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Join Us in Toronto this June – Stahls’ Canada National Tour

May 14, 2013 by Josh Ellsworth

Stahls’ Canada is getting ready to kick off their national tour event and I’m excited to be presenting at their all day event in Toronto on June 12th. Until May 15th, early registration is at half off, so you can get signed up for only $10.  That’s a steal and I can guarantee that we’ll teach you how to make that much back on your first pair of heat printed shoes:)  I’m still getting together the exact presentation I’ll be […]

Categories: Thoughts On The Go • Tags: canada, class, heat printing, stahls, tour

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A Great Day to Share this Photo and a Birthday T-Shirt Idea

March 21, 2013 by Josh Ellsworth

I wanted to share a photo of my beautiful niece Delilah Jane wearing a personalized t-shirt. We made the onesie for her 1st birthday celebration which will be this Saturday:)  Customizing t-shirts for birthdays and other special events is a great opportunity.  For this design, my sister sketched out the concept and we recreated it with CADWORXLive.com.  Printing the cupcake on Express Print for the zebra pattern effect and then dropping the Pink Glitter Flake on top for the icing. […]

Categories: Heat Applied Film (Cadcut), Thoughts On The Go • Tags: birthday, customization, down syndrome day, express print, fashion film electric, glitter flake, personalized, photo, t-shirt

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Thoughts from the 1st Quarter – What do you think?

March 18, 2013 by Josh Ellsworth

I can finally see light at the end of the first quarter tunnel.  March is over mid way through and although there is an ice storm this morning in southwestern PA, Spring is just a couple of days away.  It’s a good time to look back at the beginning of the year, check our New Year goals against our progress and ultimately form an outlook for the balance of 2013.  I’d like to share some thoughts to that end, of […]

Categories: Business, Thoughts On The Go • Tags: decorated apparel, direct to garment printing, Embroidery, events, heat printing, industry, market, pricing, screen printing, trends

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Master Decorator Series, Greg Kitson on Running Your Own Business

February 20, 2013 by Josh Ellsworth

The Imprinted Sportswear Shows have incorporated a new Master Decorator Series as part of their educational curriculum for shows this year.  We’re lucky enough to have Courtney Matlick from Stahls’ covering the heat printing topic in the series and recently one of the attendees passed along some comments to industry expert Greg Kitson who has helped to organize the program. Greg was nice enough to forward the comments on.  For those of you who don’t know Greg he is well-respected […]

Categories: Business, People, Places, Thoughts On The Go • Tags: courtney matlick, education, greg kitson, iss shows, master decorator, testimonial

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New Blog Look, New Opportunities, New Video – Welcome to 2013

January 26, 2013 by Josh Ellsworth

Times are changing…It seems like I’ve been on a whirlwind tour through all the warm parts of the country over the last few weeks and I’m not quite done yet.  January/February is a whirlwind of trade show activity.  Managed to get a day of Disney World with my family, a speaking opportunity at ASI Orlando, my first ASI trade show experience in Orlando, 4 customer visits with our Florida sales rep Mark Schwarb, a couple of days in Fort Lauderdale […]

Categories: Thoughts On The Go • Tags: 2013, asi, education, glitter flake, heat printing, iss shows, josh ellsworth, new blog look, sgia, stahls

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Who is Gideon Sundback? Unzip Your Imagination with Heat Printing Video

April 24, 2012 by Josh Ellsworth

Our video production manager, Joe Kosinski visited Google this morning and found the “Google doodle” of a zipper that can be clicked and unzipped to reveal search results about Gideon Sundback, the inventor of the modern-day zipper. Since the zipper is essential in the construction of many apparel types we thought, why not come up with a creative little video showcasing a zip up garment being decorated to promote apparel customization. I hope you enjoy the video and get a […]

Categories: Thoughts On The Go, Videos • Tags: customized clothing, gideon sundback, google doodle, heat press, heat printing, stahls

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Hotronix Fusion and Super Film at Work at NBA All Star Jam Session

