It’s back to school time and hoodie season is here!  Chances are if you supply any school or sports team you will be heat printing hoodies this fall. The following is a true story, although tragic it’s important to read on so that we may illustrate the proper technique. I am heat printing 12 hoodies for a Breast Cancer 3 Day Team, very simple. Ink on paper transfers on the back under the hood and another ink on paper transfer for the [...]

Digital printing is growing rapidly and is here long term.  It has exploded over the past year and  the SGIA Expo has devoted an entire booth to it at the Las Vegas show in October.  The Digital Apparel Production Zone will host some of  the industry leaders in this technology. There are many different techniques that fall into the digital printing category - DTG (Direct to garment), Dye sublimation, heat-applied vinyl, print and cut vinyls-just to name a few.     The features and benefits [...]

Check out what we found:  Last night, we spotted a Transfer Express Easy Print layout on national TV.  During an airing of the new Shaq VS. Show, you can see a young boy, Dale Earnhardt’s nephew, wearing Easy Prints® screen printed transfer layout QBA-112. Earnhardt had the honor of teaching Shaq the fine art of the free throw. See the entire show here. You can catch the t-shirt at the 5:48 minute mark. Enjoy! Learn more about Transfer Express Easy Prints®. [...]

Recently while weeding some very detailed designs cut from the CAD-CUT® Fashion-FILM™, I found that I had removed a very important tiny piece of heat transfer vinyl from the mylar carrier. It was late, I was in a hurry and I only had 1 more heat transfer to complete. The missing tiny piece could not be found, so I was going to need to cut it again.  I need to save time….. IDEA! Rather than cut the entire design I could just cut the [...]