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Fashionable printwear trends revealed
Q. What's new for 2010?
A. Printwear & Promotion (P&P) continues to bring all that's best to the garment decoration market, with fabric and machine technology, in particular, bringing major changes to the visitor. Direct to garment printing has become more affordable and transfer technology offers a low cost, high quality and easy to apply decoration technique. Embroidery machines offer very high speeds and single head machines are probably more popular than ever now that they can be linked together easily to allow a business to expand.
One pass does it all
Users of DTG direct to product ink jet printers will have an advantage over their competitors with the launch of One Pass Fast. This new development has achieved what was previously thought impossible - to print white and CMYK inks during the same pass.
Josero kills the myths about alternative inks
One of the factors you have little control over is the cost of your ink. Printer manufacturers are quick to imply that using any third party ink will render your maintenance contract invalid and possibly damage your printer. This is a powerful and convincing argument because, in most businesses, if the printer breaks down the business grinds to a costly and stressful halt. Companies selling printers make handsome ongoing profits on the sale of inks and service contracts and so will obviously suggest that changing anything leads to potential disaster. It doesn't have to be like this! By speaking to the right people and carefully choosing the correct products you can substantially cut your costs without compromising on print quality. Lets take a look at some of the main arguments put by the OEM's against changing your ink.
Cut ink costs without cutting quality
As a supplier keen to meet all printing requirements including screen, litho, UV and digital inks, blankets, screen stretching and ink mixes, YPS wanted to find a quality alternative digital ink which would perform to OEM ink standards.
Cut-to-print print problems solved with AXYZ CNC solution
Having begun the move from traditional screen-printing to digital printing over a year ago with the purchase of a large-format VUTEk UV printer, Whiteghill was confronted with the same issues about finishing as other owners of these versatile printers. The main problem was how to accurately cut out prints that had been created using rigid materials like foamed board, acrylic and medium-density fibreboard (MDF).
MIS keeps graphics provider in the fast lane
Alongside its nationwide vehicle wrapping application service, Fenn Graphics specialises in producing vehicle livery for commercial vehicles, public transport, advertising and promotion. This means the company's production facility is home to a range of manual and semi auto screen printing machines, plus high resolution Nur Fresco and Mimaki wide format digital inkjet printers, used to produce vehicle livery graphics on a range of vinyl substrates, which are cut to shape using computer aided plotter/cutters.
THE DEFAULT POSITION
The Default Position
Vision Supplies Ltd have been supplying Chim 92 screen cleaning chemistry and machinery exclusively into the UK market for over 7 years. Throughout this period the company has benefitted from a steady increase in the sales of both chemicals and machinery originally manufactured by the Lyon based company.
Preparation is vital
Pre-treating garments for direct-to-product ink jet printing has thus far been an inexact science. Your Embroidery Services aims to make it more efficient and profitable with the DTG PreJet
Direct to product ink jet printing is still a fairly new industry and yet it has already seen major developments in printing technique. More recently garment preparation has taken centre stage with an updated pre-treatment process, designed to be more efficient and profitable.
INTELLIGENT THINKING by Robin George
Think Vision
Vision Supplies Ltd launched its range ofThink inks a little over 2 years ago, a range of UV process screen printing inks formulated and marketed exclusively by them for the demanding UK market.
THE VISION TREATMENT - by Robin George
Due Consideration
In February this year the SP Group a division of St Ives plc took delivery of a Chim 92 M4 screen cleaning machine. The decision to purchase this equipment was the subject of lengthy and detailed negotiations with Vision Supplies Ltd. Vision had identified massive potential cost savings, environmental benefits and performance improvements the SP Group would achieve by purchasing the new equipment and chemical products, exclusively distributed by them in the UK, Eire and Australia.
Investing in new print markets
Bradford-based Dominion Screen & Digital Print business is to add the new Inca Onset S20 to its already comprehensive screen and digital setup when it arrives next month.
VISION+1 A STRONG ALLIANCE - by Robin George
A Strong Alliance
On January 15th Vision Supplies Ltd acquired a substantial shareholding of Registerprint Machinery Ltd, this acquisition of shares has seen the leading supplier of screen printing and ancillary machinery relocate from its Kent base to the newly expanded Vision site in Leeds. A bold move by Vision in difficult market times but one that Managing Director, Paul Waterton thinks is well timed.
Screen and digital unite for success
Printers face a range of challenges: adapting continual technological developments; the decline of traditional sectors; fighting off competition (foreign and domestic); all while keeping demanding customers happy. Add the difficult economic climate and it's easy to see how adapting and enhancing one's service offering is critical to long-term survival.
