When you search for this on Google, you probably want to find a decent A3 DTF printter to start your buisness, otherwise, your probably got a Epson L1800 heads DTF printer and it can’t keep up with the growth of your business.
IF you are ready to start DTF printing, you are not just dealing with a DTF printer.
Making the decision is never a easy thing, especially for investing a machine that you do not know about it. Following things you should consider before your purchase decision:
Factors you should consider before the purchase decision
- How do you want to use the printer? Is it for business or non-commercial use
- Your budget
- Can you deal with technical issues?
For non-commercial usage, a A3 size Epson L1800 printheads printer should be fine. You can print several A3 size prints in an hour which could meet your needs in most circumstances. These small DTF printers have their advantages for small busisness owner or start ups, as L1800 heads DTF printer have lower price compare to those larger DTF printers with powder drying system. Except the price issues, placing a large DTF printers and powder drying machine is also a challenge, people prefer a desktop printers to begin their business.
After few months DTF print work, you probably have better understanding of your DTF printer. These issues you may occur on your printer.
Epson L1800 Printhead
You will struggle to find L1800 printhead replacement on the online store, as it has been a outdated printhead, Epson now replace it with a much more print speed model, L18050. It should be fine if you are a non-commercial user, but if you are business owner, there are better choices.
Actually, L1800 is not the Printhead name, it used on Epson L1800 printer and people calls it’s name the same as the printer, the manufacter of this printhead is F1730900030. By the way, XP600 printheads are removed from Epson XP600 series printers, and all of them are not original printheads, be ware of that before you purchased a XP600 printheads DTF printer. (Epson original heads called F1080-A1, not XP600 )
Although desktop DTF printers usually not expensive, but maintenance costs however, it’s not that cost-saving work. When you have to pay ＄500 for a new Epson L1800 printheads to replace your clogged printheads every 2 or 3 months, it could be a dilemma.
Your budget
L10850 printheads price is the same as L1800. But if you want to use a L108050 heads DTF printer, you should buy add-ons of Acrorip11 and other adapted parts such as waste ink tank and external ink tanks.
Technial issues
the printheads cost is one thing, the daily maintenance can be another challenge. You have to run your DTF printers every day or two to prevent the heads clog issue in the first place, no matter you have print work or not.If you forger to run your machine a few days and when you run your machine again, you will probably need to check everything for blockages, the ink tubes, the dampers the waste ink tubes. Here are several tricks will work for you.
- Do manual flushing. After several heads cleaning process, you should see significant improvements but it can take alot to clean everything up.
- Immer printhead to cleaning solution. Jet cleaning solution to cap top and soak head into cleaning solution overnight, this can help soften the blockage in the printhead channels and clear it out easily.
- Jet cleaning solution into heads directly. Remove the damper first and jet cleaning solution to heads carefully.
Anyway, you need to learn some technical issues before you get one dtf printer, some dtf printer manufacter provide Pre-sales training(normally for larger size dtf printer), you can find almost all tehnical solutions on their web, but in the most circumstances, you have to find them out on your own..
In the end
If you are a newbie for DTF printing with enough confidence to solve all technical issues you may face, try a L1800 head DTF printer. If you are a business owner and have enough space to contain a 20 inch DTF printer with heating system, you can consider to get one from China manufacturer. Bigfoot have 67 cooperative partners around the world, we provide our customers the whole DTF printing solutions and 2 years worry-free warranty.