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Shanarchy:
Anyone here using a Brother GTX or Epson F2100? I saw some posts about people considering them. Wondering how the maintenance are on these. Also wondering how their newest technology compares to the M-Link X in terms of speed, print quality and ink cost per shirt.

GraphicDisorder:

--- Quote from: Shanarchy on July 26, 2018, 09:32:10 AM ---Anyone here using a Brother GTX or Epson F2100? I saw some posts about people considering them. Wondering how the maintenance are on these. Also wondering how their newest technology compares to the M-Link X in terms of speed, print quality and ink cost per shirt.

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I wouldn't trust what Brother tells you in a trade show booth about print costs that's for sure. Real world answers is the right way to look for this.

Brother told that max id have in a print would be $1.80 (one side). I was literally told that typical print was $.60 and that I should triple that to be safe as a max cost. Trouble is had a print that was $11.30 I think it was (1 side) off that machine and I can't remember a print that was ever $.60 off that Brother.

M&R had prints that were $.08 was the lowest I saw. Serious.

Shanarchy:

--- Quote from: GraphicDisorder on July 26, 2018, 10:21:44 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shanarchy on July 26, 2018, 09:32:10 AM ---Anyone here using a Brother GTX or Epson F2100? I saw some posts about people considering them. Wondering how the maintenance are on these. Also wondering how their newest technology compares to the M-Link X in terms of speed, print quality and ink cost per shirt.

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I wouldn't trust what Brother tells you in a trade show booth about print costs that's for sure. Real world answers is the right way to look for this.

Brother told that max id have in a print would be $1.80 (one side). I was literally told that typical print was $.60 and that I should triple that to be safe as a max cost. Trouble is had a print that was $11.30 I think it was (1 side) off that machine and I can't remember a print that was ever $.60 off that Brother.

M&R had prints that were $.08 was the lowest I saw. Serious.

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Thanks Brandt! You had the normal M-Link, not the X, right?
What did maintenance consist of on that machine? Ever any down time? What did your customers think of the feel & look of the prints as opposed to traditional screen printing? How close would you say the prints were compared to waterbase printing?

GraphicDisorder:

--- Quote from: Shanarchy on July 26, 2018, 11:05:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: GraphicDisorder on July 26, 2018, 10:21:44 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shanarchy on July 26, 2018, 09:32:10 AM ---Anyone here using a Brother GTX or Epson F2100? I saw some posts about people considering them. Wondering how the maintenance are on these. Also wondering how their newest technology compares to the M-Link X in terms of speed, print quality and ink cost per shirt.

--- End quote ---

I wouldn't trust what Brother tells you in a trade show booth about print costs that's for sure. Real world answers is the right way to look for this.

Brother told that max id have in a print would be $1.80 (one side). I was literally told that typical print was $.60 and that I should triple that to be safe as a max cost. Trouble is had a print that was $11.30 I think it was (1 side) off that machine and I can't remember a print that was ever $.60 off that Brother.

M&R had prints that were $.08 was the lowest I saw. Serious.

--- End quote ---

Thanks Brandt! You had the normal M-Link, not the X, right?
What did maintenance consist of on that machine? Ever any down time? What did your customers think of the feel & look of the prints as opposed to traditional screen printing? How close would you say the prints were compared to waterbase printing?

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Yup just the X. The machine basically had zero maintenance daily. Clean up the capping station and what not periodically. We had a head strike (our fault) which put us down a day. We played with some of the different pre-treats as well from them that kept us from printing a couple times. But nothing major.

I would not compare DTG to screen printing, its not the same so I would do yourself the favor and just state that to customers. But the prints always felt good and after a couple washes was generally softer than screen print. I have DTG Prints that still look new after many many many uses.

DTG still has a ways to go, no matter what anyone tells you.

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