General > Industry shows

who's going to Long Beach 2023?

<< < (3/5) > >>

zanegun08:
If you are still at the show today come by the East West Booth so I can put a face to a username.

I'll be at the East West Machines booth most of the day, #3109 next to ROQ and Supacolor.  Say hi and let me know who you are!

Brandon, I'm going to hunt down your print today and see if I can find it.

SERJ:
Hello everyone, it's a shame that I couldn't visit

brandon:
For those of us that couldn't visit could someone please give a recap of the show or start a new thread about it?

Thanks!!!

zanegun08:
Brandon, I tracked down your prints!  They displayed it in a way that you couldn't see any sleeves or anything but they looked great!  I dig the Wizard with the puff ink.

Hopefully someone can do their own recap, but this was my first show working on the other side as a "vendor", I was helping out Eric with the https://eastwestmachines.com booth and we had a very positive experience.  The carousel heat press was one of the biggest buzzes of the show, although I may have some biases on that opinion as I'm involved with the company.

However we had a lot of interest from people entering the industry that don't currently print and want to produce faster.  As well as Etsy sellers and business models outside the ones we have all been in on this board which were very excited with East West.

Outside of that, there were tons of DTF options, they had INO https://grafcoast.com/en/digital-machine/ino-sa.html which I've never seen at the show before which was a cool piece of equipment but more for transfer producers like Stahls, TKO, Supacolor.

Brother had a crazy 3 DTG printer that would compete with the ROQ Now, M&R Polaris, OVALJET, that was pretty wild looking, you can see it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC2OSgHgjRA

Michelle had all the designs that were printing on the Polaris designed with AI which of course she always has really cool artwork, but the AI stuff is next level because sometimes it creates details an artist wouldn't do, but that has really cool results.  I missed her AI talk as I was at the booth but I'll try to post it online if I can find it on Youtube.

Other than that, I didn't see anything that really popped out, but I see transfers are going to continue to improve and become a larger part of the industry to compliment screen print, and with East West automatic you can apply them in speeds more comparable to screen printing press.

rusty:
cool stuff.

I heard there was also a lot of new smaller tshirt companies who are being very price competitive with the bigger manufacturers.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page