Industry Advice

In this month’s article Danielle Park and Natalie Greetham of Madeira UK tackle the tricky subject of embroidering onto sportswear. Read on to find out more. More than nine out of 10 (93%) consumers wear their sportswear for activities other than exercising. “This is not a fashion trend, it is …

Have you heard of GDPR? Thought not. Marketing expert Paul Clapham takes a look at this piece of legislation that affects every business but appears to have been introduced under the radar. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) sticks out like a sore thumb as the title of a piece …

Peter Wright, managing director of Amaya Sales UK takes a look at embroidery framing systems that will not only let you speed up your production, but will also allow you to embroider in those awkward spots. To retain your customers, you need to be able to offer them everything that …

Sublimation is the perfect technology for helping people capture life’s most precious memories. Among them, the birth of a child offers a great deal of room for creativity and possibilities. Robin Kavanagh, Sawgrass’ public relations manager, explains. Whether it’s the new parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends or extended family, …

Colin Marsh, managing director of Resolute DTG, takes a look at bi-directional printing – when, how and why to use it. One of the most asked questions to our engineers at Resolute is, what is the difference between uni-directional printing and bi-directional printing and why do I need know. The …

This month industry veteran William Shorter tries to answer whether printers should be screen printing or printing direct to garment. Should I be screen printing or printing direct to garment?This seems to be the question that many people are asking themselves and both large and small businesses are diversifying to …

In January Facebook announced it was making changes to its newsfeed algorithm to favour posts from friends and family over those from businesses. Marketing expert Paul Clapham reveals what this means for your business page. Normally speaking, the media could put the phrase ‘changing a news feed algorithm’ in the …

This month Resolute DTG’s managing director, Colin Marsh, explains the differences between DTG, screen and how the magic numbers where they meet have changed. As the print run length of garments produced using the DTG process increases, the print runs produced with screen printing are rapidly reducing. Why is this? …

Embroidering school badges is remarkably similar to creating commercially designed freestanding badge emblems and are no different from small run patches. Follow these simple tips provided by digitising expert Erich Campbell to create high quality badges every time. Crest designs are layered with tightly packed detail covering the full design. …

3D embroidery is not actually that new. John-Paul Burton, director, Your Embroidery Services Ltd reports on this market-opening technique. 3D embroidery has been around, with varying success, for more than a couple of decades. Strangely, although machinery and software etc. have advanced at a fair rate, the technique for this …