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Print & Stitch in 2017
After a successful 2016, the Print & Stitch Roadshows
are back for 2017. There will be 12 stops across the
UK this year where visitors will be able to see Stocks
Embroidery & Sewing Machines, The Magic Touch,
Madeira and other UK print and embroidery suppliers.
The next show is in Newcastle on 16 February, then
Leicester on 23 March.
Attendance is free; for a full list of dates and locations
visit the website.
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TheMagicTouch invites customers
to decorate their balls
TheMagicTouch (TMT)
has developed an
image transfer process
that allows easy per-
sonalisation of foot-
ball, rugby and other
sports balls. Full colour
logos and images are
possible, as manag-
ing director Jim Nicol
explains. “Until now
the decoration and
personalisation of balls
has been mainly re-
stricted to single-col-
our designs applied
using traditional PAD
printing, which involves
a degree of setting up
and is not suitable for
photographic imag-
es, and certainly not
for individual designs.
Volume orders are
normally printed and
processed at a factory
in China or Pakistan involving high minimum order levels and up to six
weeks order processing.
“Using the ProSeries Oki 7411WT white-toner printer and CPM transfer
paper, full-colour images and logos can be applied to almost any type of
ball using a modified ball-shaped platen manufactured by the UK’s lead-
ing press manufacturer A Adkins & Sons. The process is quick, easy and
very durable, with the cost per printed panel at less than 5p per image.”
TMT has carried out tests with leading European ball manufacturers
over the past six months to ensure the various U surfaces are compatible
with low heat application. The white toner option also enables non-
white panels to be decorated.
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Result introduces new
‘Ready to Brand’ directory
According to Result, its new Ready to Brand brochure
is the “first of its kind
in the industry”. The
product directory
depicts all cur-
rent Result, Result
Headwear and Spiro
garments that have
removable label-
ling or are tag-free,
making them ‘ready
to brand’.
The Result Ready
to Brand brochure is
available now online
and in print with the
choice of an English,
French or German
cover.
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Next stop Newcastle - Print & Stitch is hitting the road again in 2017
Research shows growth in
online selling
Thirty percent of Britons expect to earn money in the
future by regularly selling goods online, with 17% plan-
ning to add to their retirement income in this way. The
eCommerce Participation Study research has prompt-
ed ePages, which carried out the research, to suggest
that we’re becoming a “nation of e-shop-keepers’.
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Website refresh for Fruit of the
Loom and Russell
Fruit of the Loom and Russell have both updated their web-
sites with fresh, bright and easily navigated designs.
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