For Sam Hill, everyday feels like Christmas since he achieved his boyhood dream this September of owning and running his own garage. But, this is no ordinary garage. Stradale Italia is a Ferrari and Maserati diagnostic, service and repair center, and Sam is there to give owners of these supercars the very best in personal service.

The Mosaica Group, a national distributor supporting dye sublimation and wide format print processes with equipment, consumables and services, announced a partnership with Skyline Exhibits, North America's leading brand of exhibit systems. The partnership enables Skyline to significantly increase their production by installing a high-speed Panthera S4-3.2m dye sublimation printing system, exclusively distributed by The Mosaica Group, in one of their state-of-the-art Design Centers, located in Eagan, Minnesota.

In the last eighteen months everything has come together very nicely for Pierre Pheiffer, the owner and managing Director at Xtreme Signs and Graphics. This Dublin-based digital wide format print provider has installed two new digital 3.2m production quality printers, and ditched his old preferred materials in favour of PONGS® Direct-Tex SoftImage Contrast Black Back textile.

Last I was at an industry tradeshow, lots of new stuff and great to meet industry leaders and fellow industry members. At night while sitting at the hotel bar, I overheard a hefty conversation about inkjet head technology. Yes, inkjet head technology is still a big discussion at tradeshows, specially at the hotel bar for some reason.

When espoused entrepreneurs Michał and Ania Laskowski set upon a new venture to create a textile business serving the Polish craft community, they had little experience in the business of textiles and printing but possessed vital expertise in ecommerce and an astute vision.

Textile solutions from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. are changing the way textile and apparel products are designed and produced, bring environmental sustainability to the industry in a big way. The EFI Reggiani ShanghaiTex tradeshow exhibit will feature sustainable solutions for direct-to-textile printing, denim dyeing and apparel design under the theme of Innovation in Green. The company’s 126 square metre exhibit showcases the future in innovation with EFI Reggiani superior-quality direct sublimation production along with EFI Mezzera DENIM technology, a highly sustainable breakthrough continuous indigo rope and warp dyeing and denim fabric finishing solution.

After a successful show at ITMA 2019, Colorjet India Ltd will be now exhibiting at Shanghaitex 2019 in China, which is an international trade show focused on future textile, fashion trends and innovations.

Sensient Imaging Technologies, the trusted partner for innovative digital inkjet technology, will promote its portfolio of digital inks and demonstrate its commitment to safer, more sustainable solutions for the textile industry, at stand W1A20 during ShanghaiTex 2019 (25th – 27th November, Shanghai). Visitors will be able to discover the environmental and performance benefits of ElvaJet® Coral - Sensient’s digital water-based sublimation ink for textiles - which will be showcased in China for the first time at the show.

Previously available in 3.20 metres, now also available in 5.05 metres - a white-front and black-blacked blockout material, paired with brilliant colours and print vibrancy.

For the 50th edition of Heimtextil (7-10 January 2020), the international trade fair for home and contract textiles will once again sparkle with the world’s largest product range for textile interiors and its unique presentation of the hottest trends. Around 3000 international exhibitors will present their innovations in Frankfurt.

After working for technology companies for the last 35+ years i decided to do it differently this time. I decided that sharing is better than keeping information to yourself. Specially in our printing industry and textile markets, knowledge is kept close to the heart. Just in case the competitor is looking, might steal my idea or whatever reasoning you would like to come up with.

Transforming the famed ballroom at Mayfair’s iconic Claridges hotel into an Italian Palazzo for a Greek couple’s wedding was a piece of cake for special events company Kudos AV.

Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, announced that OnPoint Manufacturing, an innovative leader in on-demand personalized apparel manufacturing, will be implementing Kornit Presto as a cornerstone of its manufacturing optimization efforts. The direct-to-fabric digital print system will be installed at the business’s Florence, Alabama facility.

“We’ve bought the right machine at the right time. You walk around retail and with every step you take all you see is fabric,” says Dan Pitts, Director at KGK Print Group. The machine he’s referring to is the company’s latest acquisition - an EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340 dye sublimation printer.

For the fourth consecutive time, Imaginators has won Best Branding at the Festival Supplier of the Year awards. This adds yet another trophy to its impressive cache of accolades that include multiple wins for Best SME Business of the Year, Best Wide Format and Best Superwide Format Digital Print Company of the Year and several others including IoD Director of the Year for founder and Managing Director Matt Tydeman.

Your Print Specialists (YPS) has announced the immediate availability of the new Poseidon textile printer from South Korean manufacturer, Digital Graphics Inc (DGI). This 1.6metre wide dye-sublimation transfer printer has production speeds of 80 -120m2 per hour.  The company has also launched an enhanced version of the printer, which incorporates an additional printhead.

Krit Patel, managing director of Printvision, invested in 3 EFI inkjet printers in the last 18 months to keep up with demand. The two EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340 dye-sublimation printers and the EFI VUTEk LX3 Pro hybrid LED printer allow the company to produce products of superior quality at an impressive speed – while becoming a close partner with EFI.

Brothers Ash and Krit Patel know a thing or two about wide format digital printing and dye sublimation, and so they should. The siblings have been offering wide format digital print services since 1996, and in 2011 became early adopters of large-format digital textile printing.

Mimaki USA, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutters, today announced the next-generation TX300P-1800 MkII printer that doubles the opportunities for business growth with dual-media and dual-ink support. The TX300P-1800 MkII offers the ability to switch between transfer paper for dye sublimation printing or direct-to-textile printing on one unit, and also offers additional dual-ink possibilities. The TX300P-1800 MkII printer will be on display in the Mimaki USA booth 5216 at the PRINTING United show in Dallas, October 23-25, 2019.

Epson America has introduced its first desktop dye-sublimation printer – the 24-inch SureColor® F570. Delivering fast, reliable dye-sublimation printing right out of the box, the new SureColor F570 is ideal for promotional products and apparel decoration, including personalizing awards, mugs, mousepads, and garment embellishments. The new printer will be on display in Epson's booth (#5410 and #5610) at PRINTING United in Dallas, Tex. from Oct. 23-25, 2019.

As digital printing technology continues to advance, textiles businesses are increasingly seeing the benefits of digital inkjet. In fact, the adoption of digital printing technologies was estimated at 6% of all printed textiles at the end of last year, accounting for 2.6 billion square meters of printed fabric.