Transfers Offer Solution For Hard-To-Decorate Items
Sep/110
Almost everyone is familiar with the fact that transfers are a great decorating medium for just about any type of apparel that is made of cotton, polyester, or a cotton/poly blend.
What you may not realize is that Transfer Express offers two distinct types of transfers: screen printed and digital. Screen printed transfers are limited to the traditional cotton and polyester fabrics, but digital transfers such as CAD-PRINTZ™ Opaque will go on almost anything you can fit in a heat press and can be created in unlimited colors.
This opens the doors to a much wider range of apparel and promotional items including nylon team uniforms, umbrellas, swim suits, and leather goods.
When Illinois Glove Co., Northbrook, Ill., was looking for a solution to print full-color logos on gloves for its promotional product customers, CAD-PRINTZ™ turned into a great solution for the company.
Prior to using Transfer Express, the manufacturer was screen printing one-color logos onto gloves. “Screen printing was a mess,” notes Jay Shmikler, director of sales and marketing. “Because the glove was made of a knit fabric, the print would fall into the little mesh holes. We could do only one color with screen printing, and then we lost out on orders to other products that could offer multiple color logos.”
Today, the company uses Easy Prints for one-color orders and CAD PRINTZ for full-color logos. Another reason digital transfers have been such a great match is the wide range of materials that gloves are made of.
“We offer gloves for automotive, construction, farm, ranch, trucking companies, freezer gloves for people who are stocking shelves in the grocery stores, and safety awards; you name it, we have probably done it,” says Shmikler.
So when choosing a decorating process, it’s important to match the right method to the glove material.
“We have certain types of gloves that we use Easy Prints,” says the director. “If the glove stretches, we have to make sure we get Easy Prints because that stretches. If the logo has a lot of detail, we use CAD-PRINTZ. So when someone comes to us with an eight-color logo, CAD-PRINTZ looks amazing. You can get shading that you really can’t get in a screen printed transfer.”
As a steady customer for the past four years, Shmikler has been satisfied with the product and the customer service. “They are good at returning calls, they are professional and they’re easy to deal with.”
If you have a customer come in with a hard-to-decorate item, next time, don’t turn them away. Investigate if using a digital transfer may be the perfect solution!
Switching from direct screen printing to screen printed and digital transfers solved several embellishing challenges for Illinois Glove Co. faced when decorating gloves for promotional product clientele. Photo courtesy of Illinois Glove Co., Northbrook, Ill.
Celebrate Your Patriotism And Your Independence From Boring Transfers! – Today is “Decoration Day” with our new product, Transfer Extreme!
May/110
Transfer Extreme™ Layout USA-7
STAHLS’ Transfer Express® is well-known throughout the industry as being the industry leader in providing its customers with custom transfers. We set the bar with our one-day shipping of our Easy Prints® screen-printed transfers using our Idea Book™ catalog of thousands of available designs, layouts, and clipart. We’re also established as an innovative company, constantly employing new technologies and adding new products to our ever-expanding collection. Most recently, this has included CAD-PRINTZ™ digital transfers, Foil, Glow-In-The-Dark, and non-apparel Banners, Stickers, Wall Graphics, and Window Clings.
Today, we are proud to announce the introduction of our newest product. Transfer Extreme™ is a transfer that is screen-printed with plastisol inks using an inventive simulated 4-color printing process. The end result gives your customer a beautifully screen-printed graphic, allowing for extremely intricate designs and vibrant colors. The image quality is very comparable to that of digital transfers, but with the much softer hand of screen-printing.
Other transfer companies offering similar products are forced to deliver you a very hard, heavy graphic in order to deliver similar image quality. Or, they have to sacrifice the quality in order to provide a softer hand. Transfer Extreme provides both quality and soft feel, AND is VERY easy to apply: 4 seconds! Using one of STAHLS’ Hotronix® heat presses set on 365 degrees, Transfer Extreme applies in just 4 seconds. [Transfer Extreme Application Instructions] You can screen-print 4 colors in just 4 seconds! (Well, actually, it’s MORE than 4 colors, but who’s counting?!) Transfer Extreme applies to cotton, polyester, and cotton/polyester material, and works on both light and dark fabric.
Layouts USA-9 and USA-7
Just in time for Memorial Day, in preparation for your customers’ 4th of July Independence Day celebrations, and in advance of the 10th anniversary of 9-11-01, we are offering Transfer Extreme in the form of patriotic/Americana-themed stock transfers. There are 10 fabulous designs for you to choose from, available in the form of individual packs of 10 transfers for just $20. Or, if you can’t make up your mind, there are 2 separate variety packs available containing 2 of each of 5 of the designs.
