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Awww yeah! Thanks for the love. To cure the shirt, you can either run through a forced air conveyor dryer or use a heat press. Heat press should be about 350 for 110 seconds, light pressure, the heating element should hardly be touching the garment.

@@MelcoEmbroidery Thank you for your answer. I appreciate it. What T-shirt supplier do you recommend for my business? Thank you👕💙

Glad you found it helpful. Pre-pretreated shirts can be great. If you are finding your colors are a bit muted you can give the shirt a quick light spray with Alba Canned Pretreat. Here's the link. shopmelco.com/alba-pre-canned-pretreat/

Glad you enjoyed the video, hope it was helpful! Here is a video I made on preparing art for DTG. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNyehMKJuN24en0.html I also wrote an article you might find helpful. prodtg.com/2016/06/28/how-to-prepare-art-for-dtg-printing/

So the heat press will often encourage dye migration meaning when the shirt and ink is subject to heat and pressure, the dye in the garment will migrate through the ink. The solution is to use almost no pressure on the heat press. Or better yet, buy a small forced air conveyor dryer. These dryers maintain the best color after cure. shopmelco.com/bbc-forced-air-conveyor-dryer-2408/

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I use level 4 and bump up the white and color density a bit. I cure the shirt at 375 for 90 seconds or so, with low pressure. If you are experiencing color loss, that is a result of the dye in the garment migrating through the print. What brand of shirt are you using? Generally the solution is to use a different blank and reduce heat, pressure, and time on your heat press.

Good question. 360ish for 120 seconds with universal pretreat 75 seconds with Epson pretreat. Light to no pressure.

On a recommended Ring Spun garment I use level 3 or 5. If you use an open ended budget blank, you'll need more. Watch this video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLCZfK1j2Nutoqc.html

Yeah the concept is the same. Good quality shirts, good quality pretreat application, and a good nozzle check should deliver a good quality result on any DTG printer.

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Email me Jledrew@melco.com

Hello, yes a forced air conveyor dryer works extremely well with Epson ink. Here is a quick video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oduce7WVz9GXYoU.html If your dryer is not forced air, it will take considerably longer to cure the ink and may not fully cure at all. Air is required to remove the moisture barrier and allow the heat to penetrate the ink for a full cure.

You only need to pretreat if you use white ink. If you are pretreating lt grey, I suggest 80% water 20% Epson or Ecofreen pretreat and spray it fast so you don't have a lot of buildup, this way you will avoid staining and still get a nice bright print if you are using a good quality ring spun shirt. If you try this method on a budget blank, your result will be muted no matter how much pretreat you lay down.

@@MelcoEmbroidery Once again must say how much I admire your chanel and your quick response So if I print navy blue on light heather grey Or multiple colors without white I still dont need pre treat? Thank you I'm considering purchasing a printer And still not sure

Thank you we're happy to help! You are correct, if you put dark colors on light color garments, you don't need white and therefore don't need to pretreat.

Thanks Francisco!

Hi Rachel, Rule of thumb is to never let your pretreat solution sit in the lines for more than an hour. You can use basically any general cleaning spray bottle solution. Cleaning products with a lot of ammonia could be less effective, worth trying a few out. Basically, you are trying to breakdown that pretreat so it doesn't build up and gum up the tiny parts. The heat press cover is teflon, It's pretty common, should be easy to find. I suggest one for the heating element and one for the platen.

The point of this video is to show that your setting in Garment Creator are not as relevant to vibrant prints as the 3 main steps. Focus on the 3 steps and use level 3 or 5 in Garment Creator. If level 3 or 5 doesn't give you bright vibrant prints, then go back and master the 3 steps, it's that easy.

@@MelcoEmbroidery Thanks Sir for your valuable comment. But level 3 or 5 for which setting? Print Quality?

Hard to say without seeing a photo. Email me jledrew@melco.com

Heat press at 375 for about 120 seconds, very light pressure. Or a conveyor dryer.

My understanding is any normal wash cycle you would use for shirts will be fine.

@@MelcoEmbroidery thanks 🙏🏻…by the way I have a Roland Truevis Sg2-300 printer..my question is,can I make flyers with that?

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Everyone has a slightly different techniques and results, I am thrilled to hear you are receiving results you are happy with. Happy Printing!

Which Gildan do you recommend for dtg? Do the Gildan premium work well?

Thank you for your thoughts and you make some interesting points, however you are overlooking a few factors that make the Epson F2100 a totally viable revenue stream. 1. It's extremely versatile. You can print transfers affordably, fast, and full color, that permanently adhere to almost any fabric. I's portable, you can take the machine to events and print on site. You can do large volume or one offs. Full color custom prints in less than 5 minutes. DTG is perfect for print on demand, sell then print, e-commerce platforms. 2. The F2100 is extremely reliable. Very little maintenance, the industries leading trouble free warranty, almost no ink waste, and virtually no down time. Clogging is no longer an issue with the F2100, automated cleanings, running ink changes that get better over time, internal circulation, multiple filters, print head fabric wiper, anti drying capping station, the thing is a turn on, use it, turn off product, it just works. And the best part! If it doesn't work, call Epson support, they come fix it within two days for free, all part of the warranty. The F2100 is by far and away the leading and best selling DTG printer of all time for a reason, it works and it prints cash. I can't speak about your friend at Amazon but I can say every mass produced print house I have been in, wether it's Kornit, Brother, Aeon, they all have a full on repair shop for their printers. They run those things hard, clean them infrequently, and treat them as disposable. If anyone is looking to add DTG to their decoration offerings, I am confident in the F2100 as the best possible and most profitable solution. If there was a better option, believe me, we would sell it.

Always turn your machine off, it initiates the suction cap cleaning cycle. The tech is misinformed.

@@MelcoEmbroidery I’m hearing so many conflicting stories. I was told the suction cap engages when the machine is on but idle like sleep mode