Podcasts about direct to garment

David Clark (Huntsman Corporation) and Eric Beyeler (DuPont) speak with Keypoint Intelligence's Johnny Shell on developments in digital textile and DTG dyes and pigments. The lively conversation also includes discussions on new ink formulations for improved color gamut and print results, the advancements in white inks, durability improvements, and recent trends and technologies that are opening the door to new opportunities for ink manufacturers.

Sean Michael Lewis discusses the value of using a direct to garment printer for marketing and sales. 

In this episode, I sit down to talk with Matt McLellan owner of Apparel Lab a Direct-To-Garment print shop that also offers embroidery, laser etching, stickers & vinyl work. Their motto is life’s too short to wear boring t-shirts. We discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how he applies lessons learned in other businesses to shape the structure of Apparel Lab. Apparel Labhttps://www.instagram.com/theapparellab/https://apparellab.co/Watchhttps://youtu.be/w5b6yb6mTfoSponsorsUAH College of Businesshttps://www.instagram.com/uah_business/Fow Wow Designs https://www.instagram.com/fowwows/ Offbeat Coffee Studiohttps://www.instagram.com/offbeatcoffeestudio/More Beyond Rocketshttps://www.instagram.com/beyondrockets/https://www.beyondrockets.com/

In this episode I breakdown dropshipping as a business model for artist merchandise. Dropshipping makes it easy for artists and small business owners to start selling merch without having to carry inventory or be the one shipping items to customers. My online store was possible because of white label dropshipping. Today I'm sharing the specifics of what it is, how I use it in my business, the companies I like working with and why you might want to consider it for your artist merchandise. There's different types of dropshipping as you may have discovered with a quick google search, so I wanted to break them down for you in the simplest terms so you can make an informed decision on your designed products. I go into detail about my favorite dropshipping company and printer Printful for whom I'm an affiliate. You can get started using Printful with my affiliate link below...https://www.printful.com/a/240141:07232775aa168b70fe4bd2110e6d8966Get the full episode show notes here with pictures, specific reference links and where you can leave comments related to the episode:http://www.jesskovic.com/podcast/7Visit my online boutique featuring exclusive designs on apparel, accessories and art prints:https://sugarbunchcreative.com/Let's connect! Instagram - @jess_kovicTwitter - @jess_kovic

This episode talks about how DTG continues to evolve with technological improvements that empower greater material diversity as well as solutions aimed at enabling mass customization for every size print shop.

Deborah runs the largest social group of Printers in the Universe (#Printerverse), hosted on LinkedIn, and has been a print customer for years. So during this episode she’s going to bring us a view from both OUTSIDE the custom apparel niche market and inside it as a consumer.

In this episode, we are talking with Mark Biletnikoff. He talks about his biggest failures, great successes and what he’s done to grow to 12 DTG printers, 2 screen setups, embroidery, vinyl and more..

After serving 10 years together in the Army, Chad Davenport, and Alec Feiner are two Veterans who had a vision of doing something even greater with their lives. Originally starting off in boxing promotions, they ventured into the apparel side of the business world. Paying homage to their love for the Great State of Texas, the 28th state to enter the union, they began to build what is now known as The 28th Original Apparel, a Direct To Garment custom apparel, and graphic design company. They went from enduring the uphill battle of starting a business in a 10-foot by 12-foot room with blow dryers, and clotheslines, to expanding their business into a 3,000 square foot facility. They not only continue to print on demand but have also branched out into E-Commerce Fulfillment within the nation, and internationally, as well as Brand Building Consultation. website www.28thoriginalapparel.com email us at info@28thoriginal.com facebook page facebook.com/28thoriginal (preferred) _____________________________________________________ If you enjoyed this episode please Comment Share and leave a review...   Join the Conversation in our Facebook Group Success Champions Each Sunday we send out an email with the 5 episodes that aired along with this interview Sign Up Here   Affiliate Links - Which means if you click and buy I will get paid... Audio Books have been a huge part of my journey. Audible changed the game by taking the books you love and turning them into Audio.... Check it out here https://amzn.to/2KeGXC5 Have you struggled with getting on podcasts? Have you found it difficult getting exposure? Check out what Abigail Sinclaire is doing with Human Network Connection