February 23, 2012 by Josh Ellsworth

I’m a huge basketball fan and really enjoy watching the NBA All Star Game each year.  In the past, I’ve had the opportunity to attend a few of the games to help heat print custom All Star jerseys with names and numbers.  It’s a great experience to see the fans reaction when they connect the fact that they can have the East or West jersey with their name on it, and I love that jersey customization is powered by heat […]

Categories: Customization, Heat Applied Film (Cadcut), Print/Cut Process, Roland GX-24, The Heat Press, Thoughts On The Go, Versacamm, Vinyl Cutters • Tags: fusion, gx-24, heat printing, hotronix, jam session, jerseys, nba all star, roland, transfer numbers

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Predictions for 2012 – Online Marketing for Your Apparel Business

January 12, 2012 by Josh Ellsworth

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that each year in January I  link over to Ted Stahl’s blog where along with others in the Groupe Stahl family of companies contribute predictions for the upcoming year. It’s an honor to contribute and really fun to think of what’s next in our industry. Here’s the links to the short series of predictions regarding online marketing for your business that I have contributed this year.  I […]

Categories: Business, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Thoughts On The Go • Tags: apparel decorating, Embroidery, facebook, heat printing, online marketing, predictions, screen printing, ted stahl

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Wake Up and Bring the Bling to Your Customers!

December 13, 2011 by Josh Ellsworth

Business owners like you or your boss are always looking for ways to make the sale or in some cases make more money on the sale.  One of the most effective ways to make more money on a sale is to up sell the customer to a more profitable product. With apparel decorating one of my favorite ways to do this is to take a customer design and elevate it. Say this line out loud with a little sales swagger: […]

Categories: Customization, Heat Applied Film (Cadcut), HPY General Discussion, Thoughts On The Go, Videos, Vinyl Cutters • Tags: bling, electric, foil, glitter, glitter flake, heat press, heat press vinyl, heat transfer film, stahls, super glitter, ultra

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Invitation to the SGIA Show & Stahls’ Heat Printing Zone

October 13, 2011 by Josh Ellsworth

The SGIA Expo 2011 will be in New Orleans October 19-21 with hundreds of exhibitors showcasing the latest technology. There will be numerous educational zones on the show floor, including the Digital Apparel Zone in booth 3125 and the Screen Printed Apprarel Training Zone in booth 3319. In booth 3625 you’ll find Stahls’ Heat Printing Zone, featuring industry experts from around the world offering free, live, hands-on and how-to demonstrations. You’ll see the Magic of Heat Printing unfold, right before […]

Categories: Places, Thoughts On The Go • Tags: heat printing, invite, screen printing, sgia, show, ted stahl, zone

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Who’s Next? Why not Adidas with their Under the Lights Uniforms?

September 6, 2011 by Josh Ellsworth

The beat goes on…we’ve seen a record number of hits to the blog as we’ve shared with you progressive looks for this years college football uniforms from sporting goods powerhouses Nike and Under Armour.  Now all eyes turn to Adidas. The University of Michigan will play Notre Dame this weekend on Saturday night (9-10-11) at 8:00pm EST on ESPN. Both teams will be decked out in Adidas’ Under the Lights throwback  jerseys to commemorate the first night game played in […]

Categories: Customization, Team Uniforms, Thoughts On The Go • Tags: adidas, jerseys, michigan, names, notre dame, numbers, printing, stahls, team uniforms, transfer film, twill, under the lights

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NEW!! CAD-CUT Premium Plus Samples & Cartoons

May 19, 2011 by Josh Ellsworth

I told you it was coming!  Today we launched the free samples of the NEW CAD-CUT® Premium Plus over on T-Shirtforums.com If you missed it there, you can still get on the list by clicking this link and completing your info: CLICK HERE NOW! As I mentioned a few days ago, this product will represent the new look, feel, performance and price of heat applied film. If you missed how we released it, I’ll share a little bit….we created a 3 […]

Categories: Business, Customization, Finance, Heat Applied Film (Cadcut), Thoughts On The Go, Videos

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