ImagesMagUK_August_20

www.images-magazine.com 02 images AUGUST 2020 SHOP TALK 04 Editorial 08 Print Shop Pooches # 57 Bentley from Oz Schoolwear in Orpington 12 Readers’ choice 16 Decorated product of the month 88 Up close & personal Lars Bech of Neutral NEWS HUB 06 Industry news Shirt Monkey adds fourth Kornit Avalanche HD6, Brother announces new GTXPro and PolyPrint launches PreTreater Pro KNOWLEDGE BASE 22 The Business Clinic How to handle redundancies, and tips for ecommerce websites 24 Digital helpdesk Brian Walker of Image Armor explains how to calculate the correct volume of pretreatment for the best DTG prints 28 Anatomy of a print Mike Hayes of My T Shirt Printers reveals how he put his grey matter to the test when designing The Creative Brain print 30 Amazing fills with minimum fuss Brenden Prazner decreases stitch counts and increases impact using Wilcom’s new Maze Fill 34 Accelerate your art department Marshall Atkinson pictures the ideal art department, and helps you draw up a strategy that will deliver increased speed and quality 69 Driving change Matthew Reveley of Fast Fix Mobile Mechanics talks about why he changed his workwear supplier to one h e felt truly valued him 78 Banana and salad cream sandwiches What to know what the best white ink is? Forget it and focus on your application skills instead, advises screen print guru Tony Palmer 80 ‘Chaos theory’ - Part 2 Will Pearson concludes his in-depth examination of how your print shop can benefit from adopting Toyota’s lean culture 82 Happy hooping Erich Campbell gives an overview of the hooping process, including how to select and use the most appropriate equipment for your needs SUPPLIER FOCUS 39 Mid-year supplier focus Catch up on new and newsworthy apparel, accessories, equipment, software and consumables from leading industry brands and suppliers PRODUCT FOCUS 58 Fashion forward We review the top post- lockdown trends in fashion and streetwear 65 Hard workers We round up the latest workwear and safetywear options for your clients 70 Face value As face coverings become ‘normal’, here are the most recent additions to this growing sector 72 Click into place We review the industry software solutions that help manage everything from production workflow to ecommerce 76 Telling it like it is: Industry software This month, three garment decorators talk to us about how their software systems are working out for them INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 36 Ink outside the box VinoSangre Screen Printing’s founder Mikee Parker talks to Mark Ludmon about tattoos, hard work, and how to build a print shop with punk rock attitude CONTENTS NOW AVAILABLE FROM SEEPAGES26-27FOR THE FULLEXCLUSIVESTORY 26 38 36 58 28 69 30