Transfer Extreme™ Layout USA-1
The designs are patriotic, yet edgy, and are perfect for your customers’ summertime fashion. Try putting them on zipper hoods or burnout tees for the alternative look the teens love!
Transfer Extreme™ Layout USA-11
Transfer Extreme™ Layout USA-5
STAHLS’ Transfer Express is very excited about this fantastic new product, and we are sure that you will be, too. With more to come in the future, today please give your customers the opportunity to celebrate America with Transfer Extreme!
Transfer Extreme™ layout USA-8
Helmet Stickers Are A Great Add On Sale
Mar/110
Whatever the sport—we have the helmet stickers to decorate and number the team. Our stickers apply easily to baseball, lacrosse, bike or football helmets and are full color! You can send us your own art to create a custom helmet sticker or use our Easy Prints® ideas and clip art—just let us know the colors and the size! The stickers are durable, water and fade resistant for outdoor wear. If you have placed an order for your customer’s uniform, we can reduce the logo for the helmet also. Stickers can be purchased as individual logos, in number/decal packs or numbers only.
The Number/Decal Packs are perfect for handing out to the team to personalize each helmet. Each pack has a 4” x 4” space for a logo (you can do one large, two small or even multiple reward stickers), and 13, 1.6” numbers—the perfect size for the back of a helmet. In addition, each pack has space for a store name/address or motivational message for the team. For example, on each pack you can put “MVP Sporting Goods wishes the Mentor Cardinals the best of luck this season”, or just your company name and address so the team knows who to call when they need more stickers.
Helmet Sticker using Easy Prints® Clip ArtHelmet Decal Packs come with numbers and logos.
Helmet Decal Packs come with numbers and logos.
New CAD-PRINTZ banners for add-on sales
Feb/110
Banners are something that we see almost everyday when we are driving to work, at a store or watching your kid’s sports game. Custom banners are everywhere and we’ve now given our customers the opportunity to capture those sales that can coincide with t shirt orders.
When to offer them and how to sell banners is something our customers may not be used to if they haven’t offered this service in the past. Here are some great ways that banners can be used to add profits to your business.
Haven’t purchased a banner before? The best way to get started is to jump right in. We’ve all seen banners before and have a general idea of what they look and feel like. Several Transfer Express customers have started by purchasing a banner that states that they are “Now Offering Full Color Banners!” Advertise to your customers using the same products that they will receive.
Companies love to use banners to advertise their business, communicate specials and promote events. Next time a local company comes in to order t shirts for their next charity event or holiday gathering, mention to them they can also use their same design on a banner to improve the success of their event.
Custom Banners advertise store openings, specials and events!
Sporting events can also produce large crowds that sponsors of the team would love to get their logo seen by. During baseball season when a league organizer comes in for uniforms, offer a banner with the player names, sponsor logos etc. At the beginning of the season, banners are needed to get the word out to the community that player sign-ups are underway.
Spread school spirit with custom banners using Easy Prints® layouts
Full color banners are printed using a lightweight vinyl that is great for indoor and short-term outdoor use. Just choose your design and size and type of material (glossy or luster) to place your order. If you don’t have a design, use one of our Easy Prints® layouts that can easily be made into a eye-catching, full color banner.
Baseball T-shirts & More
Apr/090
Spring is here and baseball season has begun. But you wouldn’t know it here in Mentor, Ohio…it’s been snowing the past 2 days!
This month’s new layout is a 3D Layout. This layout will work great as either a Photo Print for white garments and CAD-PRINTZ™ for dark garments as shown in the photo on the right. You can customize the text and text colors in this layout.
You can view more 3D Layouts here.
New CAD-PRINTZ™ – Full color digital transfers
Jan/090
Heat print on virtually any fabric with as many colors as you would like with Transfer Express’ new full color transfer, CAD-PRINTZ™. Dealers are realizing they can say “yes” to any print job by using this advanced product for even detailed and colorful designs. These CAD-PRINTZ™ are digitally printed using Transfer Express’ artwork out of the Idea Book or by using your custom artwork. So, even if there is shading and special effects CAD-PRINTZ™ will be printed to your exact artwork and with no minimums. It is the most versatile product in the industry. Don’t worry about how many colors you have in your artwork because pricing is based on size and quantity. If you do have your own artwork, you can upload the design on Transfer Express’ website. Once your order is placed the turnaround time is only 2-3 days! Ask a Dealer Services rep for more information or to get samples of CAD-PRINTZ™ sent out for you.
