Direct to Garment Printing - I've gone and done it!

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Congrats, your other emoployer giving you a holiday or is this a change in direction mate?

I have a week off from the day job and I going to collect my Neoflex from the show. I spending the duration of the show on the Neoflex stand for training but they're also paying me Great guys.

Cheers

John

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Well, what a tough week at FESPA!

I arrived at Munich Airport on Monday 26th the day before FESPA started . I got a taxi to the Messe Munchen (Exhibition Centre) and found the guys from All American at their stand. Spent the whole day helping them get things together and of course got a peek at the Neoflex Never seen one in the flesh before.

Anyway, I spent the rest of the week dealing with visitors to the stand, to say it was hectic is an understatment. The AA stand was certainly one of the busiest. The Neoflex textile printer was busy continually churning out dark shirt after dark shirt with amazing colour vibrancy - I was not disappointed

I've taken stacks of pictures and video and when I get a spare moment, I'll post some here.

I guess if there's one thing I regret it's not having the tme to get around the show, we were just flat out all the time. But, the show was so vast, I could hae spent the week looking around.

Cheers

John

Oh, my Neoflex sysem will be here soon - arrived in the UK today, I think!

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A couple of pictures









Printson untreated wood


and golf balls




..... and a couple of videos

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Ge92AyN3s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Ge92AyN3s[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdcfFHXOQY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdcfFHXOQY[/url]

[John G]

Hi John,
Does the ink key onto the golf balls or would it scratch off/wear off during play.

Cheers John

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Hi John

There are in fact 2 printers, the textile (NEOTEX) and a solvent (NEOSOL) - I've purchased both and they have totally different applications.

The golf balls were printed using the solvent printer and the result is very hardy. We tried scratching the print off with our nails but couldn't make any impression at all.

The solvent printer has a built in heater which open the microscopic pores of the surface ad then lays down the ink which gets trapped in the pores. That's the theory anyway.

John

[GoldRapt]

Cool, Thanks for the update

[Paul]

[Andrew]

Love that bit of kit. I'd spend all my time playing with it and bever get any real work done.

When you get your pricing worked out I might be able to send some work your way.

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Will do Andrew, when I've got it all set-up and got over my initial fright of the beast - I'll need to keep it busy

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Not sure whether you need to be brave or stupid to wear this one!!!