Brother builds garment printers that cover direct-to-garment and direct-to-film.Dynagraph puts them on your floor and keeps them running.
Polyester, hi-vis and coated workwear will not take direct ink. A printed film transfer will,and it survives industrial laundering.
When the order book moves past three hundred pieces a day, the frame around the print head is what decides your uptime.
Cotton takes water-based pigment ink directly. The print sits in thefabric, so the hand stays soft and the garment still feels like agarment.
Polyester will not hold DTG ink reliably and dye migration turnswhites pink. A printed film transfer bonds to the surface and survivesthe wash.
Blends behave unpredictably garment to garment. Film gives you oneconsistent result across the whole order instead of chasingpretreatment settings.
Hi-vis, ripstop and coated workwear are synthetic and abrasive.A pressed film transfer holds through industrial laundering where directink will not.
Full-back and all-over graphics run past the platen on most jobs. Filmlets you print large and press in position, including across seams andhems.
Ganging many small designs onto one sheet is the cheapest way toserve high-mix, low-quantity orders. Print sheets ahead, press themas the orders land.
Caps, bag gussets and panels cannot be laid flat on a platen. Atransfer goes anywhere a heat press can reach.
Brother has been building garment printers since 2005 and makes the heads,the inks and the software itself. That is why the colour holds from the first shirt of a runto the last one. Pick the frame that matches your volume the ink chemistry and theworkflow stay the same.
One compact machine that switches between direct-to-garment and cut-sheet direct-to-film. Cotton in the morning, polyester transfers in the afternoon, no second printer and no second operator to train.
The workhorse for shops where direct-to-garment is the revenue line rather than a side offer. Bulk ink supply in a small footprint, built to run continuously through a full shift without babysitting.
Brother’s industrial frame: steel chassis, servo-driven screw platen, sixteen ink channels, degassing and filtering on the bulk supply, and a maintenance station made to hold a machine open across multiple shifts.
Model variants and regional availability are confirmed at quotation. Ask us about the GTX300NC high-speed configuration and the GTX600 Extra Colors gamut option.
Neither method wins outright. They fail in different places, and the shops that makemoney run both sending each job to whichever line costs less to finish.
Neither method wins outright. They fail in different places, and the shops that makemoney run both sending each job to whichever line costs less to finish.
The printer is rarely what limits a garment shop. Heat, handling and floor space are.Both methods below are described as they actually run, with the temperaturesand dwell times you would plan a layout around.
On a dark cotton tee, pretreatment comes first. A liquid is applied by spray unit or automatic applicator and dried under a press; skip it and the white underbase sinks into the fibre, taking every colour above it down to grey. The garment then goes on the platen and the machine lays white and colour down, in a single head pass on the modes that support it.
Curing is the step people underestimate. A conveyor oven at 160 °C for 3 min 30 s does it, or a heat press at 180 °C for 35 s if you are working at low volume and would rather not give up the floor area. After that the garment folds and ships. There is no film to buy, no powder to manage and nothing to throw away, which is why direct ink stays the cheaper route on cotton once you have absorbed the pretreatment cost.
The constraint is throughput per garment. One piece occupies the platen at a time, and every dark garment carries a pretreatment cycle in front of it. That is fine at fifty shirts a day and it is what pushes shops toward a second machine at three hundred.
Direct-to-film takes the printing off the garment entirely. Colour and white go down on cut-sheet PET film, adhesive powder is applied and the excess shaken off, and the sheet cures at roughly 160 °C for 5 min. The finished transfer is pressed to the garment at about 150 °C for 20 s, peeled, then pressed again for a further twenty seconds to set the surface.
That is more stations than direct-to-garment, and it is the honest cost of the method. What you buy in return is separation: printing and pressing no longer have to happen on the same day, or by the same person. Sheets can be produced during a quiet week and held, then pressed the morning an order lands. One sheet can carry a dozen unrelated designs for a dozen unrelated customers.
It is also the only route to a large part of the regional order book. Polyester sportswear, hi-vis and coated workwear will not take direct ink reliably, and caps, bag gussets and panels never lie flat on a platen. A transfer reaches anywhere a heat press can close.
The equipment is one part of it. Consumables have to be in regional stock, engineers have to be trained on the machine they are sent to, and commissioning has to be done on your garments rather than a demo shirt. That is the part Dynagraph carries.
Thirty-five field service engineers across the region, trained on the equipment they carry parts for. Response is a visit, not a ticket number.
Innobella inks, pretreatment, PET film, adhesive powder and platens held regionally. You do not lose a week to an airfreight approval.
Commissioning, colour profiling for your garment mix, and operator training on your own product — not a demo shirt from a brochure.
Pretreatment units, tunnel dryers, heat presses, RIP and cutting. Dynagraph supplies the whole finishing chain, so one supplier owns the result.
Dynagraph has supplied the region’s printing industry for over seventy years. Sales,installation, consumables and field service run out of Dubai and through ourown entities across the Gulf and the Levant — so wherever you produce, the engineerwho commissions the machine is the one who comes back to it.
Most decorators do, eventually. Cotton retail work rewards direct-to-garment because of the hand feel; corporate uniform, sportswear and workwear are largely polyester and blends, where direct-to-film is the reliable answer. The GTX300 lets you cover both from a single machine while you find out where your order mix actually sits, then you scale whichever side grows
Screen printing still wins on long runs of one design in few colours, because the screen cost is spread over thousands of pieces. Digital wins the moment runs get short, designs get numerous, or the artwork is full colour and photographic there are no screens, no setup and no minimum. Shops that keep both send each job to the cheaper line rather than replacing one with the other.
Dark garments need a pretreatment liquid applied and dried before the white underbase is printed, otherwise the white sinks into the fibre. It can be done manually with a spray unit or automatically with a pretreatment machine. It is a real consumable and a real step, and it is the main reason direct-to-film is often faster on dark polyester.
White pigment ink settles, which is why Brother’s machines circulate and agitate it automatically. The GTX300 runs continuous white ink circulation and the GTX600 carries degassing and agitation on the bulk supply. Follow the shutdown procedure we hand over at commissioning and an extended closure is not a problem.
The GTX300 occupies roughly 1.3 by 1.7 metres and draws under 180 W while printing, so a standard single-phase supply is sufficient for the printer itself. Plan the surrounding stations pretreatment, dryer or conveyor oven, heat press and a cooling and folding bench as these usually decide the layout rather than the printer.
Send us the garment and the artwork and we will print it. Seeing your own fabric, your own colours and your own wash test is the only demonstration worth having.
Tell us what you decorate today and what you keep turning away. We will come back with a method, a machine, the consumables it needs and what it costs to run per piece.
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