Elevating Your Hat Game: Innovative Decorating Techniques, Sourcing Strategies

Published: September 30, 2024

The Ink Kitchen’s Rick Roth looks at some of the latest sourcing strategies and decorating tech for screen printers, embroiderers and heat-press professionals interested in expanding their business into custom-decorated headwear.

 

In this Shop Talk discussion, host Rick Roth, founder of New England’s Mirror Image Screenprinting & Embroidery and the Ink Kitchen, talks with Ty Kain of Crafted MFG and Jenna Sackett of STAHLS’ Transfer Express about: 1) the business sourcing blank hats 2) some of the latest technologies available for decorating hats for customers of all kinds using a heat press and 3) the opportunities the sale of custom-decorated hats can provide screen printers, embroiderers and heat-press decorators of all kinds.

Rick’s conversation with Ty and Jenna was recorded at the 2023 Impressions Expo in Fort Worth, Texas. For more on the Fort Worth event as well as the other two annual Impressions Expos in Long Beach, California, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, click here. To see some more videotaped Shop Talk sessions from over the years, click here.

Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
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