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Fruit of the Loom Debuts Garment Dyed T-Shirt Most PoPular ImpressIons Web articles MoSt Saved 1. First Aid for Embroidery Mistakes, Part 2 of 2: From Stitch Removal to Hole Repair 2. First Aid for Embroidery Mistakes, Part 1 of 2: The Basics 3. Needle Knowledge Enables Easier Embroidery 4. Newest Print/Cut Devices Improve Speed, Quality (With Video!) 5. How to Calculate the Real Cost of Embroidery Supplies MoSt Printed The Garment Dyed T-Shirt from Fruit of the Loom features the company’s highest stitch density and a soft hand, yielding an exceptional printing surface, according to the company. 1. First Aid for Embroidery Mistakes, Part 2 of 2: From Stitch Removal to Hole Repair 2. First Aid for Embroidery Mistakes, Part 1 of 2: The Basics 3. Tips for Easy Embroidery on Thick Items 4. How to Determine a True Thread Break 5. Needle Knowledge Enables Easier Embroidery Fruit of the Loom, Bowling Green, Ky., recently debuted its Garment Dyed T-Shirt, which features a high yarn count and tight stitch density. The T-shirt (style DA2727) is made of 4.5-ounce, 100% preshrunk cotton jersey with 28/1 fine-gauge yarn, the company’s highest yarn count. The soft hand yields an exceptional printing surface, according to the company. The Garment Dyed TShirt also is label-free for added comfort, performs well with discharge printing, and is available in adult sizes S-2XL in six vintage fashion colors. Fruit of the Loom featured the T-shirt this past March at the Imprinted Sportswear Shows (ISS) in Atlantic City, N.J. The company demonstrated how the shirt’s high stitch density characteris- tics could mesh ideally with screen printing using specialty inks to yield desirable results. Decorators agree. “The tighter weave allowed the high density to sit more on top of the garment, which allowed for one of the best looking high-density prints we have done,” says Paul Leto of Broken Arrow Wear, Des Moines, Iowa. “I was concerned about printing on such a range of colors because I’ve been disappointed in the past trying to achieve consistency,” says Stuart Brent of Vacord Screen Printing, Philadelphia. “However, every color printed consistently, even the dark colors, and I was thrilled with the results.” For more information, visit fruitactivewear.com. — J.L. Stahls’ ID Direct Opens Digital Decorating Center Stahls’ ID Direct, St. Clair Shores, Mich., recently opened a decorating center for heat printing. In addition to ordering CAD-PRINTZ digital transfers and custom logos from the company, dealers now can ship their blank items to the Stahls’ ID Direct Digital Decorating Center for heat application. The logos will be heat applied to the items and then shipped back to the dealer or directly to the end user, according to the company. “The Digital Decorating Center is an ideal way for us to partner with dealers,” says Brett Stahl, Digital Decorating Center general manager. “We make it easy for them to meet their production deadlines while keeping them on the sales floor servicing their customers.” Items that can be sent to the facility include T-shirts, hoodies, mouse pads, coolers, koozies, back packs, leather portfolios and more. Costs are determined by the type of application needed. For example, products that are easy to heat apply — such as T-shirts — qualify for a standard application fee. Designs larger than 20 inches qualify for an oversize application fee, and hard-to-heat-print items MoSt e-MaiLed 1. Off the Cuff: Crank Up Your Market Share — Starting This Week! 2. Newest Print/Cut Devices Improve Speed, Quality (With Video!) 3. Next Level Apparel Launches New Website 4. First Aid for Embroidery Mistakes, Part 1 of 2: The Basics 5. Tips for Picking the Right Stabilizer to read any of these articles, visit impressionsmag.com. Find the Search box at the top of the page and input the article title (in full or in part) — in quotation marks — and hit enter on your keyboard or click the blue circle next to the Search box. Stahls’ ID Direct recently opened a digital decorating center as a way to assist dealers with decorating, especially during the busier sports seasons. that may require additional preparation are considered a premium application. For more information, visit stahlsid.com. — S.G. impressionsmag.com 10 Impressions >> June/July 2011 http://www.fruitactivewear.com http://www.impressionsmag.com http://www.stahlsid.com http://www.impressionsmag.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Impressions - June/July 2011

Impressions - June/July 2011
Contents
First Impressions
From the Show Director
FYI
Product Gallery
Cool Kidswear
Cpsia: Three Years Later
Trend Update: Teen Apparel Decoration
Recession Survivors Reveal Strategies for Staying in Business
How to Win an Apparel-Decorating Award
Technique
Graphics & Design
Production
For Screen Printers Only
Online Directory
Pressing for Profit
Tech Tips
On Design
Business to Business
Classifieds
Ad Index

Impressions - June/July 2011