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blue moon:
few months back we purchased the Belquette MOD1 and their EDGE pretreater. Could not be happier with what we got! The colors are just spectacular, the Coca Cola red is right on! If somebody showed me the print, I would not believe them that it was a CMYK off a DTG machine. Very, very vibrant and bright. I ran a couple of wash tests and everything is holding up like it was not washed. On whites it is cruising! We set ours for 720x720 and are under a minute per print (smaller size but bigger than left chest). On darks it is taking longer, but that's because we are running it unidirectional at highest resolution. Still, just amazing. Had a Kornit guy look at it and say they cant do that! (on a printer that's 10x the money!)

Additionally, our DTG guy has been away from work for a couple of months so I had to step in. 'talk about customer service! Jerid has been AWESOME! I've been bugging him for help since taking over the DTG part and he helped bring me up to speed on several procedures and advice. Great guy, with great reputation, which I am learning is deservedly so. Over the last couple of years I talked to several digital decorating (not just DTG) companies and they all talked very highly of Jerid. Now I know why; knowledgeable and helpful without any attitude. 'just taking care of business. . .

Thank you Jerid for all your help during the sale and afterwards. It is one of the best experiences I've had.

Anybody wanting to see a sample, let me know! 'will gladly send some out.

No, Belquette or Jerid did not compensate me for this, nor will they. This is just because they are great ppl to deal with and more should know about it!

pierre

JeridHill:
Wow, I never realized a dude could make me blush, hahaha.

Thanks for the kind words. My philosophy throughout the years has been if you are down, you are losing money and I don't want that! We do take that seriously and have always been appreciative of positive or negative feedback, it's what helps strive to always do better.

Stinkhorn Press:
I'm a bit familiar with your shop Pierre - where are you finding customers/demand that requires that you chase DTG at all? How does this fit into your system? What holes does it fill in?

Inquiring minds would like to know!

blue moon:

--- Quote from: Stinkhorn Press on April 10, 2018, 12:22:58 PM ---I'm a bit familiar with your shop Pierre - where are you finding customers/demand that requires that you chase DTG at all? How does this fit into your system? What holes does it fill in?

Inquiring minds would like to know!

--- End quote ---

digital is coming!!! We bought DTG to get ready for the future. It gives us an opportunity to set up the operating procedures for digital workflow. That was the main reason for the purchase.

Right now, we are getting about an order per week without any advertising of the services (we only told 4 customers). As we dial the systems in and let everybody know we can do it, I expect about an order per day (for now, and at our prices). So we will print mon, wed fri. . .

Many of our customers want smaller quantities of high color work which are not cost effective with seps and screens. I just printed an order for a gaming company that needed 3 pcs of several simulated process designs we print on regular bases. This was a sample pack on a particular garment and particular size for a particular person (international sales rep I think). So scenarios like this one keep popping up. Think preproduction samples so customers can show it and close sales, small quantities for reunions and so on. If they want more than one color, this fits the bill.

It will also allow us the print one or two pieces we were short during the run when the numbers have to be exact. Instead of setting it back up on the press, we'll run them on the DTG.

ask me in 12 months and I'll have a better answer of where it fits!  ;D

pierre

Stinkhorn Press:
thanks!
long term goal of having an almost imperceptible difference between DTG output and your printing processes? or is that an unreachable goal?

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