Screen Printing Directory

Direct to garment printing or DTG as it is sometimes known, is now emerging as an alternative to screen printing, although for short runs at present, the industry looks set to change in the coming years, streamlining distribution, warehousing and the use of less materials and shorter set up times could see a major shift towards this method of garment decoration. Although slow speeds are all that is available at present there are sound concepts for much faster single pass machines already in place. Screen printing, however, is not going to become a forgotten art, there is so much more in the way of options for texture colour and design that is still beyond a digital system, and still unexplored by screen printers themselves, the future is more choices, and more styles than ever before.

T-shirt Printing: DTG or direct to garment printing

August 14, 2008

Not ideal in all situations, and the ink can be problematic to work with at times, water based T-Shirt printing can be extremely satisfying. This month has seen a big increase in jobs produced with water based inks here in cornwall UK, some customers have even changed their original ideas to suit the process. Companies requiring Promotional t-shirts for various events this summer have been taking the greener option too, with both OKARMA and Earth Positive T-Shirts doing well.

Water based T-Shirt Printing  

August 4, 2008

Wilcom ® DecoStudio © e1

Wilcom and Corel Corporation have jointly developed Wilcom ® DecoStudio © e1, this powerful software for machine embroidery. Wilcom ® DecoStudio © e1 allows to create, digitize or convert any designs for machine embroidery. Also you can easy import vector objects from CorelDRAW ® X3 because Wilcom ® DecoStudio © e1 has the full integration with CorelDRAW ® X3.

DecoStudio includes:

• Wilcom ® DecoStudio © e1
• CorelDRAW ® X3
• Corel ® PowerTRACE X3
• Corel ® PHOTO-PAINT ® X3
• Corel CAPTURE™ X3

Wilcom DecoStudio e1 supports a wide range of file formats for machine embroidery, such as:

• EMB (Wilcom ES design file)
• EMX (Wilcom Cross Stitch)
• ESL (Wilcom ESL)
• ESS (Wilcom ESS)
• DST (Tajima Pulse)
• DSZ (ZSK—Tajima machine format)
• HUS (Husqvarna/Viking)
• ART V4.0 (artista design file)
• ARX (artista cross stitch files)
• AMT (artista template)
• AMT42 (Explorations template)
• PCD, PCQ, PCS (Pfaff)
• PES, PCS (Deco, Brother, Babylock)
• PMU (Proel)
• PUM (Proel DOS)
• SAS (Saurer SLC)
• EMC (Clipart Files)
• CND (Melco condensed file)
• PCH (Gunold APS)
• 10O (Toyota)
• BRO (Bits & Volts)
• CSD (POEM/Singer/Huskygram)
• DAT (Hiraoka DAT)
• DSB (Barudan)
• EXP (Melco)
• INB (Inbro Files)
• JEF (Janome/Elna/Kenmore)
• KSM (Pfaff)
• MJD (Time & Space MJD)

Wilcom DecoStudio e1 includes 30 high-quality fonts designed for small lettering.

April 18, 2008