It’s no secret that the printed-apparel market is fiercely competitive. Screen printers constantly complain about price-driven competition and the almost unending recurrence of new start-ups. Customer...
I recently took an overnight flight from Baltimore to London, landed, had a quick British breakfast of overstuffed sausage, half-cooked bacon, and baked beans in the...
Ultraviolet (UV) curing technology and its use in screen printing has evolved from infancy in the 1960s to maturity in the 1990s. Improvements in raw materials...
Version 7.0 of Onyx’s workflow software now offers support for the HP Designjet 10000s Series inkjet printer, a 100-in.-wide (2540-mm-wide) unit. Onyx says it has optimized...
Computer-to-screen systems (CTS) give graphics and garment screen printers an edge in the prepress department. These units streamline the stencilmaking workflow and remove some of the...
A recent market-research study conducted by Boston, MA-based Web Consulting suggests that the finishing process is growing and becoming an increasingly profitable step in the production...
Progressive Screen Machines says its new universal quartz flash can be used with most brands of automatic and manual screen-printing presses. It features a proximity sensor...
WB-1 Discharge Ink System from Image Technology is an aqueous, water-based, screen-printable ink that reportedly produces exceptionally bright, vivid, opaque-colored prints on dark fabrics with a...
Can one family of adhesives be used on every type of mounting substrate, material, and media? AGL says yes. The Mount-Smart line from AGL is designed...
Canon’s ImagePrograf 700 uses the company’s new five-color dye-and-pigment reactive-ink system and can print on sheet- and roll-fed media up to 36 in. (914 mm) wide...