BROTHER GTX DIRECT TO GARMENT DTG REAL WORLD REVIEW
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Thanks for the video , In JESUS'S NAME I believe I will have a full workshop like yours by mid 2022. amen
Amazing work experience
Just subscribed 🎉🎉🎉
My friend just bought this printer and we are trying to get the setting right for bright images on an 80/20 shirt. Could you please share your white and color settings? Also, any suggestions on the pretreat process?
This video deservers a lot more views. Thanks so much mate...considering picking one of these up here in South Africa
Thanks man! Hope it helps out a little with the purchase decision. If you come up with any question let me know.
how durable are those digital prints? have you personally done a quality test
I use the same machine, they are very durable!
Dude! This is incredible! I'm getting my down payment ready this month. I've been working 18hr days and married to my GT381. Time to get my life back!
Hell yeah dude! If you're buying new they sell the GTX pro which has an updated white ink head compared to this and apparently prints 10% faster again.
@@jacobxpeck Yeah, its for the GTX Pro (Pouch)! I thought that's what you had too (hard to tell). They have a promo right now if you want to upgrade lol. Either way, anything is better than the GT381! We should collab man, its good to know other homies in the community. Shoot me an email or something contact@dotinkdesign.com; www.dotinkdesign.com
Unfortunately, I purchased 4 Brother GTX. I am so disappointed
The machine functions well when it is operational, but once it breaks down, the situation becomes a nightmare. The service provided by Brother is incredibly disappointing. They charge for numerous parts under the guise of "fixing" your machine, only to later inform you that additional parts are required. They send technicians to attempt repairs, but each time, they request more parts, leading to additional charges for unnecessary components, technician time, travel expenses, and mileage.
To date, I have already paid approximately $3000, believing that the issue had been resolved. However, the machine still fails to print, and now they are demanding an additional $3000 to "fix" it. I made the mistake of relying on their services, and I caution others to be aware of this before making a purchase. Please note that my experience is personal and not intended as a recommendation.
Super disappointing to hear! I’m at 36,000 prints and haven’t had to have a technician come look at the machine at all. Exceptionally lucky. Hope your issue gets resolved soon man.
Great video mate. I just shot you an email. Keen to catch up for a yarn about this
Hi what brand / model white t shirts do you use that you don't need to pretreat? Thanx in advance
Those are AS Colour Block tee
@@jacobxpeck cool thanx
Do you know where to get white cotton shoes, like converse knock offs at wholesale price?
Hey Man, Nice video. I want to buy this GTXpro, do I need the Schulze Pretreatment machine also?
If you’re going to be printing dtg then a pre treat machine is a massive time saver, I exclusively print dtf with my machine now so don’t own a pre treat machine
Thanks so much for this video. Absolutely brilliant. So you suggest Image Armor as a pretreat?
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed video, yep we use image armor only now and have for past 8 months and love it.
im getting my gtx next week, located in ontario canada and im excited after seeing this
Hell yeah dude! Pumped for you, hope it ends up being the perfect addition to your shop!
You should make a shirt that says ‘low in compression, high in hopes’
Looked at your Website, great stuff. Do you do your own designing?
This is good stuff. I have a few more questions. Can I send you an email? Ryan
Great info! I have some follow up questions. Would you mind if I sent you an email?
Hello. I was wondering if you know if the machines can print on other fabric than what you have on the t-shorts? Such typical work clothes in the construction industry with different types of fabric. I was also wondering where you buy clothes for printing. I live in Norway, so here it is not profitable for me to shop if I am going to start with printing.
Hello! For polyester or non cotton clothing we usually use the brother machine to print a DTF which is onto transfer film with an adhesive powder and then use a heat press to press onto those types of garments
Thanks for the video, man! Very informative :)
thanks for the video.. we have operated on an ominiprint 330txplus for about 5 years now. it has been good and we have made our money on it and still do. I thihk i could rebuild the machine now i know it so well. We are at a time where we need to either buy buy another one at a super discounted price of 9k or get a new dtg printer. We have been looking at the brother gtx pro. I am trying to get an idea of how their tech support is after purchase and when things go wrong..would love to hear about your expereience. Thanks for your time
Hey man! If you’re pretty handy with digital printers I’d imagine you wouldn’t really need a tech ever. I’ve got 50k prints on mine now and I’ve never had the technition out, only major issue I’ve had is ink leaked onto a sensor for the gears in maintenance station so I pulled it out myself and cleaned it, really simple machines once you get into them.
How do the prints look after being washed a few times?
