Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “Personalization of garments and accessories thr ough direct-to-garment (DTG) printing isbecoming more popular. Personalization of garments is currently a labor-intensive process that requireslarge areas for the machines to be placed so that skilled operators can work around the machine s to handlethe garments and operate the machines mostly in a piecemeal fashion. Large scale DTG printing operationscan include multiple processing stages, suc h as loading, pretreatment, drying, and quality control all ofwhich are labor i ntensive.”
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