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2026 III Awards – Best New Heat Press Decoration Tech: Sawgrass VersiFlex
Drawing on its more than 35 years as a supplier of dye-sublimation materials and tech, including both printers and ink, Sawgrass Technologies recently set out to address a key customer…
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2026 III Awards – Best New DTF Materials/Tech: MagicSeal
Here at Impressions, we (alas!) do not have anything in the way of any kind of lab space or testing facilities. Nonetheless, the promise of DTG Pro/MagicLine’s MagicSeal is such…
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2026 III Awards – Best New DTF System: Brown Manufacturing Stomper Yet-Tee
In a bid to take DTF automation to a whole new level, Brown Manufacturing Group’s Yet-Tee Stomper line enables what it describes as “single operator full production” of complete, ready-to-ship…
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Comfort Colors® presents Pigment Pure™: A Cleaner Dye Process For A Cleaner World
Conscious, colorful styles with less environmental impact In the world of t-shirt decoration and apparel design, the quest for earth-friendly quality and innovation is never-ending. Comfort Colors® has risen to…
2026 III Awards – Best New Screen-printing Accessory: Bluewater Labs HP-1 High Pressure Washer
Hands down, the most unpleasant job to have to do manually in any screen-printing shop is spraying down screens during reclamation. Worse yet, because it’s a job everybody hates doing,…
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2026 III Awards – Best New Screen-printing Press: DCC Copperhead Matrix Di 4.0
The folks over at DCC say their Copperhead Matrix Di 4.0 automatic screen-printing press “redefines what’s possible” in garment printing.” And they may very well have a point. For starters,…
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2026 III Awards – Best New Screen-printing Tech: Avient DMC DispenseMaster
Brand-new tech is great. Better still is the day that same brand-new tech—typically out of reach for all too many operators—becomes affordable for the “little guys” out there as well.…
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2026 III Awards – Best New Digital Decorating Tech: ROQ HYBRID PRO+
Designed for industrial environments where speed, control and consistency are critical, the ROQ HYBRID PRO+ integrates ROQ’s cutting-edge automatic screen printing with high-resolution digital decorating in a single seamless system.…
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2026 III Awards – Best New Embroidery Machine: ZSK Racer R1W
Suffice it to say the ZSK Racer R1W embroidery machine was a long time coming. Two years ago, a prototype made its debut at the 2024 Impressions Expo in Long…
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2026 III Awards – Best New Embroidery Tech: Melco SUMMIT Manager Software
All too often it doesn’t take long for a growing custom machine embroidery shop to become a pretty complicated place. Not to worry, though, to help eliminate the bottlenecks, guesswork…
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