After serving 10 years together in the Army, Chad Davenport, and Alec Feiner are two Veterans who had a vision of doing something even greater with their lives. Originally starting off in boxing promotions, they ventured into the apparel side of the business world. Paying homage to their love for the Great State of Texas, the 28th state to enter the union, they began to build what is now known as The 28th Original Apparel, a Direct To Garment custom apparel, and graphic design company. They went from enduring the uphill battle of starting a business in a 10-foot by 12-foot room with blow dryers, and clotheslines, to expanding their business into a 3,000 square foot facility. They not only continue to print on demand but have also branched out into E-Commerce Fulfillment within the nation, and internationally, as well as Brand Building Consultation. website www.28thoriginalapparel.com email us at info@28thoriginal.com facebook page facebook.com/28thoriginal (preferred) _____________________________________________________ If you enjoyed this episode please Comment Share and leave a review...   Join the Conversation in our Facebook Group Success Champions Each Sunday we send out an email with the 5 episodes that aired along with this interview Sign Up Here   Affiliate Links - Which means if you click and buy I will get paid... Audio Books have been a huge part of my journey. Audible changed the game by taking the books you love and turning them into Audio.... Check it out here https://amzn.to/2KeGXC5 Have you struggled with getting on podcasts? Have you found it difficult getting exposure? Check out what Abigail Sinclaire is doing with Human Network Connection

Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. Chris Freeman will be joining our show today. Chris has a long experience in multi-machine DTG production. We'll discuss this concept, and how this same information relates to the single machine shop. Get some great insight from someone who has been a part of one of the largest Direct to Garment Production based decorating companies in the country. Sponsored by: SGIA.org | ThreadX - Palm Springs, CA February 25-28, 2018 Our regular listeners know this, but 2 Regular Guys are all about garment decorating, a bit of fun, and no rants or lectures or selling. We are not doing this for our employers, but rather for our industry. Since February 2013, The 2 Regular Guys have been the first and the most listened to garment decorating industry podcast on this planet! We are humbled by all of you tuning in each week. We work hard to bring you information that will make your business better, and our industry better. Take a look at our incredible weekly guest list and you'll understand where this industry goes for news, interviews and the heartbeat of garment decorating. Thanks for listening! Thank you to the Veterans! Direct to Garment Production Terry: Chris, tell us about your journey through direct-to-garment printing. Started with 26 Kornits, half of them in existence. Year 1 was testing, Anajet, MSI, brother, Sawgrass, Brother is still there running.  Had the first 3 machines from Belquette, curing problems, pretreat problems, ink problems.  Anajet was early to the Ricoh game and now has real engineers.  Bob Marino and a crazy test a day. Aaron: It sounds like your DTG experience is on the larger scale side. Does what you do translate to a smaller DTG operation? It all comes down to control.  Garbage in garbage out.  Most problems are caused by changing situations you didn't know where changing.  Go use the equipment at a trade show and don't be shy.   Terry: You've had your finger on the pulse of DTG for quite a while now. Where are we going from here? Back to the future multi-station?  Single headed consumer machines?  New chemistry? Aaron: Any surprises we should expect on the DTG front in the short or long future? It's not about the machine, it's about the content and the relationship.   Terry: What advice would you offer someone just now contemplating or just stepping into the DTG arena? Have someone like Eric over at Scalable Press make your work for you until you make enough money to buy a decent used machine. There is so much to learn Aaron: Talk to our listeners about your new business Web based preflighting. Terry: Who can benefit from this technology? Anyone who wants to save time... Terry: Chris, let's shift gears completely and tell us about the work you and your wife are doing in Tanzania. Chris Freeman is a Kentucky native, computer programmer, and Process Engineer. He is a digital printing expert with ten years of experience as an Engineering Director at cafepress. He currently operates a print production consulting business providing advice and software for the print industry. He is a graduate of the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering. He has spent his career creating unique and automated processes to address the challenges of complex short-run work. His time at cafepress was marked by phenomenal growth and changes at the company and in the printing industry as a whole, from the explosion of Epson-based DTG printers in 2007 to the next generation of purpose-built machines. At the start of his tenure, he worked for a company that owned half the Kornits ever made, and by the time he left Epson was selling and supporting a DTG printer. Chris is currently focused on automated graphics preparation for printing and web-to-print integration. He sees the need for smaller customers to be able to easily generate specialty graphics with spot colors and larger customers to be able to do this in an automated fa...

Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. Matthew Rhome with Epson America was an early innovator in direct-to-garment. In fact, much earlier than most people realize. We'll be talking about where the industry came from, where it is today, and where we anticipate DTG being tomorrow. This direct to garment deep dive will cover everything from light to dark shirts and give you the info you need to create awesome shirts with your DTG machine. Sponsored by: SGIA.org | 2017 SGIA Expo in New Orleans - Oct 10-12 Our regular listeners know this, but 2 Regular Guys are all about garment decorating, a bit of fun, and no rants or lectures or selling. We are not doing this for our employers, but rather for our industry. Since February 2013, The 2 Regular Guys have been the first and the most listened to garment decorating industry podcast on this planet! We are humbled by all of you tuning in each week. We work hard to bring you information that will make your business better, and our industry better. Take a look at our incredible weekly guest list and you'll understand where this industry goes for news, interviews and the heartbeat of garment decorating. Thanks for listening! News Teespring, the online custom T-shirt marketplace startup, has recapitalized its stock in what is being described as a financial “cram down.” The Wall Street Journal reports that Teespring is currently raising new financing at a company valuation of about $11 million, compared to previous valuations as high as $650 million.  Crunchbase Article Direct to Garment Deep Dive Aaron: Matt, not many people know the real history of DTG printing. Talk about the origins of the process. Terry: Interestingly, the reason for today's show was a listener request to hear about printing on light shirts. They said everyone talks about dark shirts and white ink, but what should we know about printing light shirts. Aaron: Here's the actual tweet: @InstaShirtUSA - Light shirt DTG, specifically. Seems that whenever digital printing is the topic, the dark side, esp. underbase, tends to dominate. whereas the light apparel, no-white underbase, method & accompanying tips, like color utilization, etc. tend to get overlooked. Old pretreats staining white and pastel and Epson pretreat How inexpensive to print light garments. CMYK - You can print out a color chart for the color you're trying to hit Aaron: You're from Epson, so let's once and for all put something to bed. We all hear resellers out in the industry saying, “Our printer is the same thing. It has an Epson print head too.” The inference, of course, is that they are somehow partnered with Epson. Two kinds of printers on the market Out of date printers in many machines Epson's (lack of) desire to keep those machines running Aaron: Matt, you spend time in a lot of shops. What kinds of production runs are you seeing? Is it still a very short run technology? How the market has changed and short run is going to be a requirement for all decorators. Terry: Matt, we do the day-long Epson seminars together before all the NBM and most of the ISS Shows. You talk a lot about printing products other than t-shirts. Share some of those ideas with our listeners. Aaron: You envisioned the beginning of direct-to-garment printing. Talk to us about the future of the DTG industry as you see it. Matthew Rhome is the founder of the Direct to Garment industry and the inventor of the world's first commercially available Direct to Garment Printer. He was awarded US Patent on DTG printer technology in August 2000. Matthew was a member of the development team that produced the first DTG printer offering from Brother International and currently works for Epson America in DTG Business Development. He can be reached at matthew.rhome@ea.epson.com. Other Events Complete Screen Printing Business Course - Workhorse Products in Phoenix - Aug 26-27

