The Fabric Graphics Association announced the 2011 Membership Scholarship award in the amount of $2,000. This scholarship provides tuition expenses at an accredited college, university or technical school. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic achievement, community service, financial need and interest in a future career in the specialty fabrics industry. The scholarship [...]

By Jeff Leagon If you are in the specialty fabrics industry, you’re aware of the sharp price increases that have occurred in recent months. As a buyer, you anticipate the increases and try to minimize them. As a seller, you pass through the increases in a way that is consistent with what your competitors are [...]

By Jos Notermans The technology of digital printing on textiles offers a lot of very attractive advantages, such as an unlimited amount of colors to be used in a design or the absence of a repeat. But it also has its challenges. Among those is the issue of through-print. For items like flags or fashion [...]

By Francisco De Brito As more textiles are being used for soft signage, one question that arises from the print technology is, “How can you color manage textiles?” It is done the same as other types of media. However, certain criteria have to be met in order to obtain the best print quality. Inks have [...]

Fabric graphics displays define spaces and offer opportunities. By Sigrid Tornquist Trade show booths. Retail displays. Stage backdrops. What do they have in common? Visual communication. With only seconds to get noticed, strong visuals are key to drawing people into your trade show booth, your retail store or your story. Graphic displays reshape a space [...]

Learn how to communicate color, achieve accurate color results and control color effectively within your organization and throughout your supply chain, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. By Mark Gundlach Editor's note: X-Rite Color Services partnered with Fabric Graphics on a two-part series about the challenges involved in communicating color, the human aspect [...]

Fabric graphics experts outline three important themes that allow their digital printing businesses to thrive. By Holly O’Dell Whether you operate a small print shop or oversee hundreds of orders a day, those who work in the fabric graphics industry know that it can be a very competitive—even cutthroat—business. We talked to printers and other [...]

By Kelly Frush Imagine a project so huge and specialized that there are no other projects in comparison. The NASCAR Hall of Fame asked Thomas Sign Creations of Charlotte, N.C., to create just that: a 6,000-square-foot photomural for its Grand Hall that sits above a high-banked race track and bends along a curved wall. Jack [...]

By Pat Hayes, CPP In 2001, after being in business for nine years, our company was faced with a decision about the existing facility. The business continued to grow, and with growth came a need for more space by expanding from one unit to three of a four unit building, with no possibility of taking [...]

The JV34-260 superwide inkjet printer from Mimaki can handle widths up to 2.6-meters. Two newly developed printheads in a staggered arrangement facilitate a print speed of approximately 30-square-meters per hour. The printer is compatible with water-based, solvent or sublimation inks on a wide variety of materials, including polyester. SOURCE Mimaki