"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I appreciate everyone's input so far - very helpful. I know the client is using a local big frog retail store to do his printing. Sounds like a case of using the inexperienced retailer instead of turning to a professional printer like one of you. I'm going to call over and see what kind of machine they use at that retail location. I'll also zip over the file so you can test it as you generously offered to do. It would be nice to compare apples to apples. My client is happy with the output I've shown you, but I think that's because he's never seen the bar raised. For me it's a shame to see awesome detailed art (biased of course!) wasted with that kind of low quality output. I know that if I can show him quality, he'll never go back to this current sub par result. He's reselling these on his website so it has to look good. You guys are awesome!Mat Woodworthwww.boldlinedesign.com
island, i disagree on the white shirt PT....we get killer colors now with virtually no tweaking. The prints wash better as well.Check out the http://imagearmorpt.com/ site and ask Brian for a sample...we won't go back to not pretreating.the big frog over here stays pretty busy. it's a great idea, but I don't think I could handle those customers.
we have the 382, it's the 3rd brother printer we've owned.test the washability of the IA light formula. We actually use less ink per print, with better results, so it pretty much works itself out cost wise.this one was the first...didn't even have a model number...we beta tested for brother....so yeah, i've been doing this for a while as well.