Cured properly they’ll be the same, I’ve got some that are 12 months old that I’ve worn 30+ times and still look good.
Is it possible to communicate via Whatsapp?
What problems have you had over the time you’ve owned the printer? I’m about ready to buy a used Bother GTX printer, what are the known problems.?
Wondering if GTX is good enough to handle massive orders. I own a sportswear and planning to buy just the GTX model. Is there a huge difference between just the GTX and Pro model?
Gtxpro is just updated model of the GTX. Same printer basically with just a different white print head for better white ink circulation! Id buy a gtxpro as gtx would be older stock.
hi where do you buy your wiper cleaners from ?
Thanks Bro Great Job with GTX Pro Details This Explains All Details
Is it fine letting the printer sit for a week maybe without printer. And do they have a auto clean setup in the printer or do they not get clogged like a regular dtg
Yeah totally fine, I’ve left mine to sit for a couple weeks before while away, just do a clean and good to go, has auto circulate ink
Hey,I have one question what values you put on black t-shirt it was looking amazing. Thanks
Hii! Believe is was a 7 highlight and 3 mask with a pause between white layer and colour layer. Good pretreat makes the world of difference!
Thanks for the video!!
Good information my buddy was looking into opening up a print shop I'm recommend this printer to him.
Yew thanks man!
Can you give. Maximum cost required and return on investment period
Keeping in the high traffic place is. It worth to avoid marketing hassel
What's the best printing technology to print face or picture of persons onto a T-shirt?
Depends on quantity, low quantity dtg or dtf, high quality screen print
Really enjoyed the review dude. I had the early 541 and then had the first GT782 in Europe. It was ok, but the maintenance was a pain in the ass and after ten years it finally died in lockdown. My GTX Pro arrives in the morning and I can’t wait to get it going.
Now we have inkbag with Compatible chip for Brother GTX/GTX pro/ GTX pro Bulk Printers
700ml/1.8liter/18liter capacity chip
are you interesting?
Considering between this and the Epson SureColor F2100 series. I have the Ricoh Ri Series and it's been lackluster for me and unreliable so far.
The review is much appreciated.
Please let us know cost factor profitability and supply of t shirts
Great video, Jacob! Very informative & helpful. Thanks!
It cracks me up that I keep seeing Omniprint Freejet commercials when I watch your video. I am done with shitbox printers. Anyway, I have a few questions:
1. Do you use Image Armor Ultra PT?
2. I've been reading about how the GTX wastes a lot of white ink when it's sitting around not printing, but those posts are a few years old. Has that changed, perhaps with software updates?
3. After shaking the white ink cartridges you did a white ink reload. What is that exactly? Does the GTX pull white back into the cartridge at the end of day, or is that reload pissing out the white ink in the lines?
4. How do you prevent head strikes with the GTX? Is there a laser sensor, or do you just lower the platen so the garment will fit under the lip?
5. What brand/model tunnel dryer do you have?
6. Lastly, can you recommend a strategy for properly maintaining a GTX Pro while I am building my business up to where I am printing every day?
I have a million other questions. You're LUCKY I live in the U.S. or I'd be at your shop, asking questions, until you physically threw me out!
Thanks again for the great video!
hey dude, in need your help, I have a GT3 printer, but im having problems printing, i have everything ready to print, sent it to the printer, but for some reason, just dont print, im i doing something wrong, please please please HEEEELP.... thanx
This vid sold me on the brother. What tunnel dryer do you have?
I just have a random branded Ceramic element one, just need one that has a 3.5 minute dwell time and you should be okay! Obviously forced air is ideal since water based inks but not a must.
Hells yeah! nice shout out to Image Armor!
Great review! Have you been happy with the GTX Pro that you have now? I searched for that review but didn’t find it. Cheers!
Hey mate, great vid, thanks.
Can I ask why you picked the Brother over the Epson?
Speed and proven history of large scale operations having 100k+ prints on a brother machine.
@@jacobxpeck thanks for the reply mate.
If you had the time, I would appreciate the ability to ask you one or two questions privately.
If not - thanks again for the vid and the reply 🙌🏻
Having issues with my tshirts fading after first wash. Fiber look fading. Any ideas? Thank you!
White shirts or black shirts?
Great Vid... Ink refillable??
Uses a pouch ink system and buy them from Brother directly or a reseller 😊
Thank you
We signed for our GTX pro today and are looking forward to getting started
Good choice! I just clicked over 20,000 prints still love it ☺️
Hell yeah BROTHER
Cool to see and learn how the entire process works.
