The Importance of DTF Supplies in Achieving High-Quality Printing
Sometimes, it is easy for print business owners or investors to only focus on the DTF printing equipment itself. However, to complete high quality T-Shirt Printing or achieve efficient and high-yield production, DTF supplies need more attention. For example, high quality DTF hot melt powder makes clothing patterns more waterproof and achieves better abrasion resistance. In addition to making printing look better, the high-purity ink also keeps the DTF printer’s print head running efficiently — in other words, it doesn’t cause print heads to be clogged, otherwise you might have to stop the printer to fix, which obviously affects the efficiency of the production line and increases costs.
DTF Supplies – DTF Ink
DTF ink is a water-based pigment ink that is more resistant to light, moisture, and oxidation (including ozone), which explains why it can make prints last longer on clothes. As a result, the quality of DTF ink has a direct impact on the printing results.
Features of High-purity, high-quality DTF ink:
Non-clogging nozzle: at room temperature, with the machine automatically moisturize or manually moisturize, you can achieve downtime 24 hours without drying, not easy to block the printhead, improve the efficiency of the printer.
Less dosage: DTF ink compared with ordinary ink, you can play 10-20% more area, the dosage is more economical, more cost savings.
High color reproduction: DTF ink can print more colors, the printing effect is full of color, true to restore the design, to achieve the real-world level printing effect.
Clear edges: DTF ink can print clear pattern edges, so that the shaking powder more clean and not sticky powder, not easy to produce glue edge.
Soft touch: DTF ink using imported raw materials, print out the pattern is more vivid and soft, water resistance is higher.
White ink is a special kind of ink, because there is titanium dioxide in white ink and titanium dioxide is easy to precipitate, resulting in nozzle blockage, therefore ink suppliers spent a lot of time and energy on the research and development of white ink. Surprisingly, the precipitation-free white ink is launched on the current market. SUBLISTAR launched a new product of precipitation-free white ink at the latest press conference, which requires no filtration, no stirring and no circulation device. It has high fluency and is not easy to cause blockage.
DTF Supplies – DTF Hot Melt Powder
At present, there are many types of hot melt powder on the market in order to meet customers’ different production needs such as TPU hot melt powder.
We recommend the use of high-purity TPU hot melt powder with DTF printer to achieve perfect hot stamping images. It is 100% TPU powder, because the composition is clean with no impurities added and has better tensile performance, clean powder treatment , non-stick powder, fresh hot printing images, clear small character lines with no shadow, scratch resistance, color fading resistance.
As an essential part of the DTF printing process, until the end of 2023, DTF powder shaker is still required. Besides consider the DTF hot melt powder, it’s recommended to consider the improving DTF powder shaker as well.
In 2024, more eco-friendly powder shaker will launch. The new powder shaking solution integrates smoke purifier which automatically absorbs and processes the smoke directly, which is green and pollution-free. In addition, the integrated permanent smoke purifier is equipped with built-in permanent purification filter, no need to replace. This cutting-edge feature eliminates the need for costly replacements, thus saving you both time and investment.
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DTF Consumables – PET Film or Transfer Paper
DTF printing is printed on PET film (also called DTF Transfer Film) or transfer paper by printer, and then transferred to clothes by hot pressing. PET printing film is divided into single-sided coating film and double-sided coating film, can also be classified into cold tear film, warm tear film and hot tear film. High quality DTF transfer PET material film is characterized by even double-sided coating treatment, strong ink absorption, accurate matching, not easy to slip, clean powder shaking, good release effect, glue baking uniformity, high wash resistance, soft feel, full elasticity, and no cracking. Transfer film/paper hot stamping temperature is 130-160℃, Duration is 8-15s.
Diversified facial effects transfer film is also launched to meet customers’ personalized needs. For example: luminous film, dazzling reflective film, hot flash film, gold film, temperature change film, breathable film, etc. The effects are in accordance with the names, for example, the luminous film can make the image glow in the dark environment. The dazzling reflective film can show the colorful neon dazzling effect under the flashlight. The hot gold film can show the texture of hot gold, the temperature change film can cause the image to present different color effects at different temperatures. The Breathable film can ensure the hot painting area breathable without gelatinous feeling.
In 2024, the innovation of DTF film will bring not only metallic gold film, metallic silver film, metallic interstellar silver film, but will also release more DTF film types to the market to satisfy the endless customer needs.