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General => Industry shows => Topic started by: blue moon on January 09, 2023, 03:05:15 PM
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I know Maxie is coming on Thursday. I will be there friday (afternoon?).
Who else?
Are we meeting?
pierre
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i'll be there. East West has a booth in the ROQ atrium, and we are bringing a bunch of Night Owls staff as well!
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i'll be there. East West has a booth in the ROQ atrium, and we are bringing a bunch of Night Owls staff as well!
Are you going to have doughnuts? If you do I will stop by! :)
pierre
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you going to have doughnuts?
Will have mints to help with the hangover breath!
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When we had a booth at Baseball Winter Meetings we had bowl of aspirin and one of antacid tablets. Gotta know your crowd. Of course we had candy and mints, too.
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you going to have doughnuts?
Will have mints to help with the hangover breath!
yeah we're gonna have mints!! and lots of give aways.
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I know Maxie is coming on Thursday. I will be there friday (afternoon?).
Who else?
Are we meeting?
pierre
I'm going. Can't wait, been 4 years so looking forward to being on the floor again. If I see you I'll be sure to say hey.
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friday 2pm at Eric's booth.
Be there or be square!
pj
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friday 2pm at Eric's booth.
Be there or be square!
pj
yeah that would be killer! i'd def. buy donuts for that!
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Unfortunately, due to medical stuff at home I can't make this year. But Union Ink asked us to design and print a shirt for Relentless Merch and they had Relentless Merch design and print one for us. Had to be a "Metal" design. So we went all out and did fronts, backs, sleeves, and inside the shirt. We printed lyrics from 1981 Van Halen inside the shirt but backwards so if you hold it up to a mirror you can read the secret message.
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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.
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Hello everyone, it's a shame that I couldn't visit
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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!!!
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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 (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 (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 (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.
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cool stuff.
I heard there was also a lot of new smaller tshirt companies who are being very price competitive with the bigger manufacturers.
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Wasn't there personally but looks like we have a SAATI LTS, Lotus Holland auto reclaimer, ROQ Stampinator, and a SAATI dual pro coater on the way, plus some ancillary items.
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Hey Zane, i believe Redwall has been running that Brother unit in the real world for maybe a year now? I believe they are a "testing ground" for Brother DTG.
Then yeah I'll have to post some pics of the shirt and inside backwards Van Halen lyrics hehehe
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It was just crazy to watch since they all moved independently and had less platens than in the video so it seemed like organized chaos.
Tony, congrats on all the new toys, we were right next to all those at the ROQ booth, they are all great pieces of equipment!
Stampinator is a great tool, I see a lot of places buy them and let it sit on a shelf, hope you put it to good use for under bases / fiber matte and many other benefits. I find it interesting that ROQ US doesn't just promote their own inline heat press https://www.roqinternational.com/en/product//roq-level (https://www.roqinternational.com/en/product//roq-level)
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My Long Beach notes (after four years of being away):
* Very well attended; spent a lot of time catching up which was really fun & good. So many people that more than once I left booths because there were so many people and I was just stopping by to say hello. The industry was out and happy to have a show to walk
* Yes, tons of DTF, so much in fact that I'm thinking of waiting another year before jumping in to see if anything/any company shakes out or separates themselves from the pack. We also print a lot of large coverage spot color work with PMS matching, so would have to really think about how to dial in a system to account for PMS matching/getting close enough.
* As someone else said, AI was a part of so many conversations. From vendors demonstrating AI-generated designs (M&R) to AI being the focal point of the Ink Kitchen's talk on future of the industry; it's certainly on people's minds. People are trying to figure out how to use it to help improve workflow, push content, and speed up production.
* Lots of smaller apparel vendors, I got some names but since we're east coast I'm a lot more picky as to whether I want to work with a shipping-only-from-CA smaller outfit. Seems like earth tones and pastel type colors are still popular. LA T's is offering more prints (snake skin, cheetah like prints..).
* Ink manufacturers: not as many as used to be with so many under the Avient umbrella.
* various reclaim systems from Bluewater to Image Technology to the European ones.
all in all, a good show!
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Hey Zane, are are some quick pics. We did Relentless Merch on the front, Union Avient logos on the sleeves, and Van Halen lyrics inside the shirt but backwards. If you hold it up in the mirror like in the picture you can read them. It was on Comfort Colors with Magna Discharge and Union White. Hand drawn art from Ben in the art department and scanned in like the 80s. Tried to keep it old school!
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NICE! The best VH song
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NICE! The best VH song
Thanks! This one and Unchained for me. Plus on Unchained Eddie's guitar tone is sick. He didn't know it but he set the tone for half the Death Metal bands out there
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Ha, I will make sure to bring these up at my next get together as I have already annoyed everyone about Venom being the most influential band in terms of sound, etc.
But thats for another forum.
Hopefully others can chime in about highlights from the convention. Excited for this new year!