So your test print cost is next to nothing.Hundreds of customers can't be wrong. You can do a test print at a very small size just to make sure your colors a good.

No screen printer will give someone a great price for full color front and back on 12 shirts. You also have to take into consideration that people understand that they are paying a higher price when they are getting a smaller run of shirts. If you have a design or production staff that can take this on then you will be fine. If you are a one man operation you will spend time dealing with this and not enough time for everything else. You will no doubt make money and get many orders if you have a dtg printer. Capping stations that need to be replaced more often than standard printers, white ink filters, sleeve platens that you will eventually need. Pressing time after pretreat, pressing time after printing. If it is a dark garment with a white underbase and you have it on 4 pass it can be up there. It can vary on how this you want the ink to go down. In the end dtg printing is amazing and a great way to make money and you will have tons of cool shirts.(if you don't neglect daily maintenance) I would read t-shirt forums so you can get an idea of what other people experience day to day with this printer. You need a small area to do this away from your printer, but preferably near a heat press. You also have to pretreat your dark garments to make sure the fibers are flattened. If you have to call a tech out for your large format printers then imagine that x20. Dtg printing is great for a company who can fix their own printers. It can seriously take a long time to print on the back of a shirt depending on the graphic. For anything over 200 shirts I will say that screen printing will save you so much time. I love dtg printing and it is great because you can fill small orders and large orders.

If you promised an order to someone you will have to troubleshoot quickly or it will not be filled. Depending on the company you are dealing with you cannot always expect speedy tech support.

If you do not take the time daily for this without a doubt you will have problems. After just a couple of shirts you will get rubberized ink on your wiper and capping station. You have to keep it clean and make sure the head can be capped properly. What the sales people tell you and what actual dtg owners tell you is not always the same.

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