New ROLAND BN2-20 whats the difference?

HI all! So new ROLAND BN2-20 has landed and is ready to replace much loved ROLAND BN-20/A What is it and what the difference? is it worth to buy it and replace your existing machine? Here is what ROLAND website has to say: Roland DG Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and printer/cutters worldwide, today announced the addition of the BN2-20 and BN2-20A desktop inkjet printer/cutters to its VersaSTUDIO product lineup. “Since our founding in 1981, we have been providing digital solutions that enable anyone to easily do…

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Halftone Maker for DTG – script download

Halftone Maker for DTG – save money on ink and make screen printing looking t-shirts with your DTG machine     Halftone Maker for DTG is a script for Adobe Photoshop that will help to achieve a simulated process effect when printing with DTG. Printing images turned into halftones will help you save a great deal of your cash on ink! To explain best what Simulated process and halftone are please see the video below.             Before processing and after. DOWNLOAD Halftone Maker for DTG…

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How to hoop baseball hat on Brother PR670e Multi needle embroidery machine

How do I hoop baseball hats for my embroidery machine? Hooping hats was one of the most challenging tasks I experienced after purchasing a multi-needle embroidery machine. It took many, many hats to learn and I think I did found my sweet spot for doing them! Here is a very short video of me hooping a baseball hat on the jig.  Ps. excuse messy t-shirt 🙂

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Sublimation face mask printing – full bleed

sublimation face coverings Face coverings are the “New Normal” if we want it or not. It gives the opportunity to change over from our usual products that don’t sell as well as they use to. New reality forced us to think outside of the box to keep our business running. For example, the signage industry is extremely busy with making stickers/decals with COVID warnings. 2m social distancing etc; Same with sublimation part of the industry.  Almost every country affected by COVID-19 use face coverings of all sorts to stop the…

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Making rhinestone stencil for a shopping bag

Rhinestones are one of the few things that will allow you to add extra value to your printed apparel. T-shirts printed with rhinestones can be sold for the double or triple price than one that is printed with normal heat transfer vinyl. What you will need for using rhinestones? It’s quite possible you already have most of the stuff as you already print so t-shirts, but in case you don’t, here is the list with links you can purchase all of them. You will need the cutter. Most of the…

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Adding cutline to raster image for Roland print and cut

Adding cutlines to a raster file many times can prove difficult. In my video, I will show you my way of creating cutline for raster images Ie; JPG, PNG. You will need to have basic skills in Adobe Illustrator to be able to follow this short video. Please note, to create cutline, some images may contain a little bit more or fewer steps depend on the image you use, but in general, the principle is the same.

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New sublimation printers from Sawgrass. SG500 and SG1000

A few hours ago we found out about two new Sublimation printers that Sawgrass released this month. Very similar in look to their younger brothers SG400 and SG800 but packed with many new futures. Well, what else can you fit in one printer you asked? Judging by the Sawgrass official website, quite a few. Here it is what Sawgrass have to say about their new products. Available from March, the Sawgrass SG500 and SG1000 desktop sublimation printers have been specifically engineered to bring high-definition, high-speed printing with overwhelming power saving…

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