Frequently Asked Questions (General)
Q. What kind of printing technology do Customizeshops.com printers use?
Q. Why do you call it Direct to Garment Digital Apparel Printer?
Q. What is the advantage of direct to garment digital apparel printing?
Q. Do the prints show details?
Q. How do you keep ink from bleeding on the garments?
Q. How many colors is Customizeshops.com capaable of printing?
Q. Can you print on White as well as Black garments?
Q. Will the prints withstand washing?
Q. What kind of inks are used by Customizeshops.com?
Q What kind of printing technology do customizeshops.com printers use?
A. We use the latest drop-on-demand inkjet printing technology and garment handling system, specifically designed for garment printing. It prints directly on garments using a high speed print head with 1,440 nozzles. Using variable ink drop size, the print head can jet large and small volume ink drops at an ultra high speed suitable for the specific textile material being printed
Q. Why do you call it Direct to Garment Digital (DGD) Apparel Printer?
A. In the past, some printers printed images on a transfer paper, which then was transferred to garments with a heat press. This is called heat transfer or iron-on. Our printers disperse colors by jetting multi-color inks directly onto garments, thus Direct-to-Garment Digital Apparel Printing.
Q. What is the advantage of DGD apparel printing?
A. Heat transfer, or technically dye-sublimation, can only be used on 100% polyester or on poly-cotton for less bright images. Polyester, however, is a very warm material and is not suitable for many garments such as t-shirts. The Customizeshops.com printer can print on a wide range of apparel fabrics, but images appear best on 100% cotton, poly-cotton blends. Furthermore, direct to garment printing is easier and a less costly method compared to dye-sublimation .
Q. Do the prints show details?
A. Our printers print in 720 (normal), 720x1,440 (fine) and 1,440 (super fine) dpi resolutions. At the normal resolution, all the desired details will be vividly shown. Fine and Super Fine modes can be used for even more details. This compares well with screen-printing, which prints typically at a 72~160 dpi resolution.
Q. How do you keep inks from bleeding on the garment?
A. Our printers have an ink volume test pattern generator. A test pattern printed on the textile you plan to use will show the optimal ink level so that the ink will not bleed but will still give you sufficient ink saturation for color brilliance and good washability.
Q. How many colors does AnaJet use?
A. The customizeshops printers can produce over 16 million colors, whether you print on cotton, polyester, or other materials.
Q. Can you print on White as well as Black garments?
A. Yes! You can print on white and light or pastel color garments. You can also print on black or dark colored cotton or cotton blend garments.
Q. Will the prints withstand washing?
A. Yes, with our post-printing heat treatment system. Extensive wash tests show that white shirt prints have as much durability as any screen-printed garment. Our textile ink pigments bond deeply inside the fabric fibers. Our black shirt prints will last a long time without losing white inks.
Q. What kind of ink is used?
A. Customizeshops uses inks that are water-based pigment inks developed especially for general printing on cotton and cotton blends. Important to note is that traditional screenprinting utilizes non-water based paints which contain more chemicals.
COMPUTER AND INTERNET COMMON TERMS AND DEFINTIIONS
Browser: Software used to search the WWW (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator). In the analogy of the information superhighway, the Browser is your car, the Browser window your windshield. It is the medium with which you interface or interact with the Internet.
Client: Term for the computer one uses to access the internet. The client computer requests documents from the Server computer, the latter sends a copy of the requested document, such as a web page. The client requests documents via the browser. The term is also used to refer to specific software running on the computer, as in "Customizeshops is a very good affiliate client." Directory: An organized catalog of files and subdirectories (smaller directories containing more files). Analogous to a file cabinet and its contents. Download: The process of transferring a copy of a file from a Server to a Client computer over the internet. One can download a document or a complete computer program. The Protocol used for downloading programs is FTP, for web pages, HTTP.
E-mail: Electronic mail. Yet another Protocol that facilitates the exchange of electronic notes and letters.
