Industry Advice

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 …

This month Resolute DTG’s managing director, Colin Marsh, reports on the new range of RTP garments that do not need pre-treating before direct to garment printing. Not having to pre-treat shirts – what does it really mean? Since the inception of direct to garment printing the process has required a …

The chances are that your direct to garment printer or printers will be left standing for a long period of time during the Christmas period. The correct maintenance before you close down will save you from any heartache when you start work again and could save you a lot of …

In the third part of this series of articles about identifying and resolving transfer print problems, Sef’s area manager, Holger Beck, this month deals with the influence of the surface of problematic fabrics on the adhesion of flock and flex. Since we looked at the influence that the quality of …

Many things can affect your embroidery production so Amaya Sales UK’s managing director, Peter Wright, has put together eight top tips that should help you improve on your current position. Remember that machine downtime can cost you hundreds or thousands of pounds of lost profit and in some cases you …