Mark Venit stopped in for a visit in St. Clair Shores last week. He had some clients he was consulting with in Michigan and decided to drop by between appointments. For the past several months, in addition to his consulting work, Mark has been busy downloading his marketing experience in the decorated apparel industry into [...]

There have always been team sponsors, but what do you do when you have more than one?  How do you put all the names on the jersey? This is one trend we noticed that keeps growing, both here in the United States as well as in Europe. The folks at Stahls’ European Deco facility sent [...]

I just read on Josh Ellsworth’s blog that Impressions Magazine has added the category of “Most Creative Use of Heat Applied Graphics” in its annual Impressions Awards.  This is fantastic news, since we have been actively promoting heat printing products and services since 1932. Better late than never, as they say. We are thrilled. Maybe it is because heat printing [...]

The FESPA 2010 is underway and I’ve been busy trying to see everything there is to see at this HUGE show that has over 600 exhibitors presenting all aspects of screen, digital and textile printing. Innovation is this year’s theme and I am doing my best to sort out what is really innovation and what [...]

Here’s a case where thinking out of the box led to growing something inside a box. Square Watermelons!  I guess this isn’t really a new idea, the Japanese supposedly have been growing and selling square watermelons for years, but an export company out of Panama just delivered its first shipment of 120 square melons to [...]

 I realized, or rather my daughter Erin pointed out to me, that the video I posted yesterday didn’t explain threading, and she pointed me in the direction of the one that does. (noboby’s perfect!) There are several different Hotronix Fusion videos on YouTube now and I meant to post this one yesterday with my comment [...]

Crowds at the Atlantic City Imprinted Sportswear Show waiting to see the new Hotronix Fusion Swinger/Draw heat press. Although I personally wasn’t able to make it to Atlantic City, GroupeSTAHL was well represented at the recent Imprinted Sportswear Show this past weekend. The biggest surprise was the number of people new to the business purchasing [...]

The industry’s first draw/swinger press with EZ-Touch Screen technology, EZ-On platen for fast shirt loading and other ultimate ease of use features. One or more patents or patents pending! If you’re heading to the Imprinted Sportswear Show in Atlantic City this weekend, you’ll be one of the first in the industry to see the new [...]

Yes, those are boat docks in the background and this is how this whole thing got started. We were doing some repairs to the docks, much easier when you have solid ice to stand on, and we had some leftover wood we needed to get rid of. A good friend said that it’s no problem [...]

If you read some of our predictions for 2010 from various GroupeSTAHL people, you might be wondering how accurate they really were. Well, we’re only into February, but we have received some valuable feedback from customer service reps at Stahls’ ID Direct as to what is going on out there. On average our reps have [...]