Every custom T-shirt screen printer, embroidery decorator or heat press decorator knows the feeling of hitting a plateau. Whether it’s sales stagnation, a sub-optimal return-on-investment (ROI) on your current production equipment or simply feeling creatively stuck,...
New service designed to ‘empower’ customer apparel decorators and entrepreneurs in general with seamless custom apparel fulfillment Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Ninja Transfers, a leader in the custom DTF (direct-to-film) heat transfer industry, has announced the...
Commercial custom apparel community helps drive accountability, set business goals Fabric, a vetted membership community for print shop owners, is now accepting applications for its second cohort of members, launching in July. Founded by Bruce Ackerman (Printavo),...
Free online tool helps measure and reduce the environmental footprint of blank apparel to aid companies with their ecological transition Glimpact, a platform designed to analyze the overall systemic environmental impact of products and organizations, has launched...
Hanover, Pennsylvania-based Legacy, a subsidiary of L2 Brands, is not just a well-established name in premium headwear manufacturing, but a leading supplier to Hope Academy—a bilingual Spanish English school for children in Guatemala and Pennsylvania. Through this...
GroupeSTAHL, a global leader and original innovator in heat printing technology since 1932, has announced the 100-percent acquisition of TKO Sales, Inc., what it describes as a rising force in heat transfer manufacturing based in Pompano Beach, Florida, with...
A record-setting Impressions Expo, cutting edge machine embroidery and yet more direct-to-film (DTF) tech Alas, for those hoping for “less interesting times” following the turmoil of the past few years, the world, for better or worse, remains as “interesting” as ever....
While contemplating this month’s editorial, I came across the following pair of African proverbs, both of which couldn’t be more applicable to not one but two of the articles published in our May-June issue. The first, “Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both...
A little over a year ago, we sat down with Michael “Ninja Mike” Nemeroff, CEO of custom direct-to-film (DTF) transfer provider Ninja Transfers (ninjatransfers.com), in order to gain some insight into the state of this fast-moving sector of the decorated-apparel...
Screen printers, embroiderers and heat press decorators need not despair in the face of what look to be the continuing economic headwinds Between the threat of rising inflation, uncertain economic forecasts and the increasing effects of the Trump-era tariffs,...
Custom transfer specialist’s move intended to support customers during a time of increased costs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Ninja Transfers, a leading provider of direct-to-film (DTF) transfers for the custom apparel and merch sectors, has announced it will not...
A few months ago, my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. (I know, crazy! How time flies!) I mention this because a decades-old piece of decorated apparel ended up playing an integral part in the celebratory dinner I arranged for the occasion. The two...
