Having worked with garment decorators for many years, I know it’s the goal of many to have their heat printing look indistinguishable from direct screen printing. In my experience end customers (the folks that wear the garments) don’t care or even think about how their garment was decorated…they just want it to look good. In most cases, they’re not [...]

Except for some colleges and universities that don’t start until late September, I’m pretty sure mostly everyone is back to school by now. It’s a time of adjustment for everyone, and it’s a time when parents worry more about their kid’s safety. Worry is good for your business. Why? Because who doesn’t want to give [...]

I have always been a huge fan of  flock, it’s easy to use, it looks great and it lets you create a look that can easily compete with embroidery for a fraction of the cost. Now there’s a new version of CAD-CUT® FLOCK available that you can try.  This video by Ed Kent of CAD-CUTDirect.com [...]

If you’re working this weekend you probably should consider yourself lucky, but then again, you probably want to get out and enjoy yourself as well. If you need help creating artwork, more and more garment decorators are discovering CADWorxlive.com. CADWorxlive.com is GroupeSTAHL’s free online artwork creation website. If you still haven’t checked it out yet, [...]

Thanks for all the positive feedback I’ve been getting on this series of predictions for 2010 from GroupeSTAHL people around the world. So far we’ve heard from Brian Baker, Product Research and Development, Josh Ellsworth,  Stahls’ CADCUT Direct and Ulrike Andre, Stahls’ International. Now I have a submission from David Wheatley, who has been with [...]