If we are in this industry as a business the goal is to turn a profit. Terry and Aaron have seen way too many businesses struggle just to break even and the main culprit is the inability to truly calculate their costs and then accurately set their prices. This week is part 2 of a 3 part series where Terry and Aaron will discuss calculating your true costs of direct to garment. Then they will dive into some pricing strategies and provide you with some great info that can help your business turn a profit. Our regular listeners know this, but 2 Regular Guys are all about garment decorating, a bit of fun, and no rants or lectures or selling. We are not doing this for our employers, but rather for our industry. Since February 2013, The 2 Regular Guys have been the first and the most listened to garment decorating industry podcast on this planet! We are humbled by all of you tuning in each week. We work hard to bring you information that will make your business better, and our industry better. Take a look at our incredible weekly guest list and you'll understand where this industry goes for news, interviews, and the heartbeat of garment decorating. Thanks for listening! Calculating Your True Costs of Direct to Garment Aaron: Give us an overview of DTG costs and pricing. Unlike other decoration methods, there are not as many variables with DTG. A screen printer can go from a manual press to an automatic press and substantially increase production capability with virtually the same staff. A sublimation printer can go from a desktop printer to a large format printer and cut ink costs dramatically, again with the same staff. But on the other hand, here's an interesting point about DTG printing. With other decoration methods when you add equipment (Go from one manual press to two manual presses) you need to add staff. But in DTG printing, you could realistically add up to three machines for a total of four and operate with the same staffing. I stumbled across this pricing suggestion on FB this week… find your ink and garment cost, and triple it. That advice is just a meaningless formula that tells you nothing about profitability. The end pricing standard has already been set by all the large online resellers (people who sell full-color custom images in as few as one piece). I regularly ask DTG owners and the answer is always within the same range - $20… $20… $20. We have the big online resellers to thank for that. Now, if you're out there and haven't opened your doors yet, you need to allow for cash on hand while you build up to the numbers we'll be talking about here. You'll need to allow time to learn the business and the machines. You'll need to allow for a learning curve. My plan for today's show is to take a simplified overview of costs and pricing. And to make some general assumptions about costs and production times. In the end, it's all about making educated estimates anyway. The further down the road we get with our businesses, the more educated our estimates will get. Aaron: You focus a lot of your seminars and comments here on the show about available production time. How does this impact your numbers? What we're talking about is indirect and direct production time. Indirect production time is preparing art, pretreating shirts, even sweeping up when you're done. Direct production time is actual time spent printing shirts. Direct production time is when we're making money, so this is where we're going to focus our attention. In the scenario I want to build here, I'm going to say our example business has two employees and one DTG printer. Based on my personal experience, I'm going to use numbers for the Epson F2000. You can in turn drop in your own numbers if you have or plan to have a different machine. In this example our two employees spend half their time doing things other than printing such as sales, paying the bills, promoting their business in social media and doing all the indirect functions of the business.

Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. This week, our guest will be Brian Walker, a pioneer in direct to garment pretreatment and inks. Brian has been in the industry since 1986 and will talk to us about where pretreatment and DTG printing is going. Brian will also be sharing his latest venture, garments that are pretreated when you buy them. Sponsored by: Equipment Zone and Siser N.A. Our regular listeners know this, but 2 Regular Guys are all about garment decorating, a bit of fun, and no rants or lectures or selling. We are not doing this for our employers, but rather for our industry. Since February 2013, The 2 Regular Guys have been the first and the most listened to garment decorating industry podcast on this planet! We are humbled by all of you tuning in each week. We work hard to bring you information that will make your business better, and our industry better. Take a look at our incredible weekly guest list and you'll understand where this industry goes for news, interviews and the heartbeat of garment decorating. Thanks for listening!! News Neenah Paper has revolutionary screen prep paper called Exostencil™ that eliminates the chemicals, time and equipment currently needed to make screens. They recommend the OKI Data 831-TS as the printer of choice with the paper, and they will be showing it in the OKI Data Booth at the upcoming NBM Indy Trade Show. Stop by booth 1007 in Indianapolis between June 1st to the 3rd to learn more about the Exostencil™ process. OKI Data will also be showing other digital solutions for garment decoration that is revolutionizing the market. Make sure to stop by booth 1007 and tell them that the 2 Regular Guys sent you and they will have free samples shipped to you so you can test the product for your business. Direct to Garment Pretreatment Let's start with how you got started in this industry. Tell us about your journey into direct to garment pretreatment and inks. You've done more experimenting with printing on polyester than anyone we know. Talk to us about the process and what kind of progress you're making. What's on the horizon in ink and pretreat products. Any secrets you want to share with our listeners? So you have a fairly new product category that I know you're very excited about. Tell us about your new venture RTP Apparel. Isn't this new venture basically putting yourself out of business in the direct to garment pretreatments Private Label show with Marci Kinter Brian Walker: Has been in the industry since 1986, as a screen printer and then got involved with DTG in the mid-2000s. In 2008 he founded the I-Group Technologies, LLC to bring the industry the Viper Pre-Treatment Machine. Next came the addition of Image Armour to provide pretreatment and inks and now as we will discuss more soon, in 2016 he started RTP Apparel. Image Armour RTP Apparel 877-673-4377 Other Events Water based Screen Printing Class – Atlas Screen Supply in Chicago – May 20 Complete Screen Printing Business Course – Atlas Screen Supply in Chicago – June 10-11 Complete Screen Printing Business Course – Workhorse Products in Phoenix – June 24-25 Trade Shows ISS Nashville May 18 – 20 NBM Indianapolis – Jun 1 – 3 ASI Chicago – Jul 12 – 13 NBM Long Beach – Jul 20 – 22 Terry's Books Screen Printing: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own T-Shirt Business Just $4.95 as an e-book. Direct to Garment: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own T-Shirt Business Just $4.95 as an e-book. Scheduling and Estimating Production Time for Garment Screen Printing Just $2.99 as an e-book This show is brought to you for a full hour by: Equipment Zone, with 20 years experience selling garment printing equipment nationwide. Equipment Zone offers the new Epson F2000 SureColor direct-to-garment printer, their own VelociJet-XL DTG printer, and the all new SpeedTreater-TX automatic pretreat machine with a full 16”x24” pre...

Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. Terry and Aaron discussed all things DTG in this direct to garment deep dive. Terry is coming off of an all day training seminar at the NBM Long Beach show showing people the Epson F2000 Direct to Garment Printer, so we will be asking him to share some tips and tricks from that event. The guys will also discuss the beginning of the Direct to Garment segment of our industry as well as discuss what the future might hold. Sponsored by: Equipment Zone Our regular listeners know this, but 2 Regular Guys is all about garment decorating, a bit of fun, and no rants or lectures or selling. We are not doing this for our employers, but rather for our industry. For the past three years, 2 Regular Guys has been the first and the most listened to garment decorating industry podcast on this planet! We are humbled by all of you tuning in each week. We work hard to bring you information that will make your business better, and our industry better. Take a look at our incredible weekly guest list and you'll understand where this industry goes for news, interviews and the heartbeat of garment decorating. Thanks for listening!! Direct to Garment Deep Dive Where direct to garment came from in the industry. The early days Matt Rhome 1996 US Screen (T-Jet), Brother and Mimaki - SGIA Minneapolis 2004 Tried and failed Screen printing pretreatment on a shirt Printing discharge ink through a print head Early innovators - Like car buyers at the turn of the previous century Overview of the current state of direct to garment. Commercial machines now The Frankenstein machines are on the decline Most buyers purchase both a DTG and an automatic pretreat machine Environment is still critical Not just clogging - head cleaning Process is basically still the same as the early days, just vastly more consistent Do your homework - a bit of smoke and mirrors still today Future of direct-to-garment? Polyesters and more specifically performance wear Probably the biggest buzz among potential customers All machines will print at a higher rate of speed Pretreated garments will likely be the future as well Trade Shows NBM Long Beach July 14-16 Embroidery Mart Nashville Aug 5-6 NBM Baltimore Aug 18-20 ISS Nashville Sept 8-10 SGIA Las Vegas Sept 14-16 Other News/Events Complete Screen Printing Business Course - Atlas Screen Supply in Chicago - July 23-24 Complete Screen Printing Business Course - Workhorse Products in Phoenix - August 13-14 Terry's Books Screen Printing: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own T-Shirt Business Just $4.95 as an e-book. Direct to Garment: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own T-Shirt Business Just $4.95 as an e-book. Scheduling and Estimating Production Time for Garment Screen Printing Just $2.99 as an e-book This show is brought to you for a full hour by: Equipment Zone, with 20 years experience selling garment printing equipment nationwide. Equipment Zone offers the new Epson F2000 SureColor direct-to-garment printer, their own VelociJet-XL DTG printer, and the all new SpeedTreater-TX automatic pretreat machine with a full 16”x24” pretreat area. Introductory price is $3,995. Equipment Zone also carries a full line of DTG inks and supplies. Go to EquipmentZone.com This show is for the listeners so please make sure to ask us some questions or give us some topics you would like us to discuss. Also, if you have any event or upcoming items related to our industry that you would like us to bring up on the show, please contact us via our Facebook Page. Also, make sure to interact/follow us on Twitter or Google +. You can also find information over at our YouTube Page.

Welcome to the very first episode of a new format for sharing info in the personalization world. Two industry veterans (Terry Combs and Aaron Montgomery) and regular guys are sitting down to talk about all things related to personalization, like sublimation, direct to garment, heat transfers, screen printing and more.  This first episode will allow you to get to know Terry and Aaron and they will also review some of the things they saw at the recent ISS Long Beach show 2 weeks ago. Enjoy!