INDUSTRY NEWS www.images-magazine.com 06 images APRIL 2022 Follow the links to the full news stories online www.images-magazine.com M&R launches high-speed Polaris DTG printer Screen-printing specialist M&R has launched Polaris, an industrial highspeed direct-to-garment (DTG) printer that the company reports can achieve over 320 prints per hour. In development for three years, the new machine is said to merge the durability of M&R’s Stryker automatic oval screen printing press with the print engines of the DS 4000 Digital Squeegee hybrid printing system. Set to be introduced globally including the UK, the new machine is fitted with two high-speed digital print engines – one white, one CMYK – which are each equipped with 16 Ricoh Gen 5 print heads. It has a compact on-board pretreater, inline heat presses and quartz flashes, and can be operated clockwise or anti-clockwise. It can print on triblend in multiple colours and blended fabrics with polyester as well as 100% cotton. It cannot currently be used for 100% polyester, but M&R is working on developing more applications. M&R reports that the Polaris can print over 320 prints an hour for a 35.6cm by 40.6cm format at 600×600 resolution in four-pass mode on dark 100% cotton fabric. It has a list price of around £600,000, which includes a start-up kit, spare part kit, training and support, plus a crating charge, making it suitable for larger print shops, especially those servicing the print-on-demand market. imagesmag.uk/mrpolaris The cover of Result’s new Padded brochure M&R’s new Polaris DTG printer Creative Apparel sold after going into administration Creative Apparel, a specialist in garment printing and embroidery, has been sold after it went into administration in the wake of trading losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Stockport-based business and all its assets have been sold by joint administrators Rick Harrison and Howard Smith from Interpath Advisory to a new company, Apparel Services Limited. The deal, announced on 4 March, has saved the jobs of 14 of its staff who have transferred their employment to Apparel Services under TUPE regulations. The company’s premises in Oakfield Road in Stockport have been sold to a separate new company, Oakfield RD Limited, which is owned by the same third party. The administrators were appointed after Creative Apparel suffered trading losses in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the administrators said that sales to one of the company’s significant customers reduced materially during 2021. The company had also begun construction of a new manufacturing facility in 2020 and experienced cashflow pressures as a result of increasing construction costs and project delays. It was concluded on 3 March that it was in the best interests of the creditors for the company to be placed into administration. Founded in Stockport in 1988, Creative Apparel employed over 80 people at its height and was led by founder and managing director Phil Millar. imagesmag.uk/creative-sold Creative Apparel was placed into administration in March Result releases new Padded outerwear range brochure Clothing brand Result has released a new brochure dedicated to its Padded range of outerwear. It presents all styles with both lifestyle and product photography, providing all details on the garments, including decoration options, in English, German and French. It is available both as a hard copy printed on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and for downloading, with in-depth garment specs and printable PDF data sheets for all the new styles that have been launched. Result’s Padded range features garments with two layers of fabric, with a synthetic alternative to down placed in between, which creates a vacuum where the outside cold air exchanges with the warmth of the body to keep its wearer fully insulated. imagesmag.uk/result-padded
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