Direct-to-Film (DTF) vs. Screen Printing | What's the Difference?

What’s your best option?
If you need to print 10,000 1 color designs for a big brand, there’s nothing better than screen printing. But if you’re NOT, then there’s a good case to make high volume DTF Printing your technology of choice.
To see a full demo on how the Direct-to-Film printing process works, watch this video: [ Ссылка ]

Here are the biggest advantages of Direct-to-Film Printing:

- Print hundreds of transfers per hour
- Very soft hand
- Surprisingly stretchable! Okay for your most demanding fabrics
- Pennies per print. It makes short runs very realistic.
- Washes like screen print transfers and feels even BETTER over time.
- :15 second press time – TOTAL
- No set up time
- No set up costs
- Less real estate needed

The more we compare high volume DTF to other technologies the more see that a combination of products is best for MOST busy shops.
One of our favorite machine combinations is the DTF-24H2 with the DTG G4.

A DTG printer is great for when shops did to do a simple one off or want to quickly print a shirt and don't want to set up the full DTF printer.
You can learn the differences between these two printing technologies in this video: [ Ссылка ]


Screen printing is one of the oldest ways to decorate t-shirts. People who screen print describe it as more of an art work. Screens are developed with digital negative films and a special ink is squeegeed onto the shirt. Then they are sent through a tunnel dryer.

The DTF-24H2 is ColDesi's newest 2 head DTF printer that automatically, prints, adds adhesive powder, warms, and rolls up your transfers for you. It can bust out hundreds of prints in minutes.

To learn more about how it works, visit [ Ссылка ] and live chat with one of our printing pros.

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