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SGIA Expo Atlanta 2015 – Why Go to Shows?

Photo of Ray Miles and I. Ray has a shop in Jamaica. I have corresponded with him for many years and finally got to meet him. The best part of our industry trade shows is meeting up with other printers, meeting new ones, seeing ones you already know. Lord knows our friends, families and employees…

How Many Shirts Should We Print for Our Event?

10%   That could be the article, just 10%. In thirty years of printing, once I saw 30% of a crowd at an event or congress buy shirts. That was in a perfect confluence of great positive energy and a fantastic design. Mostly I see 5 to 10% no matter how good the design is.…

Hoover Dam

Let me say upfront that this post has little to do with screenprinting.  But, I thought it was worth posting as I’m sure that most of you, like me, end up in Las Vegas on occasion to attend any one of the many trade shows in our industry. Between the SGIA Expo, PPAI Expo, MAGIC, and…

The Ink Kitchen goes to FESPA Digital 2014– part four

The FESPA digital show in Munich was not only a great exposition on what is going on in printing, but it also shows the potential for trade shows themselves to be so much more than what we typically see in the US of A. This is not exactly what we see when we go for…

The Ink Kitchen goes to FESPA Digital 2014 – part one

A few notes from  FESPA Digital in Munich, Germany: Progressive companies in the USA are now part of a global system, they are here in Munich seeing what is going on. Environmentalism is not dead, the rest of the world is passing the USA by. Not so many heads in the sand here (or is…