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Mixing it up with Mooch and Amaya Jules Nicholas, of Mooch Transfer & Screen Printers, explains how to print a full- colour design on a black T-shirt using the Polyprint hybrid system… for a quarter of the price of a DTG print

F or the past three months, Jules Nicholas, direc- tor of Mooch, has been trialling Polyprint’s hybrid

system, which is based on the Texjet DTG printer. We asked Jules and Julian Wright, sales director of Amaya Sales UK – distributors of the system in the UK – to create a detailed step-by-step guide to how Mooch produces its stunning hybrid prints. Hybrid systems are used by decorators as a way of achiev- ing cheaper multi-coloured prints on dark garments, and more prints per hour, compared with a standalone di- rect-to-garment (DTG) printer. This is achieved by screen