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  • DTF Halftone Tool for Black Apparel Printing

    DTF Halftone Tool for Black Apparel Printing Black shirts are the best sellers in a lot of print shops, and they’re also where DTF prep problems are easiest to see. Every halo, hazy shadow, and stiff patch of underbase stands out on dark fabric. A DTF halftone tool built for black apparel fixes most of…

  • Fix Semi-Transparent Pixels for DTF

    Semi-Transparent Pixels in DTF: What They Are and How to Remove Them Semi-transparent pixels are the “maybe” of the image world, and DTF printers don’t do maybe. Every pixel in your file either gets ink, white underbase, and powder, or it doesn’t. Pixels that are partly see-through end up as halos, hazy patches, and specks…

  • White Haze on DTF Prints

    White Haze on DTF Prints: What Causes It and How to Fix It You press the transfer, peel the film, and there it is: a faint white outline around the design, like someone traced it with chalk. White haze on DTF prints is one of the most common complaints in the business, and on a…

  • Photoshop Actions for DTF

    Photoshop Actions for DTF: Where They Help and Where They Break Photoshop actions for DTF can save you a lot of clicking. An action records a series of steps, like a color knockout, a halftone conversion, and an alpha cleanup, and then replays them on any file with one click. The catch is that an…

  • Best DTF Halftone Software

    Halftone Software for DTF: Why a DTF-Specific Tool Beats Photoshop The best halftone software for DTF is something that is built specifically for DTF prep, and it beats doing the job by hand in Photoshop almost every time. Here’s why. Your transfer is only as good as the file you send to the printer. Art…