Now, Get High-Quality Full-Color Reproduction on Apparel With Direct To Garment Printing From Bagwell Promotions
What Is Direct To Garment Printing?
Direct-to-garment Printing, or DTG for short, is a printing technology that jets eco-friendly water-based inks onto the garment to create your image. The ink is bonded onto the garment by a pretreatment layer cured in a textile dryer.
This differs from traditional silk-screening technology. Screen printing uses a plastisol ink pushed through a synthetic mesh screen by a squeegee to create your image. A unique screen must be made for each color element of your design. The individual screens are then registered and printed layer by layer onto the garment. The final step is to cure the ink in a textile dryer, which bonds it to the shirt.
Introducing the Direct To Garment Bundle
We’ve bundled our most popular shirts and apparel with Direct To Garment Printing. You get one price for the full-color printing and the shirt or garment. You provide your logo or other artwork, and we do the rest. The only additional charge is for shipping your order. With a minimum of just five pieces, this process makes it easy to get high-quality shirts or other apparel at a reasonable cost. We have over 30 of our most popular shirts from Gildan, Port & Company, Sport-Tek, Bella+Canvas, and more. There is something for everyone, from inexpensive to premium, in our Direct to Garment Printing Bundle. Utilizing the latest HD full-color digital printing with quality apparel & professional design creates a winning combination. Don’t see what you’re looking for in our bundle selection? Direct-to-Garment printing is available on almost all of our apparel.
Direct To Garment Printing On Any Item In Our Catalog
Don’t see the item you want in our Direct To Garment Bundle above? We can use Direct-to-Garment Printing on over 10,000 items of apparel in our catalog, including aprons, bandanas, belts, caps and hats, coats and jackets, ear muffs, ear bands and headbands, pants, slacks, robes, scarves, shirts, sweaters, and t-shirts. Just select your item and tell us you want Direct To Garment Printing. Note, except for items listed in our Direct to Garment bundle above, or unless otherwise noted, items in our catalog are for the apparel garment only. The decoration is extra. While most items can be Direct-to-Garment printed, some are best suited for embroidery or other decorations. Don’t hesitate to contact a customer service representative for more details.
More on Direct To Garment Printing From Wikipedia
Direct-to-garment printing (DTG) is a process of printing on textiles using specialized aqueous inkjet technology. DTG printers typically have a platen that holds the garment in a fixed position, and the print head jets or sprays the inks onto the textile. DTG typically requires that the garment be pre-treated with a PTM or Pretreatment machine, allowing for the following:
- Stronger bond between the garment fibers and the pigmented inks
- Lays down loose fibers to provide a smoother substrate
- Chemically reacts with the inks to promote drying and curing
Since this is a digital process, the print is sharper and has a higher resolution, or DPI, than traditional printing methods such as screen printing. However, unlike screen printing, DTG has no lengthy setup or clean-up process, and it can print just one shirt at minimal cost.
DTG printers use aqueous textile inks (water-based chemistry) that require a unique curing process. Since D2 inks are water-based, they work best for printing on natural fibers such as cotton, bamboo, hemp, and linen. In addition, pretreatment is typically applied to the garment before printing. The pretreatment is heat-pressed into the custom t-shirt, causing the shirt’s fibers to lie down. The pretreatment also allows the water-based inks to bond more fully to the garment. This is especially important when using white ink on dark garments.
Once the custom garment—for instance, a T-shirt—has been properly pre-treated, the shirt (or garment) is positioned onto a platen system designed to hold it in place. The shirt is then digitally printed according to the design in the printer queue.
Corporate Apparel
Bagwell Promotions has one of the largest selections of Corporate Apparel on the Internet. We offer selections from hundreds of suppliers in various styles and colors. Most can be embroidered or imprinted with your company or organization’s name or logo. We have Aprons, Bandanas, Belts, Caps and Hats, Coats and Jackets, Ear Muffs, Headbands, Pants, Slacks, Shorts, Robes, Scarfs, Shirts, Sweaters, and T-shirts. From casual to professional, we have a corporate look for your brand or company. Easy Online ordering.
