his is just an example of a Shirt Design I did for Sturgis last year, Not the highest end design, but one of those odd requested designs the client envisions, that you put together and oddly enough despite not being super excited about the actual design personally, it sells hotcakes….gotta love that.

The reason I thought I’d post it up is that was printed on a New model direct to Shirt Kornit printer (still gotta find out the model Number). A Colleague of mine oddly received it at a demonstration of a new Kornit DTG Printer model, so I thought I’d take a pic and post it up here….The print quality is amazing, and the colors are super vibrant….The hand on the print is almost that of a water based ink, or a dye-sub print, very cool… The only issue they could have improved on is- that it looks like the under base isn’t pulled back enough, meaning the red ink along the edges would’ve looked cleaner had it just printed directly to the shirt, instead of on the white under base…. but that is more of an issue with the operator or file preparer as opposed to the Kornit. A little known issue with direct to shirt, is that although you don’t have to Seperate the art, you do have to prepare the file for best results…Even with that being said the direct to shirt printing method, is evolving very nicely, and needless to say very quickly. A printer we deal with often Visual Impressions, here in Milwaukee ( www.visualimp.com ) have a Kornit DTG from a couple years back, and actually I think the quality is the same, fro the tests we’ve run in the past….They could do just as much business on that machine as their Traditional screen presses, except the traditional presses outnumber the DTG. Hopefulyy if time allows, we can post some of the comparisons, as well as a video we took of the speed of the older DTG vs the traditional 10 color Press.

L8TR
Drew