AnaJet, Costa Mesa, Calif., now offers pretreated black shirts in a variety of sizes.
For busy apparel printers, factory pretreated shirts offer a big time savings and allow for more consistent results due to professional application of the pretreatment solution, according to the company.
Pretreated shirts do not let whites soak into the fabric, thus allowing the white color and any other color application on top of the white to stand out better. Printing on apparel that has been pretreated, particularly darker colored items where pretreating is required, has long been the industry standard to get crisp, bright, professional results every time. With the launch of pretreated shirts, busy garment printers can bypass that entire first step and speed up production, while maintaining high product quality, according to the company.
For years, AnaJet has offered a pretreatment kit and instructions on how to properly pretreat garments to prepare them for optimal printing success. The process, which involves mixing chemicals and maintaining spray gun equipment, can be time consuming and messy.
“Customers have always appreciated that we offered free training on the pretreating process and our do-it-yourself kit remains very popular, but many customers have been asking for a pretreated product like this to make life easier and we are happy to deliver it,” says Tod Farmer, vice president of operations at AnaJet.
The shirts are now available in black in bundles of 12 on the AnaJet website. The standard pretreated shirts come with the pretreated area (15 ½” x 19”) on the front. Other pretreatment locations (back or sleeves), as well as additional colors and sizes, can be custom ordered by phone.
AnaJet also recently announced the launch of a new, lower-cost ink called SPECTRUM. It is compatible with existing mPower printers and the cartridges are the same size as PowerBright ink. PowerBright or SPECTRUM inks can be switched out without flushing the system beforehand.
Additionally, AnaJet recently released a firmware 3.0 and AnaRIP 3.0 software update for mPower printers. These updates include new networking features, as well as an updated ICC profile for improved ink saturation and smoother gradients. For a complete list of improvements in this important update and instructions on how to download and install, please visit the company support page.
For more information, visit anajet.com. — L.M.
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