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions. A FAQ is a document that usually accompanies a computer program or web page and is always worth a look.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol. A standard Protocol that allows for the exchange of files from one computer to another, usually from a server to a client. GIF: Graphics Interchange Format. This is a file format developed for the storage of graphics in a computer file. GIF files contain pictures or graphics and their filenames always end in ".gif" as opposed to ".html" for web pages. GIF and JPEG are the dominant graphical file formats on the web. Hardware: The components of a computer (such as the monitor, keyboard, printer, mouse, modem) that are tangible and can be touched. Hits: As used by search sites, it refers to the number of documents that a given search request turns up. As used by Web sites it can refer to the number of visitors to a given site. Home Page: A website's first page or an individual's unique, personal page. Most pages in a website have a Link back to the home page.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language, the language used to write web pages. HTML Editor: A program that allows you to create web pages. Most HTML editors try to be WYSIWYG, thus masking the actual HTML code and providing more of a word processing-type interface. These generally are easy to use. HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol. This is the protocol used by computers to transfer web pages to one another. This is why "http" is at the beginning of every URL.
Internet: A network of interconnected computers regardless of operating system, program language or any other protocal. It is a global network without any one organization governing it. It can mean any group of inter- and intra-connected computers but "the" Internet is the largest, global expression of this phenomena.
ISP: Internet Service Provider. ISPs are companies with one or more servers that offer monthly internet access to individuals as well as web hosting for people or groups that want to put up a website.
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is a file format for the storage of graphics in a computer file. JPEG files contain pictures or graphics and their filenames always end in ".jpeg" or ".jpg" as opposed to ".html" for web pages. JPEG and GIF are the dominant graphical file formats on the web. Link: Any text or graphic on a web page that, when clicked upon with the mouse, sends the user's browser to another part of that page or to a new web page. Text links are normally blue and underlined, but in any case tend to be a different color from the regular text. Text links tend to change color after being clicked. Graphical links sometimes have a blue border around them, but usually don't. One sure way to tell if you have a link is if the cursor changes to a pointing hand icon when passed over it. Modem: An electronic device that allows your computer to exchange information with other computers over phone lines. Modems are commonly differentiated by their BPS, as in "I just got a 33.6 BPS and it's much faster than my old 14.4 BPS!"
Newsgroup: A virtual bulletin board on the internet, where users can read and post messages. There are thousands of newsgroups, all topic-specific, for every interest. Newsgroups are accessible via a web browser or newsgroup client such as NewsWatcher.
Offline: Term for when a user is not connected to the internet, as in "I know dinner is ready; I'll go offline in just a second."
Online: Term for when a user is connected to the internet, as in "Leave me alone, I'm online!"
PNG: format (pronounced “ping”) compresses images without altering grahic information as JPEG compression does. Images compressed with PNG, however, do not reduce file sizes as much as JPEG compression. PNG can be used over the internet, but it main value is for archiving files.
Protocol: A mode of communication between computers. Different types of protocols allow for different types of information exchange.
Search Engine: A keyword searching algorithm or a software package that includes a searching algorithm. It has now come to mean a program that allows you to do a keyword search on the Internet.
Server: A large, powerful computer that literally "serves" documents, such as web pages, to any client that requests them. The interconnectedness of clients and servers is what makes up the internet. The term is also used to refer to specific software running on the computer, as in "We switched from NCSA to Netscape Secure Server for our commerce account."
Software: A set of instructions for a computer. There are two kinds of software: system software and application software. System software is usually stored on a computer's hard drive until needed by the computer. Application software ('apps' for short) are more commonly known as programs. You may have called common system software by their more well-known names such as Mac OS8 or Windows '95. You know application software by more common names such as Word, Lotus 1-2-3, Norton Utilities, or with any program that you may have had some contact. Cf. hardware. Software: A set of instructions for a computer. There are two kinds of software: system software and application software. System software is usually stored on a computer's hard drive until needed by the computer. Application software ('apps' for short) are more commonly known as programs. You may have called common system software by their more well-known names such as Mac OS8 or Windows Vista. You know application software by more common names such as Word, Lotus 1-2-3, Norton Utilities, or with any program that you may have had some contact.
"http://" is the Protocol "www.smuze.com/" is the domain, and " features-of-smuzu-website.html " is the path. The "domain" is the registered name of the website. The "path" is literally the path the Server has to follow to find and retrieve the requested document, in this case, the “Features” document page on the www.smuzu.com website.
WWW: World Wide Web. The fastest-growing part of the internet, the web supports pictures and text in an easily navigated environment (a click on a "link" for example, takes the user to another site). WYSIWYG : What You See Is What You Get (pronounced "whizzy-wig"). A program that allows you to see the results of your work as you go. One example of WYSIWYG is an HTML editor that allows you to write web pages and see how they will appear in a browser as you work.
