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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: Scobey Peterman on February 19, 2019, 11:38:54 AM

Title: QUESTION
Post by: Scobey Peterman on February 19, 2019, 11:38:54 AM

What was the name of the company that made all of those Direct Print machine and then when broke??

Title: Re: QUESTION
Post by: Frog on February 19, 2019, 11:42:59 AM

You may be thinking of Fast T-Jet, though I bet that since the advent of this technology, they're not the only one

Title: Re: QUESTION
Post by: Scobey Peterman on February 21, 2019, 09:54:06 AM

Sounds right.  A direct print onto white shirts type of machine.

Title: Re: QUESTION
Post by: 3Deep on February 21, 2019, 10:06:39 AM

That T-jet took Scott for a loop, but his hard lesson helped others

Title: Re: QUESTION
Post by: Frog on February 21, 2019, 10:23:42 AM

Quote from: Scobey Peterman on February 21, 2019, 09:54:06 AM

Sounds right.  A direct print onto white shirts type of machine.

Actually, if I remember correctly, it was the dive into the machines that had white ink capability to print onto dark shirts that really sealed his doom. This was bleeding edge technology at the time.
Another one of the mitigating factors was selling the pie-in-the-sky dream of turn-key operations for entry level entrepreneurs with no experience and limited mechanical abilities, and no back-up when the single machine they owned developed something as common as a head clog. (something not unheard of with inkjet printers)