DTG is ideal for low-minimum projects and art with many colors because there are no screens involved. DTG is compatible with various materials such as T-shirts, long sleeves, toddler wear, and fleece items like hoodies and sweatshirts.

In the past, DTG was considered a lesser alternative to screen printing but recent tech innovations have closed the gap between the two. With today’s DTG printing machines, it’s difficult to distinguish a digitally printed garment from a screen-printed one.

Screen printing is awesome and the most commonly used method of garment embellishment, but it has certain drawbacks. With screen printing, you have to create the stencils, manually mix the ink colors and register everything together on press. This setup can be expensive at around $30 per color in your art. It’s also difficult if not impossible to simulate gradients and photo-realistic images with screen printing. In other words, screen printing involves a lot of setup work, is more expensive for the printer, and therefore more expensive for the consumer whereas DTG involves very little with no additional setup costs.

Direct-to-garment printing system can print on 100% cotton and poly blended garments. It’s not compatible with any material that has a waterproof coating or is full synthetic. DTG can print on the front and back of tee shirts, and sleeves, along with other certain unique locations. DTG on fleece garments is not recommended and we can suggest what process may work best. Like all printing processes the print quality is only as good as the image quality so please submit your art at the size and resolution you want it printed if you can.

Here is a great article on preparing your artwork for our DTG printing HERE