In today’s digital age, customers are asking for more from their vendors, and looking for one stop solutions to their needs. This fact is becoming more and more evident in the Awards & Engraving industry, with customers looking for ink printed promotional products from their Award/Engraving vendors. Enter the Direct to Garment printer (DTG), which while engineered to decorate apparel, has become a proven tool for printing non-textiles.

The number one rule in marketing your decorating business is wearing your work. The second, is putting business cards in or on all of the products you embellish. Advertising, in this industry, is a word of mouth. Something as simple as picking up your child at basketball practice can lead to thousands of dollars in sales.

Have you ever had customers who wanted to get t shirts printed for a special occasion, only to be shut down by the costs that a t shirt screen printer has to charge for setup?

Have you ever had to have your customers radically adjust their t shirt artwork in order to make it a limited number of colors in order to keep the shirts affordable?

Have you ever lost a customer because you couldn’t fulfill their custom printing needs?

If you answered “yes” to any or all of these questions, then you may be the perfect candidate to add direct to garment printing to your apparel decorating business.

Digital t-shirt printers have forever changed the way that we view t-shirt decoration. Once you have decided to buy a digital t-shirt printing machine you are faced with not only a brand decision of whether you want and/or need the ability to print on dark garments. Do you buy a dtg printer that uses white ink or not?

Word spreads fast once you get your foot in the door. Once you’ve done sweat shirts for the basketball booster club, you’ll find that a basketball player also is in the band, theater or chess club, and they need shirts too.

Congratulations on your investment into a DTG Digital Garment Printer. Now it’s time to get down to making money with this exciting machine. There’s a seemingly endless number of angles you can take to be successful with your DTG, following you will find a few of these options.

The most common reason for thread pull outs on embroidery machines is improper tension. Look at the back of the design and you can determine this by the ratio of upper thread and bobbin thread showing in the back of the design. For instance, if on the back of the design you see little bobbin thread showing, then either your bobbin is too tight or the top tension is too loose.