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Quote from: Maxie on January 08, 2017, 03:25:42 PMI don't think you can compare a few Brothers to a Kornit, any Kornit.The Kornit was designed from scratch to be a digital printer, i don't think there is anything on the market that comes close to it in terms of quality.It's like comparing a Mercedes to a Subaru.I disagree, I'd say to the general person buying DTG shirts (ie. Custom Ink) they wouldn't really know the difference between the end product on either machine.Also, the comparison is that when your one Mercedes is broken down, it is expensive to fix, and how many techs are in the field for Kornits in the US, as well as your few Subaru's, one breaks down and you have backups that keep production running.As Frog said, you would have to worry about labor of running multiple DTG printers, but I think one operator could run a few machines at a time as they take a few minutes to print a tee.Custom Ink uses brother printers, I'm pretty Zazzle, the Printful and other DTG companies all run more small machines, I'm not really sure the target market of Kornit printers, there is a person in Portland that area that has one but they aren't that great of operators so their print quality is not that great even with the Kornit Storm.I would however love to have a Vulcan, but my target customer we would never see a profit from the machine until they come down in cost. Sell me a Vulcan for 80k and I'm there.
I don't think you can compare a few Brothers to a Kornit, any Kornit.The Kornit was designed from scratch to be a digital printer, i don't think there is anything on the market that comes close to it in terms of quality.It's like comparing a Mercedes to a Subaru.
DTG isn't plug and play that's for sure.I will say there are some new shirts coming out that are pretreated all over. The fabric is treated at the mill. It's really cool and the results are pretty good from what I've heard. The only downside is they sold out of the first production run.https://rtpapparel.com/