. This hot melt powder is professionally produced and used for this machine. The working principle of this machine is: the printing material slagging agent penetrates into the fabric, produces hot melt and falls off and then bonds. It is necessary to use two kinds of printing technologies, offset printing and ink printing. Without the close integration of the two technologies, it is difficult to produce corresponding products.

DTF printer adopts a complete set of low-temperature silica gel + four-color offset ink, which is soft to the touch and has very good air permeability; bright colors, vivid and clear colors, and photo effects; stretch-resistant, good recovery effect; wash-resistant (up to 4-5); Good at expressing the fine and shallow effect of patterns; through SGS environmental protection (European standard textiles: total lead, eight heavy metals, phthalates, azo, organic tin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde).

DTF printers are generally used by self-employed persons. Or a slightly larger operator. Or it may be a distributor with agency rights. DTF printer is very suitable to transfer all kinds of clothing, sportswear, small commodities, etc. with PET film. For example: tailored T-shirts, sweaters, hats, aprons, etc.; various sportswear, swimwear, baseball uniforms, cycling wear, yoga wear, etc.; various small commodities, mugs, mouse pads, souvenirs, etc

. The main one is T-shirts. There are many products to choose from for T-shirts. Cotton T-shirts, polyester T-shirts, Lycra T-shirts, chiffon T-shirts, etc. Each T-shirt has a different product. If you want to print your own style trends and materials on the T-shirt. Then other kinds of printers may be difficult to implement. Our DTF printer machine can be made of any product, whether your T-shirt is pure cotton or other products, whether your T-shirt is white, black or color, can be transferred. And the printed product is washable, has high color fastness, and is comfortable and breathable. Especially in the hot summer, it is very suitable.

2. So what is the difference between DTF printer and other printers?

It is mainly the number of printed T-shirts that have been emphasized in the previous article. There are large orders from major T-shirt distributors if it is printed in large quantities. You can choose to use screen printing, and the price of screen printing is relatively low. Since of the low printing cost of screen printing, printing is carried out in the form of plate making, which incurs plate making costs, and is suitable for mass production.

Due to the fact that the screen printing adopts the color printing method, it is impossible to achieve the transition of all colors between the two colors according to the picture, and it is difficult to reflect the color transition according to the picture itself. If you want to achieve high-precision, high-complexity printing patterns, screen printing is obviously not suitable. The speed is very fast and the efficiency is very high. There are color restrictions and serious pollution.

If you choose to personalize individualized T-shirts and have a small order, you can choose to use DTF printer and DTG printer. There is no restriction on the color, which is more random. Strong flexibility, more suitable for responding to market changes. Moreover, the hot melt powder and ink used have reached environmental protection standards, which is more environmentally friendly. It is very in line with modern international requirements.

Direct to film printing does not need to make a plate, and directly prints the trend in the computer on the cotton fabric to achieve the printing effect of what you see is what you get. But in actual operation, if it is a dark order, you need to spray the pretreatment liquid first. It will affect the printing effect if the pretreatment liquid is not handled well.

Thermal transfer is a new kind of process that uses thermal transfer equipment to transfer patterns and images printed on thermal transfer paper to fabrics through heat and pressure. Dye-sublimation transfer method is mainly for polyester chemical fiber materials. When the heat transfers to the clothing fabric, the ink is directly sublimated into the fabric fiber, and the color is fast and sharp. Realize the effect of graphic printing with transitional color and rich layering.