MegaGear - DTG printing a Ph34r t3h Cut3 0n3s shirt

Most of the shirts we sell in the MegaGear store are printed on our DTG (Direct to Garment Printer). The real trick is being able to print on dark shirts - this requires putting down a thick layer of opaque white (using 4 of the 8 print heads) on shirts that are specially pre-treated) on the first pass, then going back to print CMYK color on the 2nd pass. These clips show how a PTCO shirt looks while printing.

After this the shirts are cured on a heat press, folded and sent out to customers. One of the best things about making shirts this way is that we're actually making the shirts ourselves, rather than just pulling them out of boxes printed somewhere else.

Visit http://www.megagear.com to see the complete line of Megatokyo shirts and other merchandise.

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• Megatokyo
• Megagear
• Piroko
• tshirts
• DTG

[ccantrell31]

Damn, you must have some serious cheddar in the bank cause those start at $20-30k. Sweet printers for one off shirts.

[fredrin]

@ccantrell31 this is a refurbished one, but no, they aren't cheap. It's just part of investing in your business. With what it costs to get shirts printed, and the elimination of backstock on shirts that never sold well, it works out over time for the kind of thing we do. Besides, i like making the shirts for people. it's a lot more involved than just pulling a shirt out of a box and then shipping it to someone.

[bibulb]

It hadn't hit me until now that this means that you have a jim-dandy JIT delivery system. Yay for not having to worry about what designs you have BOXES AND BOXES left over of.

[fredrin]

@bibulb Nothing more depressing than doing a print run of shirts that NOBODY WANTS. ^^;;; This way, if a design bombs, i won't end up giving boxes of shirts to a local motorcycle repair shop to use as rags. :)

[DarkenedRayne]

Just trying to get the word out for this MegaTokyo blog: megatokyo-hellyes (dot) tumblr (dot) com. W3 uNd3r574nd j00.

[TheOkoon]

cool . i like the way no one dislikeed this vid

[animefreak232]

Its such a magical process. :O!

[Peri2k]

Hi, please, can yo tell me whats the name of this printer? Thanks

[Peri2k]

Please, can you tell me the name and model of this dtg printer? thanks.

[Peri2k]

Please, can you tell me the name and model of this dtg printer? thanks.

[Peri2k]

Please, can you tellme the name and model of this dtg printer? thanks

[DurMan667]

Can I have that printer? I'll give you a dollar!

[fredrin]

@RainingBullets yep, these shirts are a lot more robust than iron-on transfers. We tested them quite a bit before we switched over to doing them this way. It was a big learning curve, but i think the quality and washability of the shirts i make these days is pretty good.