(Editor’s Note: This is the final article in a four-part series on realistic designs. Click here to view Part 3, which covered digitizing realistic animals. Click here to view Part 2, which covered digitizing realistic trees and bushes. Click here to view Part 1,...
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The Future of Script in Screen Printing
Cursive fonts simulate handwriting. These flowing strokes with the letters most often joined together are an integral part of design. With cursive writing on the way out in the school curriculum, what is the future of cursive, or script, fonts in design and print...
Brother DTG Launches Print Club
Brother Intl., Bridgewater, N.J., has launched a customer-appreciation program that provides rewards for printing using one of its DTG printers. Customers can earn different levels of VISA e-rewards, ranging from $25 to $250, based on the number of prints shown on a...
Survival Tip: Protect Your Cash Flow
Quite often businesses will fail, even during great periods of sales growth, because they didn’t protect their cash flow. In the decorated apparel industry, money-management skills are often learned on the job and through tough lessons. It just takes dealing with a...
Imprintables Offers Jersey Decorating Tips
Imprintables Warehouse, Masontown, Pa., has released an eBook entitled “Seven Tips for Decorating Jerseys Confidently.” It was developed as a way to expand the reader’s decorated apparel business, according to the company. Topics include how to get business,...
Stahls’ Offers September Discount
Stahls’, Sterling Heights, Mich., is offering 15% off CAD-CUT Hologram heat-transfer material in September. According to the company, the material adds a shiny, prism-like, iridescent finish to designs, and is compatible with 100% cotton, preshrunk cotton and...
Hanes4Education Announces Triple Rebate Promotion
Hanes and Champion, Winston-Salem, N.C., is offering a Fleece Triple Rebate promotion benefitting the Hanes4Education program. All qualified orders of Hanes and Champion printed fleece purchased from a screen printer between Sept. 1 and Oct. 31 can earn a triple-cash...
Vastex Intl. Upgrades Screen Washout Booths
Vastex Intl., Allentown, Pa., has announced its new screen washout booths have frosted back panels, screen stand-offs and added standard interior height. The height of both the VWB-3621-AC and VWB-5121-AC models is increased to 66 inches to accommodate taller screens....
Roland DGA Appoints Oransky as President
Roland DGA, Irvine, Calif., has announced Andrew Oransky as its new president. Oransky previously served as the company’s vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to that, he was director of marketing and product management. His appointment comes in a year in...
Inksoft User Raises Money for Dallas Officers
After the recent shooting that killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven others, InkSoft user Sergio Godinez, owner of local shop Versa Printing, set up a website to benefit the their families. Godinez set up a fund-raising website offering “Back The Blue”...
Dalco Releases Braille-Inscribed Flag
Dalco Athletic, Dallas, recently created a United States flag for the Kansas Braille Transcription Institute in Wichita, Kan. The flag has the Pledge of Allegiance written using black Permacad heat-transfer cutting material. Under the lettering, the pledge is repeated...
Apparel Decorators Fall Victim to Shooting
An former employee at Prairie Mountain Screening, Lockwood, Mo., recently was charged with shooting his way into the apparel-decorating shop in early August and injuring employees. The business owner and another employee were shot when the perpetrator stormed the...