Industry Advice

So, your customer wants a different style of decoration on the garment but they are not quite sure what would work. They want something that will give a lot of cover but won’t cost the earth. What can you offer them? John-Paul Burton, director of YES Ltd explains. Only a …

Whether you are spending £5,000 or £20,000, buying an embroidery machine from a supplier with little or no support is fraught with danger. Managing director of Amaya Sales UK, Peter Wright, explains. If you think you are getting a bargain by paying a low price, you may be in for …

This month, Colin Marsh, managing director of Resolute DTG, looks at the Christmas rush and capping stations in detail, what they actually do and how to look after them. During the last three months of every year the online and high street retail fashion industry experiences a massive surge in …

Printing with laser transfer paper gives you one of the most flexible additions to any business involved in designs or lettering to most garments and substrates. Managing director of Amaya Sales UK, Peter Wright, explains. Whether you want to print on to T shirts, ceramics, metal, nylon, wood, paper etc. …

This month Danielle Park and Natalie Greetham of Madeira UK provide some sound advice on how to embroider onto knitwear and beanies. Embroiderers currently snowed under with mountains of knitwear; from beanies to school uniform jumpers and everything in between will be well aware of the difficulties when embroidering onto …

Poor registration between the positive and the print is one area that has caused screen printers problems for years. This how to guide looks at some of the most common causes of miss-register that can occur during screen making. William Shorter, product manager, CPS explains. Unfortunately though there are many …

This month Colin Marsh, managing director of Resolute DTG explains the direct to garment curing process and the importance of correct procedure. Last month the DTG column was about storing your inks correctly to get the best performance from them. This month I am going to be giving tips on …

Image is everything when you are offering sublimated products, says Robin Kavanagh, public relations manager for Sawgrass. The quality of images you can provide directly impacts how much you can charge and whether or not you can turn one-time jobs into regular customers. If you’re looking for output that commands …

In a series of articles, Chetan Chandarana, MD of Netdigitizing, provides some top advice for embroiderers. How many people do you know have bought a car before learning to drive? And yet when it comes to embroidery machines some of us take a leap of faith without the adequate training. An embroidery machine …

This month Colin Marsh, managing director of Resolute DTG, explains the importance of storing your DTG and UV inks correctly. Some inks, especially water-based non-solvent inks, used in most DTG printers are susceptible to changes in temperature and long periods of stationery time. White inks containing TI02 (titanium dioxide) will …