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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 [...]
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!
They have again asked me to present a seminar program [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who really uses T-Seps and FastFilms?
Some days I feel like a hairdresser. I know much more than I should. Over the years I have had the great pleasure of seeing a LOT of great shirt images of famous people, places, and things that came from FastFilms and now T-Seps. If you look at some of the samples on the T-Seps [...]
Secrets to High-End Printing on Dark Shirts by Scott Fresener
This article was promoted by yet another call from a new T-Seps user (large company) faced with the same old “we can’t print that” comment from the screen and production departments. Over the years I have had this call and conversation THOUSANDS of times. True. It comes from the fact that in the every day [...]
What Can We Learn From Fashion Week? By Scott Fresener
Fashion week was held last week in New York City and I think for the masses it is one more boring “I could never wear that” event. But, if you are in the decorated apparel industry you need to not think of runway shows and Fashion Week as not being part of what you do. [...]
Woodstock…I was there … or was I?
This is a “reprint” of a fun little article I wrote on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in August of 2009. Two years later I thought I might share this with you all again…….Don’t forget to click on the photos to see enlarged versions.
They say if you remember the 60’s you weren’t there. Well…… [...]
T-Shirt War Video
This is VERY funny! It is a short video called T-Shirt War by two wild and crazy guys called Rhett and Link at……. you guessed it… www.RhettandLink.com. These guys have produced over 200 internet videos that are fun to watch. They also write music, produce custom videos, have a pretty funny website with a lot [...]
FESPA Fabric Hamburg Great Success – by Scott Fresener
I just returned from Hamburg Germany where I did seminars and videotaping at Fespa Fabric. It was a great show and I had a lot of fun and worked hard. Don’t miss my show reports below. I did short re-caps of each day and I did a number of interesting interviews. The one NOT to [...]
History Lesson
The shirt that started it all!
Wow, has this industry changed. For those newbies and even some who think they are old timers, how many of you can remember the shirt on the left? Yes, I own an original Farrah Fawcett shirt circa 1976. In fact, back in 2002 Impressions Magazine was doing a 25th Anniversary [...]
April Update by Scott Fresener
I have not blogged in awhile and thought it time to get back on track. Traveling knocks the wind out of the work load. Here is an update and some thoughts.
Color Separations
This one really caught me off guard. I have been doing separations for a long time. They were usually for T-Seps or FastFilms [...]
T-RIP NEW Version Release
Comments by Scott Fresener.
After much work and long hours I have finally released the new version of T-RIP film output software. Initially I was going to make a “simple” plugin for Photoshop and then Corel Draw that only worked on the Epson 1400. But, after hundreds of calls like “will it work on the R1800? [...]
