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Easy Switching Between White and Black Garments
You can print both white and black garments with one AnaJet printer. With AnaJet, you do not have to choose one or the other like other "direct to garment" printers. To print on black, just switch the rear 4 ink channels to white ink carts. Click your print program for black shirt printing. It's ready to go. When you finish black shirt priting jobs, you can easily revert back to YMCK+YMCK ink configuration for the most efficient white shirt printing.
Assess Your Business
Although black shirts are popular with some demographic groups, most digital apparel printing business is for white and light colored shirts. Typical promotional shirts, event shirts and corporate shirts are printed on light colored shirt stock. Assess your product mix, and decide how you want to operate.
For most shops, the most efficient way is to install all color cartridges for YMCK+YMCK configuration. For occasional black shirt jobs, temporarily install four white ink cartridges.
If you have a substantial amount of black shirt printing business, keep the printer in the YMCK+WWWW configuration at all times. AnaJet’s high ink flow rate will allow you to always print in a single pass.
If you are not familiar with black shirt printing process, read the following.
A Primer On Black Garment Printing
In today’s technology, black garment printing in general involves three step process, regardless the printing method or printer used.
-Step one is the pretreatment of garments to make it white ink receptive. It's a simple spary of pretreatment liquid on the printing area, but it holds the key to a successful black shirt printing. Learn the recommended process and strictly adhere to it.
-Step two is printing with white ink to provide an undercoat where the colored inks will be applied. Many printers have problems with ink flow of white inks. Evaluate the printer carefully to make certain your chosen brand has good white ink flow.
- The final step is actual printing of the image with colored inks over the white undercoat.
This three step process is common with all dark garment printers, regardless it is digital or conventional screen printing. The three step process of course increases the printing time considerably compared to ahite shirt printing where the pretreatment and white ink undercoating are not needed.
Assess the Efficiency of the Printers
"Direct to Garment" inkjet printer makers usually assign half of the available printhead capacity to white ink printing, reducing the color ink nozzles to half. As a result, the color ink saturation suffers, often requiring multiple passes of color ink printing.
The combined effect of the 3-step process and lower color ink saturation increase the total printing time per garment significantly, slowing down the production rates.
The Efficiency of AnaJet 125
With a common "Direct to Garment" printer, you must choose the printer to be a white shirt only machine, or a black-and-white shirt machine. The black-and-white shirt machine of course slows down the production rates for all shirts. No such problem exists with AnaJet printers. With AnaJet, you can easily switch back and forth between white shirt and black shirt printing modes, without the loss of maximum efficiency. It is an added advantage of AnaJet engineering.
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