Pretty cool hack. Commericial DTGs run $5000-10,000 - Here's a cool hack involving a $6 thriftshop printer and a little materiel.



Ed

Very cool. Be nice to see this hack translate into a line of significantly cheaper, commercially-available printers. DIY tees and such for a fraction of the coin would be pretty liberating.

You still need good stuff image-wise but this is a step in the right direction.

I tend to think of printers as magical machines — not infrequently black magic but magic never-the-less. That hack is truly amazing!

Well, for dot/line converted continuous tone stuff, you're pretty much stuck with this, dye sublimation, etc, and the impressions per hour are pretty low, so then that means you go Chinese, single-to-double-digit runs, single-digit price ( complete, shirt and printing, and a few cents elective for a branded label ), but then you're talking a bunch of wasteful ecosystems, a tremendous amount of waste due to the cost-efficiency mysteries of the Convolution portion of the Big Cs of modern capitalism, Capital and Convolution ( Capital, Specialization, Convolution ), and you've done nothing locally.

So, if you've a conscience about local work ( versus overseas ), reducing waste and ecosystems, buck stops here quality control, a local 'just in time' production machinery, etc, you're stuck with $10,000X printers, whereas this hack you're talking $30X printers to obtain decent number of impressions per hour.

So, yeah, I'd say it's a pretty big deal.

Ed