Bit of effort but worth it!
Would you recommend buying out right? Or leasing?
I did 20% deposit and loan for the rest for mine, works for me since loan is about $120 a week. It’s situation dependent but paying $120 a week is easier than saving $30k to me.
I need some help with my printer can you help me please
Definitely not a full blown technician for them but what’s happening?
lol i got 2 of the same add for the same print machine while watching this vid either way love all the content
Haha hey least I’m getting some money back from them
Has anyone tried the "AA Prisma v2 Brother GTX Pro B DTG" Ink? Wondering if it's better than brother's DTG Ink.. the price absolutely is...
Hey! I haven’t used it as I live in Australia but I’m fairly sure they’d offer samples as most pretreat companies do, I’ve found once you work out the process needed for each pretreat they’re kind of similar, I’ve used brother, epson, firebird and image armor. Currently just using brother pretreat.
Hey man, great video, I’m wondering if you can help, I’ve just had some prints done from a U.K. company who I am using for drop shipping, they use a Brother gtx printer,
but I’ve had some prints back and they are really struggling to print The colour Mint green or Turquoise they are the only colours that come out really blue and dark, have you come across this problem are there any fixes for this colour gamut, in photoshop or on the printer thanks
Hey! Thanks so much, yeah we have definitely found some shades of mint green/turquoise just don’t print on the GTX, brother have a colour chart on their website you can use but will just be a bit of fine tuning in the design to get it to print correctly.
@@jacobxpeck thanks I’ll check that chart out on the site, see what I can do to figure out a replacement shade or tweak, thanks for replying too appreciate it
@@jacobxpeck this problem is with kornit too. Mint comes out faded
Thanks for this video. If anyone owned Epson based before and switched to GTX. Can you help please, how much more inks cost on GTX compared to Dupont. Whats average cost per print. maintenance wise do you have to fix as often as Epson and if so what breaks and whats cost repair, should be done by Brother tech or can be done by owner. Thanks in advance!
A converted epson printer isn’t even remotely close to the machine the brother gtx is. Ink cost is high on brother, in Australia 2X 550cc bags of white is $520. Print cost depends on print, anywhere from 10c to $5. I’ve had this almost 12 months and kept maintenance up and haven’t had any repairs, heads can be replaced by owner.
@@jacobxpeck thanks for the reply, oh wow it can go up to 5$? I guess those are for non bulk versions, I think Pro B inks cost 170$ per liter
@@jacobxpeck have you tried non oem inks or not worth it
What s the minimum number of t-shirts you have to print with a printer like this? (in a day)
Don’t have to print any per day and can let it sit, depends on your pricing, if you’re printing retail priced shirts it’ll be less, wholesale you’ll need to do more, I try not to fire it up for the day for less than 10 shirts usually.
@@jacobxpeck thank you very much
How do you make sure the shirt is secured so that the design doesn’t come out crooked or slanted on the shirt?
The platens have what they call a gripper pad so shirt doesn’t slide while in printer.
Are you still printing? Do you know the secret to make neon green and yellow pop?
Cmyk only printer won’t really make neon greeen and yellow pop, DTF printer with neon inks might be your best bet, if you have brother gtx good amount of white and turn the brightness and contrast up to 15
@@jacobxpeck thanks brother, appreciate it if you do good work Im looking for a good printer to print my artwork, I do the most realistic Hot Rod art in the world. Face book group "Pro Street Toonz Photo Transmogrified by Dono"
Hi, do you have any idea how to save white ink, I'm starting business printing and have gtx dtg printing, I usually recommend my customers to print on bright!/white shirt to save cost budget on white ink but the problems is even though I use white ink or not, the white ink still flow 😂, . That damn white ink so pricey.... I have no other choice to find more customers /rise my printing shirt to cover my cost for buying white ink, any suggestions to save white ink
Apparently the Cadlink software gives more white ink control than the brother software might be worth trying it out, believe they do a free trial
@@jacobxpeck so, the cadlink software control the auto clean and white circulation or it just same function as graphic lab?
everyone know the Brother GTX ink very expensive. if you work with the third-party ink. you worry it will clog the printhead. how to do?
In china . the 700ml brother GTX original ink around 1300RMB. around 1.8RMB/ml However 18liter GTX original ink around 12000RMB. arround 0.7RMB/ml. both are original ink, the 18liter cheaper.
However . Brother GTX422 GTX423 GTX425 only work with 700ml ink cartridge. how to use 18liter ink.
