
If it doesn’t take off you won’t have lost much, but if it does, the profits can be reinvested in more sophisticated printers for greater productivity and extended functions. For an existing printing company that’s used to handling image files and organising workloads, it can be a useful bolt-on business to offer to existing clients or online to B2C customers. Simon Eccles looks into what could be a lucrative sideline while commercial print recoversĭigital presses are usually reasonably (and sometimes very) substantial investments, but around £3000 is enough to get you started with an entry-level CMYK single-garment pigment printer or dye sublimation heat transfer system, while £10,000 to £20,000 gets you a really good and productive setup.


One of the lesser miracles of digital printing is how easy it is to get into small scale and bespoke garment printing.
