What is Direct to Garment Printing?
Direct-to-garment printing, or DTG as you will often see it, is a way to decorate items by applying water based inks directly to the item. You are actually dying the image onto the item as the ink is absorbed by the substrate. There are large DTG printers that are essentially your home printer (major brands are Brother and Epson) but much larger and with different inks. Advantages No minimums - one of the biggest pain points when people by custom shirts is running into minimums. This is usually because of the labor and time involved in building screens to screen print shirts. But since DTG shirts are usually printed one at a time, there are no minimums to worry about. A shirt is loaded into the printer, The design is…