At here. i want to inform all user. we can provide 700ml ink pouches with chips. you can fill ink to our 700ml ink pouches, and work on GTX422 GTX423 GTX425 GTXpro printer.
This way. you can use save much ink cost and no need worry the ink quanlity.
Welcome you ask me about the brother GTX ink chips. 700ml ,1.8liter 18liter available.
Now we have inkbag with compatible chip for Brother GTX/GTX pro/ GTX pro Bulk Printers
700ml/1.8liter/18liter capacity chip
White, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black color available.
are you interesting?
@@equnxinsu6904 ,I'm interesting but unfortunately my gtx is broken due to white ink problem, maybe if you reply 2 year early 😁,I gonna buy it with you cause in last 2 year I tried searching cheap gtx ink, I found it but my main problem is they can't provide chip
Can you do front and back on this printer? Also, I see just large images, can you do a small image on one part of the shirt (like a pocket or business name) and then its logo in the middle or on the back? Or are all shirts just one shot images on the front?
GREAT VIDEO.. 👍👍
We are considering a GTX pro, did you test one?
They weren’t released when I bought my GTX
Incredible
What the temperature for the tunnel dryer and time? Great content btw. Picking up my GTX this weekend
170 surface temp on garment for 3 minute 15 seconds
Hi! Very interesting. We are doing manual screen printing here and are having back problems haha! do you think the digital way would be a good replacement? The look and feel of the print is similar? Thank you! :)
If you do bulk order its for sure better the screen printing and le cost
Less*
Hi just wondering how the quality is printing a white logo on a black shirt or coloured shirt? i have the opportunity to purchase a second hand GTX with low usage at a really really good price but not sure if i should go a GTX PRO as it might do white logos better?
Hey! Sorry for late reply haha. Yeah they do great white prints once you get your process dialed it’s sweet, gtx and gtx pro are basically the same, prob just has an optimized white head for circulation, but I haven’t seen much difference in print quality between the two. I’ve mostly been doing dtf printing with my gtx lately
Where are you located?
Sunshine Coast Australia man!
@jacobxpeck. What have you been using to print poly and or spandex garments? Does the firebird gen 3 work for them?
My printer is not printing white. Any ideas? Nothing at all prints on a test print. We do the cleaning of the parts. We did a super cleaning, we circulated the white lines (bye bye 50% of the white ink) please help...
Only time I’ve had the issue of dropping channels is when the exhaust ports have blocked up, get right in there with a heap of cleaning fluids, hopefully you sort the problem really soon man!
this is great content thanks for posting!
i am planning to get a gtx dtg/dtf printer , my question is how do you do the pricing per shirt you print? thanks
@@nzed316 DTF and DTG are very different per shirt cost, we don’t print dtg anymore and dtf we’re about 50c per cc of ink and sheets we use are 80c, usual large rear print and pocket logo is about 2cc to 3cc
@@jacobxpeck thank you for the super fast reply😊
@@jacobxpeck why you dont print dtg anymore?
@@nzed316 majority of what we do is black shirts with a front pocket and large rear logo so we can get both prints on one sheet opposed to if it was dtg we’d need to print and cure both sides separately therefore doubling print time. And I’ve found heat pressing both sides of a tee is about the same time as printing another full dtf transfer sheet so workflow is way easier shirts being completed with one print.
printers insane! Will have to send through some designs
Keen dude!
This is sick!
Cheers from nz just the video I needed to see before jumping in the deep end
Happy to help out man! Happy printing!
This was really helpful, thanks a lot for doing it. You still feel the same way about it I guess?
Yeah man still feel same, produces awesome products, easy to work with but consumable prices suck hahah
@@jacobxpeck lol yeah, its not cheap hey. love your designs. how much do you reckon one of the bigger one costs in ink? thanks again man
Thanks man! Ink is around 50c per CC biggest design we’ve printed for customer was 13.5cc so not terrible! Most of the death clique designs are around 6-8cc
@@jacobxpeck have you tried heat press for curing to see how it looks compared to tunnel dryer?
your advice about marketing at the end btw is bang on
I saw screens and inks over there. Lol the tired and true tho. Gotta get the digital squeege
Haha yeah I actually have an 8 colour auto now and still use the brother daily for DTF, I’m in Australia so digital squeegee is like $400k and not that many customers doing huge runs and needing full colour to make it viable.
How did the image armor go? Did you test it and would you recommend swapping?
