Ripping yarns: find your film
18 September 2023
In all the excitement about the versatility and cost-effectiveness of direct-to-film (DtF) garment decoration, it’s easy to focus only on the printers and to overlook…
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Whole cloth: waste not want not
18 July 2023
Mountains of discarded garments wind up in developing countries as Western economies attempt to outsource their waste disposal. Michael Walker looks at initiatives to provide…
Whole cloth: under pressure
20 June 2023
Sustainability and circular economy themes were prominent at ITMA in early June, at every stage of the manufacturing, dyeing, printing and finishing process. Michael Walker…
Fresh material: home-grown
20 June 2023
The from-the-ground-up nature of the DtF market’s rapid development has seemingly taken a lot of the bigger textile printer suppliers by surprise. Michael Walker sat…
Whole cloth: interior visions
19 May 2023
Digitally-printed textiles for architectural applications look like being as much of a no-brainer as they are for retail display, with their advantages of easy transport,…
Ripping yarns: it’s showtime
19 May 2023
With two major international shows that include digital textile printing equipment, consumables and software running only two weeks apart...
Fresh material: Making it with Merchr
19 April 2023
Founded during the Covid lockdown periods, when gift shops and events had to close, Merchr was designed to allow businesses to move online, without having…
Printwear & Promotion Live! review
15 March 2023
There was a real buzz at this Printwear & Promotion Live event at Birmingham’s NEC, confirmed by the organiser who reported than in total 5167…
Fresh material: the on-demand opportunity
21 February 2023
Kent, UK-based Prinfab has found ‘a whole new world of commercial opportunity’ by offering an on-demand textile printing service. We look at how that came…
Spinning yarns: the transfer window
21 February 2023
Digital Textile Printer spoke to Rob Brown, head of European business development for Oki Europe about how its textile transfer printing business began, how it…
