I love techno just as much as the next guy, but it’s nice to have a break for once on a demonstration video.

Cool stuff, I’m thinking about trying to make one of these myself.

I have an Epson stylus color 875DC which ive read can have the ink counters frozen (so i can add an ink tank system on the side), but have not been able to get them to freeze. maybe that chip resetter at Frys would be a good next step/try.

I had to stop the vid because of the music, but seems cool.

I think every hackaday video should have some Bob Marley.

This seems like a great idea but how well do the inks stay on the garment? Will they fade in a few washes? Are the designs as durable as your standard issue silk screened tee-shirt? Are the paper inks used for the DIY DTG printer the same as the inks professional DTG printer?

I only ask because there seems to be a pretty big price gap between the DIY DTG printers and the professional DTG printers.

you guys rock….

thanks for posting my vid…

love your site..

jgerman

at 2:11 the printer syncs with the music =D

@McSquid
true! :)

Now, how to protect the ink from water/sweat? Bake the T-shirt? :-)

hey guys lots of info on the tshirt forums regarding the build and other builds, just in case some of you were not aware most commercial machines are based on an epson head…

the inks used are from dtginks.com they are formulated just for shirts and then heat pressed after there printed(same ink as commercial machines)

you can use ink carts or a bulk system…it will also print on dark shirts, you configure your ink carts as cmyk-wwww… lots of info on the forums

no set up time as with screen prints, digital quality prints and no limit to colors (millions…lol

this is really for some one serious about getting into the t shirt biz…at a fraction of the cost, compared to commercial machines-its the same thing using all epson firmware and a roller conveyor designed base…check out the commercial side of the forums and you will see what i mean…

thanks for the support guys
jgerman

Oh man. That is cool. I was about to have some shirts printed, but not in a hurry. Maybe I will build a direct to garment deely.

it will print white ink aswell, mentioned above…someone is not reading the post..lol!!!you have to set the ink channels up as cmyk-wwww… this is the same printer (r1900) that many commercial printers are based off,and the current standard… without mentioning there names!!!!! so basiclly it will do anything they do! white ink is more maintenance for any dtg machine..but easily manageable with proper care..

there are only two commercial companies that i know of that do noy use an epson head…

dtginks.com has great carts etc for these machines…

This is totally awesome! I’d love to build one except I’m not technically inclined so as to ad buttons to a printer’s circuit board. However, if there was the option to buy this unassembled and complete with instructions, and videos even (or without videos) I’d be all over this! I’m new to the printing business and screen printing really isn’t up my alley me, and DTG’s are just too expensive to buy. Please let me know if there’s the possibility of purchasing this unassembled with the necessary button(s) already attached to the printer’s circuit board. I could definitely take things from there and build my own DTG.

one other question using the drawer method does the drive roller simply contact bottom of drawer and roll out using just friction thanks again