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TRADITIONAL SCREEN PRINTING *SHIRT GRAPHIC BY GREAT DANE GRAPHICS FULL COLOR DTG PRINT Direct to garment printing (or DTG) is simply an emerging garment decorating technology that became widely available in the commercial market in the mid-2000s. Unlike traditional labor-intensive processes such as screen printing, DTG utilizes inkjet printing technology to send a full color, detailed design directly from a computer to a digital printer with a garment loaded into it. Piezo print heads then jet opaque white ink and translucent CMYK ink onto the garment and recreate the digital artwork. These inks are water-based, eco-friendly inks that are specifically designed to adhere to fabric when heat cured. DTG makes it simple to create high-quality printed garments and relieves you from needing highly skilled, extensively trained employees with years of printing experience. Additionally, DTG overcomes the typical hurdles that screen printers encounter, by allowing you to easily run high color jobs in low quantity runs. Early DTG has created a fear factor for today's market as the technology was new, untested and many manufacturers used printers designed to print on paper and converted them to become DTG Printers. The Brother GTX Direct to Garment printer has solved the challenges associated with DTG printing. Brother has designed their Direct to Garment Printers with printheads and ink designed exclusively for the DTG process and has created a print gap to substrate distance that enables printing on a wide variety of products such as zippered hoodies, caps, shoes, coasters and tote bags. What exactly IS

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