With the start of summer, it’s time for apparel decorators and the screen printing, embroidery, heat pressing and digital decorating equipment and materials suppliers of the world to start thinking seriously about the 2025 Impressions Expo in Dallas, Texas. Keep an...
Registration is now open for Impressions Expo Dallas, set to take place October 2-4, largest custom decorated apparel event in the South. Admission to this year’s Dallas expo is TOTALLY FREE if you get your registration in by June 11. Join thousands of other screen...
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...
Here we are fast approaching the mid-point of 2025. Suffice it to say, it’s been quite the year! The good news is the decorated-apparel industry has not only come through the roller coaster ride that has been the past few years, but looks to continue to do so despite...
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,...
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...
