Direct to Film or DTF is a process that transfers prints onto fabric or other substrates using a heat-press mechanism. Unlike the DTG method, which only works on cotton fabrics, the Printer DTF method can work on cotton and poly blends. DTF or Direct-to-Film printing is a way to make very high-quality, full-color digital transfers for application to fabrics of all kinds. The core advantages of direct to film and of the high volume direct to film printers that you’ll find here include:
• Wash fastness – these transfers last like screen printing
• Stretch – not only do the transfers stretch along with the fabric, it snaps back into place beautifully
• Flexibility of materials – you can apply DTF transfers to any fabric
• Very low application time – in most cases, transfer application to a t-shirt is a :15 second heat press
• VERY high speed production – between 100 large shirt front transfers per hour (55 linear feet/hour) and 300 or more large shirt front transfers per hour (up to 150 linear feet/hour)