DTG (Direct to Garment)

Print digitally on T-shirts, hoodies, baby bodies and more.

DTG (Direct-to-garment), sometimes called digital printing is good for single piece printing, thus ready for on-demand production and fulfillment. DTG is suitable for all sorts of garment products including T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, baby bodies, and more.

Image format requirements

Requirement	Specification
File format	PNG
Image size	Matches printing area
Ideal resolution	300 DPI
Color regime	RGB
Alpha channel required	Yes

The Image size corresponds to the actual size of the printing palet - printing area. See chapter below.

Prepare the data for printing

Prepare artwork

Now when you know the input image requirements, you can prepare the image data. The table below shows the most used platens for many SKUs for the DTG technology.

Name	Size of the platen (inches)	Size of the printing area (millimeters)	Desc
14x16 standard men‘s platen	14x16	355,6 x 406,4	Standard
10x12 standard women‘s platen	10x12	254 x 304,8	Standard
7x8 standard kid‘s platen	7x8	177,8 x 203,2	Standard
16x21 oversize	16x21	406,4 x 533,4	Custom for selected blank articles. Ask sales specialist for offer

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DTG user manual.pdf

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Match the palet with file size

The Image size must be aligned with the size of the printing area. The example below shows the approximate location of cone artwork placed on the standard men's platen.

Mockup preview

Print data 355,6x406,4 mm image size

Send us the print data

After you complete the above-mentioned points, you are ready to send the first artwork. Sending the actual artwork and mockup preview files is done via an HTTPS link to the resource file. We download the file to our storage for further processing.

The resource file must be a publicly accessible URL. You can store your artwork and mockups on Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon AWS, or any other service but you need to send direct file URL. You can test the direct file URL by opening the resource in the private internet browser tab.