The difference between T-shirt printer and uv flatbed printer

T-shirt printerIt is also called T-shirt printing machine, digital printing machine, direct-injection printing machine, clothes printing machine, etc. If you look at it directly from the appearance, it is easy to confuse the two. Both sides have metal platforms, machine heads, nozzles, etc. And the appearance size and the size of the uv flatbed printer are basically the same. However, the two are not universal, and the specific differences are as follows:

1. Different consumable nozzles

T-shirt printers use water-based textile inks. Most of the ink bottles are transparent white bottles. The nozzles used are mainly Epson series of water-based nozzles. There are 4720 nozzles and 5133 nozzles. Some T-shirt printing machines will also use Starlight series. Of nozzles. The uv flatbed printer uses uv ink, opaque bottle packaging, mainly in black, and some manufacturers use dark bottles such as brown. The nozzles used are mainly oily heads in the Toshiba nozzle, Seiko nozzle, Ricoh nozzle, and Konica nozzle series.

2. Different printing fields

Digital printing equipmentMainly for cotton, linen, silk, canvas, denim and other fabrics and a small amount of leather materials, uv flatbed printers are mostly made of hard plates such as glass, ceramic tiles, metal, wood or soft leather, mouse pads, and handicrafts.

3. Different drying and curing principles

The T-shirt printer uses external heating and drying+ to make the pattern adhere to the surface of the material; the uv flatbed printer uses the principle of ultraviolet light curing and solidification emitted by the uv-led lamp. Of course, there are still a small number of uv flatbed printers on the market that use mercury lamp heating to cure, but this will become less and less and will be gradually eliminated.

have to be aware of is,Cotton direct injectionPrinters and uv flatbed printers cannot be used universally, nor can they be used simply by replacing the ink system and curing system. The internal motherboard system, color software, control program, etc. are also different. When choosing, choose according to what kind of products you have.