If you are engaged in the textile printing industry, then you should have heard of this latest technology – direct to film printing, also known as DTF printing. There are many technologies that were originally transferred on the fabric, such as sublimation printing, screen printing, DTG printing etc.. So do you know why the DTF technology is introduced in the textile printing market? Today we will mainly discuss the differences between DTF printing and DTG printing, and why we recommend DTF printing.
For a long time, DTG printing is the first choice for printing cotton fabrics, which is suitable for T -shirt printing and small business. In the past two years, the emergence of DTF printing has made everyone shine, and the digital printing market quickly occupied the DTG that can only be printed with cotton and the sublimation printing for printing polyester. Printing on all fabric materials is a point that customers cares about.
Well, let’s analyze the differences between DTG and DTF in this article.
Looking at the printing process first. The course of DTG printing is partitioned into four stages: pre – processing, drying, printing, and curing. DTF printing is for the most part separated into three stages: printing DTF films, heat press, tearing film. DTF has one stage not exactly DTG printing, saving time and labor.
In DTG printing process, the pigment ink is heat-pressed to bound with the texture surface, which is challenging to perform on each texture thinking about its similarity. Thus, this interaction is restricted to a particular scope of texture. Eg. Cotton, Cotton, Combed Cotton, Organic Cotton, Linen, and so on. As in DTF, the film with configuration is fastened to the garment utilizing a heat-melting glue, there is compelling reason need to stress over the texture’s similarity with abundance heat to print on. Thus DTF process has an extensive variety of texture reasonableness.
The washing execution of DTF printed garments is more phenomenal than DTG printing. In DTG printing, however a base measure of ink is splashed on the garment, the hand feel of the garment is impressively great. You can feel a dainty layer of hot-melting powder stick on the garment in DTF printing, the garments have a typical hand feel.
Set-up expenses to cover a wide range of garment sizes can be high as the DTG printing process utilizes edges to print on the specific size of garment. In DTF, there are no additional expenses included. To cover a wide range of garment sizes, you just have to change the size of the print film.
DTG printing process is exceptionally eco-accommodating as the substance utilized for garment treatment can be reused on different occasions. DTF printing process is less eco-accommodating as there is a great deal of wastage of PET films.
The two strategies need a considerable amount of white ink to print, yet with the utilization of a decent Rip Software, it is feasible to control the layer of white that is applied in DTG, contingent upon the base tone and hence diminish costs impressively.
Business DTF printers are extremely quick and texture choices are greatly improved. You can apply a DTF transfer to pretty much any texture. Any tone. DTG works effectively on white poly and light or dull hued cotton. And a fair work on mixes — in the event that you’re cautious. And it will print on dull poly too in the event that you’re extremely quiet, exceptionally precise, and able to explore.
A DTF transfer loves polyester shirts. Dull shaded fabricated materials are perfect; totally on light tones too. Cottons look staggering in any tone — even modest cotton shirts look great! And stretchy materials work too.
Along these lines, DTF transfers enjoy upper hands over screen-printed ones since you can without much of a stretch do unique cases. It enjoys upper hands over white toner and sublimation transfers since you can apply them to additional textures.
This moment, making transfers isn’t a possibility for direct-to-garment printer proprietors. So that entire transfer business opportunity is inaccessible to DTG printer proprietors. In any case, give it a couple of months and you will see changes to that. However, dtf will in any case have the edge since you’ll be physically applying the hot soften powder and drying independently.
For small scale printing, where you are looking for good color results and you don’t want to make such a large investment, DTF may be more suitable. But the DTG printing now has more versatile printing machines, with different plates and processes, which allow faster and more flexible printing.
