Industrial Garment Printers and Industrial Sewing Machines

Read on to see what our customers have to say about the GraffiTee^™ Series!

North Texas Ink and Embroidery, located in Trenton, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas/Ft. Worth, began in 2007 as a part-time business producing t-shirts and other garments with a Brother single-head PR-600 embroidery unit. As the business began to grow, the owners, Andrew Preston and his wife Tammy, wanted to produce dark shirts in an easy, economical manner without installing a silk screen machine. Preston chose to install the new Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series garment printer in the spring of 2012.

The Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series garment printer gave them the ability to print with white ink on dark clothing, keep the customer’s designs on file for future re-orders, and help produce much more intricate and vibrant designs faster and less costly than using the screen printing method.

Preston says that Brother^™ has provided excellent customer support and that the Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series printer is intuitive and easy to use and maintain. He and his wife have gained so much more business with the Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series printer that they plan to open the business full-time in 2013.

“The Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series printer has provided my firm with the ability to produce dark shirts in an easy, economical manner with fast turnaround and create intricate and vibrant designs that are less costly than using the screen printing method,” says Preston. “Our customers are pleased that their designs are easily re-printable and we’re pleased that we can offer a high-quality method to produce these popular shirts.”

Wow Image Group specializes in full-color screen printing on apparel; direct to garment digital printing, full service embroidery, full color sign and banner service, promotional items, and full color business cards, forms and catalogs, as well as a complete graphics department. Established in 1989 in California, the company later moved to Millersburg, Ohio in 2005. Tim and Kathy Hughes, a husband and wife team who own the business, were operating silk screen equipment along with a Brother^™ GT-541 digital garment printer, which gave them the capability to print on white or light-colored shirts. When the Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series garment printer was introduced earlier this year, the Hughes’ decided that this was the right time to purchase the printer to give them the capability to print on dark shirts.

After seeing the Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series garment printer at a trade show in Columbus, OH, Tim and Kathy Hughes of WOW Image Group, chose to purchase and install the new printer in July, 2012. The Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ garment printer gave the firm the ability to print with white ink on dark clothing, keep the customer’s designs on file for future re-orders, and produce much more intricate and vibrant designs faster and less costly than using the screen printing method.

Hughes has been able to market the new Brother GraffiTee^™ Series digital garment printer by printing a prospective customer’s logo or design on a shirt and presenting it to them free-of-charge. More often than not, the prospect is so thrilled with the custom shirt that they place an order.

“By installing the Brother^™ GraffiTee^™ Series digital garment printer, we gained a new capability to offer our customers,” says Hughes. “That capability is being able to print high quality logos and intricate designs on dark shirts. The GraffiTee^™ Series printer’s production speed on smaller orders for full color prints far surpasses that of screen print. The design, the clarity, and the quality offered by the GraffiTee™ Series cannot be accomplished on a silk screen machine.”

“We’ve found that our customers are much happier producing shirts digitally on the GraffiTee^™ Series than on silk screening because digital lays down less ink,” says Hughes. “Customers say that they can breathe in their shirts. They don’t feel like they have a large amount of ink across the front of their chest.”

“When a customer brings his or her logo to our company, they are thrilled at how easy it is to reproduce it on a shirt,” says Hughes. “In the past we couldn’t produce just one shirt to show a customer what his logo would look like. It was cost-prohibitive and the quality was not there. The Brother™ GraffiTee™ Series digital garment printer gives us that capability.”