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Beginner’s Guide to Embroidery

Beginner’s Guide to Embroidery

Have you ever wished you could just wake up and know everything about embroidery? Have you wished that you could just skip all of the years of education and most of all, all of the mistakes made along the way? Well, you aren’t alone. I’m sure everyone that does...

Transfer Express Adds New Colors to Elasti Prints

Transfer Express Adds New Colors to Elasti Prints

Elasti Prints Champ Pro Numbers, offered by Transfer Express, Mentor, Ohio, are now offered in six new single-color numbers and 12 new two-color numbers. The six new single colors include Columbia blue, gray, maroon, orange, purple and Vegas gold. The new two-color...

Epson Announces Next-Gen SureColor Printer

Epson Announces Next-Gen SureColor Printer

Epson, Long Beach, Calif., has introduced a next-generation direct-to-garment (DTG) printer: the SureColor F2100. Leveraging the Epson PrecisionCore TFP printhead and UltraChrome DG garment ink technology, the SureColor F2100 achieves up to twice the speeds of the...

Organizing Your Embroidery Space

Organizing Your Embroidery Space

Have you ever walked into a friend’s house and as you looked around you thought: “Boy, that sofa would look much better on the other side of the room?” or “Why would they put the coffee table by the chair and not in front of the sofa? The positioning could just be a...

When to Hire Your First Employee

We know you are there. Sweating the details of every facet of your business because you are the sole employee. Lead salesperson, chief designer and CEO of your budding empire. But what once looked like it just might be a part time gig has now turned into a full-on...

Quality Ink Without the Price Tag

Quality Ink Without the Price Tag

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Don’t let the hype fool you. It’s not necessary to pay an excessive amount of money to get a quality product. When it comes to quality ink, what’s inside the container should speak for itself; otherwise, don’t buy it....

Epson Hosts Fourth-Annual Digital Couture Project

Epson Hosts Fourth-Annual Digital Couture Project

Epson America Inc., Long Beach, Calif., hosted its fourth-annual Epson Digital Couture Project on Feb. 6, leading up to Fashion Week in New York. 

Designers from North and Latin America leveraged Epson’s textile printing solutions to create fashion designs built...

Brother Introduces New Label Printer Series

Brother Intl. Corp., Bridgewater, N.J., has introduced new Brother QL-800 series label printers. The Brother QL-800 series addresses the need for two-color label printing in numerous industries, according to the company. The technology allows users to print red and...

SanMar Launches More Than 60 New Styles

SanMar Corp., Issaquah, Wash., recently launched more than 60 new styles for a new year of selling. New uniforming options, high-performance fabric choices and trend-right fashion basics, are all featured in the company's “January 2018 New Arrivals” catalog....

Epson, CIT Announce Partnership

Epson America, Long Beach, Calif., and CIT Direct Capital, Portsmouth, N.H., the national digital small-business lending unit of CIT Group, today announced a partnership to offer financing for commercial and digital print customers. 

This partnership will allow CIT...

InkSoft Offers BIG Idea Podcasts Recap

InkSoft Offers BIG Idea Podcasts Recap

InkSoft, Tempe, Ariz., is offering a recap of 2017’s five most downloaded episodes of its The BIG Idea podcast.

The podcast, hosted by industry veteran Marshall Atkinson and airing the second and fourth Thursday of each month, logged nearly 7,000 downloads in its...

Image Armor Names News Distribution Partner

Image Armor Names News Distribution Partner

Image Armor, New Philadelphia, Ohio, recently announced the addition of its newest distributing partner: Midwest Sign & Screen Printing Supply Co. Midwest will carry the entire line of Image Armor pretreatments at their 10 locations in California, Colorado,...

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