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Nation03:
Anyone have experience with this DTF printer? I'm looking to add one for 2023. Wondering if it's worth the cost or if it's just a future PITA.

3Deep:
Just a quick glance, it looks like a soup up version of the L1800 printer, auto circulation of white a plus.... now for me it's how much you plan on doing with this machine being it's single sheet feed and not roll ( I didn't read everything on it so I might be missing things).  We have the L1800 printer and it's been a work horse for us, but we don't printer a ton of stuff per day plus it's slow not a fast production printer which is still fine with me for what we do.  If your planning on heavy production day to day bigger printer and go rolls, Homer has one that I think kicks butt for heavy production, but for light to mid work that printer might be a good choice, also check what type print heads it use and the cost, trust me your going to need a few head replacements.

Nation03:
Thanks for the info! I believe this can use a roll as well but the print speed is slow. I think it's using an Epson 1430 print head which is a little strange since i thought those have been discontinued.

I don't plan on doing crazy bulk orders with it. Just need something to handle the folks that need low quantity, high color prints. I've gotten too many requests over the years to ignore at this point so I figured it would be a good tool to have around for these types of orders. Plus it would be nice to do hats as well since I don't do embroidery this will fill that void.

zanegun08:
Not a plug, but save yourself the headache and just order from Supacolor, they have a 10 piece minimum.

I haven't seen any desktop printer that puts out great quality DTF, always leaves a lot to be desired although I'm sure it will continue to improve.

However not having to deal with a machine that clogs, and when you can get just 10 pieces from Supa in 3-4 days.

Yes you'll have a "higher cost per transfer", but no up front costs, and then you have access to a very expensive printer, with a screen print base, rather than a lower cost headache.

For 10 pieces you should be damn near retail price on your garments anyhow, $20-$25 in my opinion, any less and you are losing money unless you are using it as a "loss leader" to bring in new business or keep certain people happy.

I've done 1 piece orders for certain people that are good clients, still use Supacolor and just charge enough to cover costs.

3Deep:
@ Zanegun08 I 'm going to disagree with you on some of what you said there, I will agree that yes access to a really good printer, no clog headaches is a plus, now I don't know how high your expectations are on a DTF print is, seems very high from reading your post, but being able to do your stuff inhouse is great, and I think we've done some killer prints here with our machine.  The big plus is we've been able to knock out stuff in a few hours for customers that need 2 or 3 shirts the same day, and yes we upcharge for that, extra money that I use to let walk out the door.  I've got some of supacolors DTF prints and a few other companies samples and I think ours look just as good, but that's what I see, I'll post some of our DFT prints in a few.
@ Nation the 1430 use the same printheads as the L1800 and I think alot of other printers use those same heads in there printers not sure, but I do know about the 1430 and L1800 because I have both and the print heads interchange.

My phone pics don't do these two print justice, but they look great in person LOL

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