We call ourselves a full service shop and DTG is one of the reasons for that. DTG is an acronym that stands for Direct to Garment Printing. It’s a digital process that allows us to digitally print directly onto a t-shirt. As far as we know, we are the only DTG Printer in Berks County and it is one of the ways we are able to print low (or no) minimum orders.

Screen printing is a fantastic print method but there is a lot of setup that goes along with a screen print job which is why screen printing always has a minimum. With Direct to Garment Printing, all you need is a printer and a higher resolution file and you can print 1 shirt just as easily as 50 t-shirts. These printers are very expensive and equally impressive.

They are essentially large ink jet printers with very large print heads. A shirt gets loaded onto the printer, a design file gets sent to the printer, the printer feeds the t-shirt in and the printer prints directly onto the shirt. After the shirt is printed, the shirt needs to be cured to evaporate the water and dry the ink. With DTG printing, there is no limit to the number of colors you can print and the quality is almost as good as screen printing.

Create high-quality printed garments with minimal training or experience.

Direct to garment printing (or DTG) is simply an emerging garment decorating technology that became widely available in the commercial market in the mid-2000s. Unlike traditional labor-intensive processes such as screen printing and embroidery, DTG utilizes inkjet printing technology to send a full color, detailed design directly from a computer to a digital printer with a garment loaded into it.

Piezo print heads then jet opaque white ink and translucent CMYK ink onto the garment and recreate the digital artwork. These inks are water-based, eco-friendly inks that are specifically designed to adhere to fabric when heat cured.

DTG makes it simple to create high-quality printed garments and relieves you from needing highly skilled, extensively trained employees with years of printing experience.

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Step 1 – Pretreat and Cure the Garment