In a past conversation with Frank of WildSide West, he mentioned he’s been having a lot of sales success with automotive-themed, full color transfers. When I asked him why, he mentioned that the interest in classic cars–and cars of all kinds for that matter–seems to be booming.  We talked about the abundance of car shows, (especially [...]

Webster’s Dictionary defines innovation as the introduction of something new; a new idea, method or device.  GroupeStahl companies have a long history of innovation–it’s one of our core reasons for being– and we are excited to show you one of our latest innovations for embroiderers: A new, better way to create glitter appliqué using the new, Stahls’ Rip-Away Appliqué process. There [...]

In case you were wondering, Atlantic City wasn’t washed away by Hurricane Sandy, even if the December 2012  storm did force casinos to close for an unprecedented 5 days. That was months ago though and from where I’m standing now, about to go into the convention center to check on the booth set-up progress for [...]

How hot is the market for heat printed promotional items? Very hot. Carleen Gray, VP Marketing of GroupeSTAHL and lead presenter of How to Add A Heat Printing Operation to Your Business Today at the recent ASI Show in Dallas, told me that there was standing room only once again at this sought-after 3-hour hands-on [...]

Thanks for all your interest in yesterday’s post on How to Use a Flexible Pad to avoid heat marks. We had a reader ask the following question: “Can this be used with sublimation 395 degrees for 45 seconds, and will it effect the heat?” I checked with Josh Ellsworth and he supplied the following answer, which [...]