2013 should be an extremely interesting time for the whole heat printing industry. Demand is up, heat transfer technology and adhesives are improving every day, there is more creativity in both fabric and garment design. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve heard all this before…but here are a few more predictions for the coming year. [...]

It’s not too early to be thinking about spring sales. What are your plans for going after new league business? There are plenty of options when it comes to team uniforms. While many of you out there are experienced pros, there are other garment decorators that have never used a heat press to apply numbers [...]

Seems to me there are more opportunities than ever to boost add-on sales if you print soccer uniforms…All the Olympic soccer kits have small numbers on the front, numbers on the shorts and many have additional crests on the shorts as well. If you point out these printing areas to your soccer customers, they may [...]

This July many of us are looking forward towards the 2012 Summer Olympics. The gang at Stahls’ Decorating Fulfillment Center (Stahls’ DFC) has been busy producing items for the USA Womens’ Field Uniforms as well as  Men’s Wrestling Jackets and Singlets.  (I’ll try to get a photo of those as well). In addition, Stahls’ DFC finished up another [...]

Reflecting back on day 3 of the Great Race 2012, we are both exhausted and exhilarated. Exhausted from getting up at 4 am, packing for the next stop, figuring out the day’s route, calculating the speeds needed to make good times, driving over gravel roads, navigating carefully over one lane bridges and trying to avoid hitting bear, [...]