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-scan the shirt at pretreat station so it deposits the fluid in the shape of the art rather than a box.
Wow, from stapled mesh to this, man, how things have progressed. So, after taking the pretreated shirt from the Belquette and sending it down the dryer, how do you get the pretreated area in the right place (registered) on the Epson platen?Steve
This thing is $56,000 - how do you make money with it? What is the business plan for this?
I think people are not realizing this unit can take the place of a manual press (with better printing no offense) plus free up your auto or autos of the 36 - 72 piece orders. Say a 3 or 4 screen job needs to be run at 48 pieces BAM done in a little over a hour. No screens, no screen reclaim, and no ink mixing. Your big client really needs a sim process print front and back (most likely 8 screens at least both sides) but only 72 pieces. Well here you go. This doesn't have to print on demand only. We plan on using it for our web stores and actually production of smaller orders.
One thing I would really need to point out here is the very high cost of white ink. Especially if you want to make the print actually look good.I can`t speak about the Epson but with GTX Pro a 16" tall print will set you back by probably $3-$4 in ink cost(incl. pretreat and an extra10% for ink waste during cleaning process). And this cost stays the same regardless if you do 10 or 100 garments. Of course if quality of the print is not the main concern then you can get away with less.
Quote from: brandon on December 24, 2020, 04:10:39 PMI think people are not realizing this unit can take the place of a manual press (with better printing no offense) plus free up your auto or autos of the 36 - 72 piece orders. Say a 3 or 4 screen job needs to be run at 48 pieces BAM done in a little over a hour. No screens, no screen reclaim, and no ink mixing. Your big client really needs a sim process print front and back (most likely 8 screens at least both sides) but only 72 pieces. Well here you go. This doesn't have to print on demand only. We plan on using it for our web stores and actually production of smaller orders.Most folks do not need to "free up your auto" as many only operate less than 40% of the time available anyway....
I'm looking at this set up from a different point of view. I'm tired of looking for GOOD employees and spending time to train them to leave. The younger generation (I'm 39 so I mean 20 year olds) are not looking to learn printing or embroidery. I think it would be much easier and more to their liking to train them in DTG. I also believe this unit could replace one of my autos. I do run a fair amount of process but the majority of my work is spot color (White plus a color or two). I finally got some samples of some repeat spot color jobs i do on a regular that I would feel comfortable with selling. Anyhow; I think it would be much easier to train someone on this machine versus an auto. I also believe one person with this set up could produce more than 2 or 3 on an auto working on 12-48 piece runs of 1 to 5 colors. Just my 2 cents.RossPS In my situation Print on Demand would just be a bonus