The voice of DTF in the market is getting louder and louder, and there are certainly voices with recommendations and negative comments. When choosing this printing method, many people ask the question, why choose DTF? What good is he?
1.Suitable for a variety of materials
While direct garment printing works best on 100% cotton, DTF is suitable for many different garment materials: cotton, nylon, treated leather, polyester, 50/50 blends, and light and dark fabrics. Transfer can even be applied on different types of surfaces such as luggage, shoes and even glass, wood and metal. You can expand your inventory by using DTF to apply your designs to a variety of projects.
2.No preprocessing required
If you already own a DTG printer, you're probably very familiar with the preprocessing process (not to mention drying times). The hot melt capability applied to DTF transfer bonds the print directly to the material, which means no pretreatment is required.
3.Save white ink
DTF requires less white ink - about 40% white, while DTG printing requires 200% white. White ink is often the most expensive, because it is used more, and the pigment is titanium dioxide, so reducing the amount of white ink used for printing can save a lot of money.
4.More durable than DTG printing
There is no denying that DTG prints have a soft, almost tactile feel as the ink is applied directly to the garment. While DTF printing does not have the soft feel that DTG has, the transfer is more durable. Transfer directly to film washes and are flexible - meaning they won't crack or peel, making them ideal for frequently used items.
5.Color
DTF excels in color expression and fastness. In order to improve the color and fastness of coating direct spray application, it is often necessary to cooperate with pre-treatment and post-treatment liquids to achieve better results, and the use of hot melt powder in DTF offset heat transfer applications perfectly solves the problem of color and fastness. DTF hot-melt powder is used as a binder, so that the DTF ink and the fabric are perfectly combined, and the color expression and fastness performance after color development are very good. The color fastness problem is a very headache in the application of direct-injection coatings. By using hot melt powder as an intermediate medium, DTF ink and fabric can be well matched, which perfectly solves the long-standing color fastness problem in direct-injection printing applications.
6.Easy to use
The application of DTF is to print the ink on the thermal transfer film, then sprinkle a layer of hot melt powder on the surface of the thermal transfer film, and then develop the color by pressing; while the application of direct inkjet coating ink is directly printed on the fabric, The fabric is in the printing process, in order to achieve better color and color fastness, it is often necessary to use pre-treatment liquid and post-treatment liquid together. The process is more complicated than the DTF heat transfer process, and more professional customers are often required to complete the entire direct coating process. The DTF (offset heat transfer) process is relatively simple, and it is easy for customers to quickly grasp the process and copy and promote it.
7.Faster production process
Since you can eliminate the steps of pre-processing and drying garments, you can significantly reduce production time. That's good news for traditionally unprofitable one-off or low-volume orders.
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