Great Garment Graphics, St. Clair Shores, Mich., is offering a new video with tips on how to capture more vacation and travel business. Presented by Andy Curtiss, a sales rep for Transfer Express, the video, “How To Create Tourist Sales,” discusses the many types of...
Image Armor LLC, New Philadelphia, Ohio, has introduced a new direct-to-garment printing pretreatment solution for dark shirts. The new formulation is easier to apply and easier on pretreatment machines, and increases printability and improves wash fastness up to 50%...
According to Colombia’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the country’s textile and apparel exports have demonstrated a compound growth rate of 4% since 1991. Over the past 22 years, the total value of textile exports has increased to $342 million, while the...
Madeira USA, Laconia, N.H., is bringing its Prof. T. H. Read character to life with a new blog. Industry veteran Arnie Korfine will lead the new blog, acting as the live voice of the company’s Prof. T. H. Read, a caricature that has been around for nearly 20 years....
Sportsman Cap & Bag, Kansas City, Mo., has launched a new mobile site: sportsmancaps.com. The website now automatically detects mobile devices and displays a simplified interface. The site allows shoppers to view products without logging in and offers robust...
InkCups Now Corp., Danvers, Mass., is offering customers the opportunity to try its Sapphire inks with no-charge ink adhesion testing, ink sample kit and consultation. Sapphire ink offers a wide range of colors, superb adhesion capabilities, compliance with United...
Eco-friendly, USA-made apparel brand Dirtball, Hickory, N.C., has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its new Green Jean — an American-made jean made from recycled water bottles and cotton. Each pair of the jeans contains between eight to 10 water bottles and all the...
The holidays are just around the corner and printers are stocking up on their holiday colors of green, red and snowy white. Here are some tips for making your prints stand out from the crowd: Instead of using a regular white, try one that is extra bright. Special...
Jennifer Cox, president of the National Network of Embroidery Professionals (NNEP), has been nominated for a 2013 Small Business Influencer Award in the leaders category. The Small Business Influencer Awards honor individuals who are influential to small businesses in...
In responding to the various online forums, I am finding that one of the biggest topics in question is puffy letters. In general, people want to know how to achieve the look and how to address the problems that doing so causes during production. The goal is to give...
The ever-changing nature of apparel fashion trends has forced apparel manufacturers to consider new and different fabric constructions to meet changing demands from consumers. Fabrics have diversified, moving away from conventional cotton and cotton/poly fabrics to...
Although the discipline is well over 1,900 years old, there still is no absolute or specific set of rules or guidelines to determine the best methods required to guide newcomers through the textile screen printing process. One mistake many industry newcomers make is...
