Factor 6
How does
your fabric
react to pre-
treatments?
f applied to the wrong type of shirt, DTG pretreatment can cause
discoloration or staining of a shirt. That's why it is critical to print
on shirts that have been created with nonreactive dyes.
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"You often see discoloration caused by pretreat
when shirts have been processed with reactive
dyes," says White. "As a manufacturer, you have to
know what the shirt is ultimately going to be used
for in order to make sure you are using the right
recipe when you're creating those dyes."
Bell added, "Almost all of the machine
manufacturers have developed guidelines that are
effective in addressing this, but it is always best
if printers run test prints and develop their own
library of what works well for them."
