The Pretreatment Dance – What is the Right Amount of DTG Pretreatment? A very often asked question in Direct To Garment printing is “How much pretreatment do I need to apply to the shirt?”. For the new DTG printer (and those who’ve printed for a while) this is a very […]
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100% Red Polyester Printing with Image Armor ULTRA PRINTING 100% POLYESTER WITH IMAGE ARMOR ULTRA We’ve been hearing a lot lately about this pretreatment, this ink, etc. that will allow us to print on polyester fabrics. For the last 4 years Image Armor pretreatments have allowed this to be accomplished. […]
Direct To Garment Tips & Tricks – Pretreatment Tube Holder Most people just open their pretreatment container, stick the supply tube for the PT machine into the container and forget about it. But often times these tubes are curled and will want to “pop” or flop out of the pretreatment […]
What do these two items have in common? Vanilla Frosting and a DTG print? The answer might surprise you. 9 Million metric tons of it are produced each year (estimated) It can be found in hydro-thermal veins It is odorless The exterior of the Saturn V rocket was covered in […]
We wanted to show you EXACTLY why you want to use the RTP Apparel garments that utilize our Image Armor pretreatment technology. This is especially true for a white T-Shirt. We’ve heard from many DTG’ers the question – “Why pay more, or a premium, for a white T-Shirt when you can purchase […]
Over the past several months we have been testing the Image Armor ULTRA with Brother’s white OEM ink. We wanted to present our findings with the industry. In the past, we really did not effectively endorse using our Image Armor ULTRA dark shirt pretreatment with Brother OEM inks. However, in our […]
WHITE INK PRINTING ON BLACK 100% POLYESTER – FLASHBACK THURSDAY Many people have been asking about white ink printing on black polyester. This is not really new as Image Armor posted this article over a year ago on our webpage. We’ve been printing white ink on black polyester for well […]
UPDATE: We have been continuing the wash testing of the Epson F2000 OEM inks printed on a 100% polyester white shirt. The left side of the shirt had been pretreated with Image Armor LIGHT Shirt Formula. The shirt was then printed with original Epson OEM inks. As you can see in the image to […]
Printing 100% Polyester Shirts with the Epson F2000 DTG Printer Printing on 100% polyester fabrics has always been problematic. The colors are not vibrant, the image clarity is fuzzy due to bleeding, and the wash durability is not the best. There have not been many options for the Epson F2000 DTG […]
NOTE: This is a re-post of an article we posted in January of 2016. We get a lot of inquires about this, so we thought it prudent to repost this article for everyone’s knowledge base. We often get asked how long can I pretreat a shirt and then leave it […]