Years ago, I printed posters and simple tees for a local junior college> Housed in an unairconditioned room, I learned to use a letterpress, having to load each letter backwards for it to print correctly. Now almost 40 years later, working in the printing and promotional industry, I am experiencing new processes coming alive faster each day. We are familiar with offset presses, even laser and ink jet printers in the traditional paper print world. If you wanted to add color, separations, and often multiple passes were required. For garments this was a costly proposition. Today color is the sizzle for most all products. For garments, Direct-to-Garment (DTG) and Direct-to-Film (DTF) machines has moved the ability to run photo real prints on garments without color separations or multiple passes to obtain the colors required. Now production facilities have moved from one-off DTG or DTF application to runs of 300 or more pieces per hour. In addition, DTF UV labels have c...
Each year we start with great expectation and optimism that the next 12 months will be better than the last. And most of the time it is, but we might lose that perspective if we miss out on the "happy" part of the greeting. From reflecting on how much we are surrounded by; new babies, health, opportunity to be on the net and read this post and so much more. New fashions, foods, means to travel and engage our world sure are "happy" highlights to 2025- the challenge and excitement to engage new technologies and expand our world/ work views. Let's start taking note and embrace what 2026 has for us, may be some tough times, sad ones, but a lot of "happy" points sprinkled in and though each day. Have a "Happy" New Year and let's work together is making it special as well!