Thanks for this Colin! Do you ever use a heat press pillow to prevent those crease marks along the edges? I’m also an old school screen printer. I’ve been warned about DTF and probably digital hybrid printing taking over but do you see this as the case or do you anticipate screen print will have longevity and continue to be around?
Hey! I have used the pillow in the past. It works, but not as well as everyone "hopes" it will work. I mostly dislike it for causing the occasional hiccup/wrinkle in the transfer or causing the transfer to shift a little. Direct to Film Printing - in whatever form it takes, will not go away. Just like Direct to Garment printing has not gone away. DTG has been distilled down to what works best for it, which is print on demand / crazy quick turns with "lower volumes". Hence all the 750k+ machines that are designed to do multiple forms of Direct to Garment printing. Direct to Film will improve in hand feel over time. But it WILL NOT replace screen printing.
@@colinhuggins6164 I think I needed to hear that today, haha. I also just love the screen print method and as far as I know some forms of it date back to Ancient Chinese methods thousands of years ago. That makes sense that the pillow could cause some hiccups-the only thing I wonder is if there might be two additional minor issues not having something in between the shirt layers (full disclaimer I haven’t dabbled in the DTF world yet so pardon if none of this applies or matters): 1. Let’s say you have an instance that is unavoidable that you have a crease indent coming from the seam below (say you have a nape of neck transfer and the collar from the underside causes the indent, or a sleeve print where the underside crease comes through) 2. This usually won’t be the case but when I used to heat press a plastisol print and it was a thinner garment material I actually had the inside of the shirt stick to itself if there was a print on the other side. Perhaps it could be a case but might be unlikely that would happen with the DTF adhesion. Thanks again as always and for the follow up discussion as well!
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Thanks for this Colin! Do you ever use a heat press pillow to prevent those crease marks along the edges?
I’m also an old school screen printer. I’ve been warned about DTF and probably digital hybrid printing taking over but do you see this as the case or do you anticipate screen print will have longevity and continue to be around?
Hey! I have used the pillow in the past. It works, but not as well as everyone "hopes" it will work. I mostly dislike it for causing the occasional hiccup/wrinkle in the transfer or causing the transfer to shift a little.
Direct to Film Printing - in whatever form it takes, will not go away. Just like Direct to Garment printing has not gone away. DTG has been distilled down to what works best for it, which is print on demand / crazy quick turns with "lower volumes". Hence all the 750k+ machines that are designed to do multiple forms of Direct to Garment printing.
Direct to Film will improve in hand feel over time. But it WILL NOT replace screen printing.
@@colinhuggins6164 I think I needed to hear that today, haha. I also just love the screen print method and as far as I know some forms of it date back to Ancient Chinese methods thousands of years ago.
That makes sense that the pillow could cause some hiccups-the only thing I wonder is if there might be two additional minor issues not having something in between the shirt layers (full disclaimer I haven’t dabbled in the DTF world yet so pardon if none of this applies or matters):
1. Let’s say you have an instance that is unavoidable that you have a crease indent coming from the seam below (say you have a nape of neck transfer and the collar from the underside causes the indent, or a sleeve print where the underside crease comes through)
2. This usually won’t be the case but when I used to heat press a plastisol print and it was a thinner garment material I actually had the inside of the shirt stick to itself if there was a print on the other side. Perhaps it could be a case but might be unlikely that would happen with the DTF adhesion.
Thanks again as always and for the follow up discussion as well!