Industry Advice

Dip tanks, the screen reclaiming method of choice in the US, are attracting more interest in Europe. But why? William Shorter, product manager of CPS, explains. You just soak your screens in the tank of chemicals and rinse; right? With the increasing interest in this screen reclaim technique, we are …

Resolute DTG’s managing director, Colin Marsh, explains how you can successfully print onto dark polyester with the direct to garment printing process. Printing polyester with DTG, especially dark colours requires a change in the normal print process to get the best results possible. The ink used for the DTG process, …

Whether you are new to embroidery or a veteran embroiderer there’s no getting away from the fact that embroidery equipment costs money and one of the biggest investments will be your embroidery machine without which there would be no embroidery. Danielle Park and Natalie Greetham of Madeira UK explain more. …

2017 brings with it the promise of trouble in the UK school wear market. Will Hemming, consultant to the garment decoration industry, explains more. We’re already feeling the effects of Brexit as the pound/dollar exchange rate affects the cost of importing garments, with a direct impact on margins.  There’s also …

Amaya Sales UK’s managing director, Peter Wright, explores the differences and similarities between direct to garment printing and transfer printing. I am often asked whether DTG or transfer printing is the best process for printing on to garments such as t shirts, polos hoodies etc. Well, there is no straight …

Ingrid Van Loocke, channel marketing manager for Sawgrass, explores the challenges surrounding print on demand and the solutions to this. Demand for personalised and custom products in small orders is growing each year. This poses challenges to those in the imprinting industry whose business centres on analogue technologies, such as …

In the fourth part of this series of articles about identifying and resolving transfer print problems, Sef’s area manager, Holger Beck, examines the problems associated with dye migration. The digital transfer printing market has been growing for years, partly at the expense of the classic silkscreen printing, but it has …

It has been well documented that full exposure of any emulsion guarantees the best durability on press. However, what happens when you back off on the exposure time in an attempt to resolve fine detail and use post-exposure to try and restore durability? William Shorter, product manager of CPS – …

Christmas, as always is a busy time for many embroiderers who work in the personalised gifts and decorations sectors and what is more Christmassy than adding some twinkling metallic threads to your embroidery? Danielle Park and Natalie Greetham of Madeira UK explain more. Unfortunately we hear all too often how …