UPDATE – Adobe Changes Mind on Upgrade Price By Scott Fresener
Adobe announced plans to offer subscription based pricing in early 2011, but it was in November with the unveiling of the pricing for Adobe CS6 that the company really irritated long time users/supporters. In addition to the new subscription services, they announced that to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS6, you needed [...]
Save $$ With our New Coupon Page
Coupons are the hot ticket right now so why not coupons for garment decorators. We have started a new Coupon Page with a few offerings. We hope to build this page to have hundreds of discounts and promotions from the industry. If you are an industry supplier and want to offer discounts to “friends of [...]
Freseners “How To Print” Book – Perfect for any Tablet
With the popularity of the iPad and other tablet devices it was only fitting that the popular book, How To Print T-Shirts For Fun And Profit by Scott and Pat Fresener be released a digital eBook version. For over 32 years their popular book has been the guide for countless thousands of garment [...]
Obama Signs “Anti-Trinkets and Trash” Bill
On November 9, President Obama signed what might be called the “Anti-Trinkets and Trash Bill” as part of a bill to cut government wasteful spending. Wow. Regardless of your political leanings, this one hits home at our industry. No one can argue that the governments wastes billions of dollars but when you single out promotional [...]
Congrats to Tom Rauen for Wearing 247 Shirts!
A huge congratulations to industry member, Tom Rauen, of EnvisionTees.com in Dubuque, Iowa for beating the Guinness Book of World Records for the most T-Shirts worn. Tom did this amazing feat at the Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque, on November 11 by wearing 247 shirts!
With an official Guinness Book of World Records judge present [...]
SGIA Show Reports from Scott Fresener
SGIA has its annual Expo last week in New Orleans. Scott Fresener was there roving the isles and talking with friends and customers. There are number of short videos below. Check them out. Watch for a complete show report with show footage no later than Sunday night, September 23.
While the show did not seem as [...]
Featured Articles
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UPDATE – Adobe Changes Mind on Upgrade Price By Scott Fresener
Adobe announced plans to offer subscription based pricing in early 2011, but it was in November with the unveiling of the pricing for Adobe CS6 that the company really irritated long time users/supporters. In addition to the new subscription services, they announced that to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS6, you needed [...]
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Save $$ With our New Coupon Page
Coupons are the hot ticket right now so why not coupons for garment decorators. We have started a new Coupon Page with a few offerings. We hope to build this page to have hundreds of discounts and promotions from the industry. If you are an industry supplier and want to offer discounts to “friends of [...]
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Freseners “How To Print” Book – Perfect for any Tablet
With the popularity of the iPad and other tablet devices it was only fitting that the popular book, How To Print T-Shirts For Fun And Profit by Scott and Pat Fresener be released a digital eBook version. For over 32 years their popular book has been the guide for countless thousands of garment [...]
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Obama Signs “Anti-Trinkets and Trash” Bill
On November 9, President Obama signed what might be called the “Anti-Trinkets and Trash Bill” as part of a bill to cut government wasteful spending. Wow. Regardless of your political leanings, this one hits home at our industry. No one can argue that the governments wastes billions of dollars but when you single out promotional [...]
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How To Do It
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Using Foil for Great Effects!
By Scott Fresener
In the early to mid 90’s, foil on shirts was HUGE! We use to teach it in our classes and the students really ate it up. About 1996, we stopped showing it because no on cared. Guess what? Like so many other things in this industry, foil made a giant [...] -
Halftone Dots Made Easy
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about halftone dots for screen printing and how to create them, expose them and print them in this article by Scott Fresener.
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Screen Printing Plastisol Heat Transfers
By Scott Fresener.
I was reading a recent post on another forum where the conversation was about how to screen print your own heat transfers. The responses made it sound like rocket science. I cut my teeth screen printing millions of heat transfers in the 70’s and regardless of what anyone says (who was probably [...] - More from How To Do It
News & Events
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Fespa Fabric – Barcelona Spain – February 21-24
By Scott Fresener. Fespa is on the move again and in early 2012 they will once again have their huge Fespa Digital show along with a smaller show-within-a-show called Fespa Fabric in Barcelona Spain, February 21 – 24, 2012! Wow. Tapas on Las Ramblas. Nothing finer!
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Academy of Screen Print Technology New Members
I have been a member of the Academy of Screen Print Technology since 1995 and each year we induct new members from around the world at our annual dinner/business meeting at the SGIA Show. This year we had a great meeting at the Marriott hotel in New Orleans on Wednesday, October 19. There were about [...]
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Important SGIA Webinars
SGIA offers a number of Webinars on a regular basis and many of them are very important to Garment Decorators. Click here for more details. There is no fee if you are an SGIA member and $25 fee for non-members. These are well worth it!
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Events Calendar Update
We just updated the Events Calendar to include all the major trade shows through May of 2012 – including key international shows. Learn about industry Trade Shows, Open Houses, Training Classes and more with our Industry Events Calendar. If you have an event coming up make sure to let us list it.
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Product News
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Finally a Low Cost Direct-to-Garment Printer Starting at $3,495!
It was bound to happen. Our good friend, Andy McDaniel with Easy T Printer has come out with a low priced direct-to-garment printer that prints on white or light shirts (no white ink) for ONLY $3,495. The machine has a simple design, is easy to use and prints just like printers costing three times as [...]
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New Rapid Tag Printer
Do you print tags/labels in the back of shirts? Do you print small images (up to 6″ x 6″) on sleeves, baby clothes and other items? Do you need a way to print these FAST? Check out the new Rapid Tag from All American Screen Mfg. Save $500 as a “friend of [...]
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Halftone Converter
Do you need a way to convert Photoshop files to halftone dots? Are you searching for the missing “Screen” button in Photoshop CS5?
Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t call to say they upgraded to Photoshop CS5 and they can’t find the “Screen” button that they use to set the halftone [...] -
T-RIP 1.2 Released
T-RIP Film Output – NEW Version
If you tried T-RIP before….try it again!
We just released Version 1.2 of T-RIP. Creating film positives on an inexpensive inkjet printer just got better. T-RIP is now easier to use and install and much faster! Plus version 1.2 lets you print ALL Black on almost [...] - More from Product News
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