Hey! Yeah I use image armor exclusively now, love it a lot, super easy to use! Just a bit more readily available in aus than firebird now
@@jacobxpeck I contacted the supplier and they said you have to swap between two for light and dark coloured shirts. Do you do that or just use the one?
@@nutritionco9371 I don’t pretreat white shirts, any other Colour is sweet with the ultra
Did you have any issues with the armor being to thick for the nozzle? I'm having this issue now.
Wat modal thermometer is that digital one??
I’m not even 100% sure, my girlfriend does lash extensions and had this so I stole it hahah. Upon some research it’s called a LCD hygrometer
@@jacobxpeck bro mines too!! Ima steal hers 😂😂😂
How did you get set up printing for dropshipping
do you need to pretreat the t shirts?
Need to pretreat when white ink being used, so most dark coloured shirts, we don't pretreat white tee's but some people do.
Very confusing?
Hi,
just wondering if you dilute the firebird pretreatment or just use it straight?
In Australia places sell it as a ready to print, we’ve actually changed to image armor pretreat now.
@@jacobxpeck Were you having issues with the firebird?
@@vervyerver more due to price and availability than not liking it. I do prefer the image armor now
@@jacobxpeck Great, thanks for the reply
The Firebird Pretreat doesn’t need to be diluted but if you get the actual Brother brand, it’s concentrated so it’s diluted 1:1 on darker shirts and 1:2 on lighter shirts.
Can you get the after market pre treatment in the states? Getting the machine this week. Hope your still killin it.
Heaps of aftermarket options in the states! I ended up back using brother pre treatment as availability ended up a bit annoying with aftermarket ones. 36k prints on the machine and still pumping 💪🏻💪🏻
@@jacobxpeck bro! Your killin it! Just got all the training this week. A bit overwhelming but I’m getting it. They sent a 3 gallon jug of pre treat. So I’ll be using that for awhile lol.
Our GTX is set to arrive this coming week - we've been using Ricoh Ri1000 and are SO THRILLED to make the switch
You’ll be so happy once you start printing!
How'd it go?
Киркоров класссссный. от видео голова заболела((
Subtitule in Spanish please
Hi! How loud is it?? Can you use this in a apartment?
Pretty quiet, getting it in and out would be a pain though
They finance the equipment with them?
I used a third party finance company for mine!
Nicoe
NOICE
awesome content, keen for more updates and challenges you face running your business! Would you be able to share where you sourced your printer and pre-treatment machine from? Thank you!
Hey man! Thanks so much, main challenges are enough hours in the day to get through the work at the moment haha. Printer clicked over 7000 prints the other day so still going good! Only thing I’ve changed since video is using image armor pretreat instead of firebird due to availability. Bought my printer and pretreat from GJS and use them for the supplies also.
@@jacobxpeck So good to hear man! seeing what you have been able to achieve and create is really dope! Awesome insight, if i go through them ill mention you referred me (maybe theyll give you free ink or something haha). Keen for more content !
We're about to pull the trigger on a GTX Pro on our screen printing shop, how's the ink waste with routine cleanings? And around how many prints can you do with the 700cc bags, thanks!
Great addition to a screen shop! Gtx likes being used daily as it will still waste ink on circulations etc, ink waste isn’t too bad if you’re using it regularly. Depends on the print sizes man, cmyk inks last for 1000+ depending, as doesn’t use a lot, white inks go a lot faster, say 200/300 on most fashion designs for the 2X700cc bags
Good breakdown I appreciate you
Thank you!
Do you pretreat your white shirts?
Nah no white pretreat, tee’s we use seem to hold ink well enough to keep prints nice and vibrant
Which is better GTXpro or Pro B
Depends on your business model, pro is good for shops that do lower amounts of tee’s. I’d say a pro B you’d want to be doing 250+ prints a day to warrant the additional cost
@@jacobxpeck ad say anything over 150 a day you’d be looking at Kornit or aeoon or new F3000
@@metrobar3367 for that pricing though you can own multiple GTX though, any machine issues you can be still printing with multiple machines.
@@jacobxpeck ad get f3000 50secs full tee prints .. I have a pro bulk and it’s solid but f3000 with dryer seems unbeatable 50 blk tees per hr .. gtx on average is 30secs slower
@@metrobar3367 Australia prices f3000 is like $75k + depending on warranty you buy, that’s same as 3 GTX pro haha
Hey I make replica version of your onevia in fr legends
That’s so cool!!!
@@jacobxpeck can't wait for the new livery design
Are those transparent sheets you are using for your white ink nozzle check re-usable? Any info relating to it would be helpful. Thank you!