Global Direct to Garment Printers Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Direct to Garment Printers Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Direct-to-garment printing (DTG) is a process of printing on textiles using specialized aqueous ink jet technology. DTG printers typically have a platen designed to hold the garment in a fixed position, and the printer inks are jetted or sprayed onto the textile by the print head. DTG typically requires that the garment be pre-treated with a PTM or Pre-treatment machine allowing for the following:

Stronger bond between garment fibers and the pigmented inks

Lays down loose fibers to provide for a smoother substrate

Chemically reacts with the inks to promote drying and curing

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Direct to Garment Printers market finds that the global Direct to Garment Printers market reached a value of USD 329.14 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 620.95 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 11.16% during the forecast period.

In the past few years, the functions, availability and reliability of Direct to Garment Printers have been significantly improved, while the price has also declined. Recent products include increased speed, improved resolution, circular print head and improved user interface. For example, Brother’s GTX printer and Epson’s SC2100 attracted a lot of interest at ISS 2019, and plug-and-play type devices like Ricoh’s Ri100 offer low price points that promise to spread the technology beyond the garment decoration channels. the innovation of the shape and size of the platen also helps to expand the possible application range, enabling DTG printing on baby clothes, XXL-sized t-shirts, jeans, baseball caps, handbags, cushion covers and various promotional gifts.

A series of new developments also have taken place in this area, all to improve productivity, quality. These developments are common among commercial and some industrial sectors. An increasing number of store management and network support tools, as well as low-cost cloud-based ordering tools. Many of these are offered as software as a service (SaaS), enabling providers of all sizes to provide online design, web printing, fulfillment and inventory management services.

The innovation of Direct to Garment Printers products and the collection of various services will bring new development opportunities and promote the development of Direct to Garment Printers industry.

Direct to Garment Printers Market Challenges

With more and more participants joining the Direct to Garment Printers industry, enterprises in European and American countries have a complete operating system, good brand influence and certain market monopoly ability, and face middle and high-end consumers, especially in higher quality Direct to Garment Printers products. It has caused certain restrictions on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Direct to Garment Printers Market Restraints

Screenprinting technology is more suitable for solid and dynamic graphics which are simple and have no small details or superfine details. Several examples of Screenprinting are geometric design, basic symbols, shapes and basic typesetting. Screenprinting has various functions and remarkable effects. In addition, it is very cost-effective and moderately environmentally friendly. Batch orders can be completed in record time, and technological progress makes the whole process more simplified. When specialist care is used in combination with this printing method, clothing also tends to last longer. Therefore, this technology is beneficial for enterprises looking for simple but influential shirts. Screenprinting occupies a part of the market share, which limits the expansion of Direct to Garment Printers market.

Region Overview:

Geographically, North America held the largest market share – 64.47% in 2021.

Company Overview:

Kornit Digital, M&R Printing Equipment, Brother, Epson and Ricoh are the five key players in the global Direct to Garment Printers market. These companies have shown consistent growth in revenue, larger volumes of sales and a prominent presence in terms of share in the global Direct to Garment Printers market in the past 5 years.

Segmentation Overview:

Among different product types, RFU (Ready For Use) segment is anticipated to contribute the largest market share in 2027.

Application Overview:

The market's largest segment by application is the segment Garment Factory, with a market share of 68.62% in 2021.

Key Companies in the global Direct to Garment Printers market covered in Chapter 3:

Ricoh
Omniprint
Kornit Digital
Polyprint
Aeoon Technologies
Brother
M&R Printing Equipment
ROQ International
ColDesi
Epson
CNTop
SinoColor

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Direct to Garment Printers market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

HSA (High Solid Acrylic)
RFU (Ready For Use)
Others

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Direct to Garment Printers market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Garment Factory
Household
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)