What's The Difference? DTG vs UV Printing

In this video we are giving you the FULL run down of all the similarities and differences between UV Printers and DTG Printers.

We will be focusing on our Compress UV Line of printers the Mutoh 426 UF, Compress iUV600 and Compress iUV1200 and our DTG G4 & M2

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Similarities in printing mechanics:
Both DTG printers and UV printers (specifically flatbed UV printers) are inkjet printers.

They use scanning heads that traverse over a substrate depositing ink onto it. The material being printed is positioned on a bed that either transits under the scanning print head gantry or is traversed by the print head gantry.

Basically that means that either the print head moves over the top of the item being printed or the item is moved underneath the print head to create the image.

Smaller UV printers and DTG printers transit the material under the head as opposed to moving the head over the material. But there are a few exceptions.

Most DTG and small to mid-format UV printers are considered flatbed printers.

This means that they have a limited print area and work with specific materials that are loaded onto the bed – not fed by a roll like large format sign and sublimation printers.

That’s an important distinction. We’re discussing flatbed UV printers and typical DTG printers where you typically load an object(s) onto a “flat bed”, as opposed to a roll printer that prints on a roll of material that is unwound and passed under the print head.