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Come See Image Armor at the Long Beach ISS January 20th-22nd 2017

January 6, 2017: Make sure to come and see THE BIGGEST textile decorating show this year! January 20th, 2017 will kick off the Long Beach Imprinted Sportswear Show. Image Armor will be present in booth #442 with RTP Apparel showcasing our inks, pretreatments, and the newest an most innovative product of 2017 – RTP Apparel’s Ready To Print [...]

DON’T LET AN INK DROUGHT DRY UP YOUR BUSINESS

January 5, 2017: DON’T LET AN INK DROUGHT DRY UP YOUR BUSINESS With the arrival of 2017 the world seems to be in turmoil. Economic uncertainty. Wars. Environmental change. Droughts. There is always something that can affect your life. Don’t let an “Ink Drought” affect your business. Image Armor is the answer to any ink shortages you might be experiencing. [...]

No Pretreatment vs RTP Apparel Garment with Image Armor Technology

January 5, 2017: We wanted to show you EXACTLY why you want to use the RTP Apparel garments that utilize our Image Armor pretreatment technology. This is especially true for a white T-Shirt. We’ve heard from many DTG’ers the question – “Why pay more, or a premium, for a white T-Shirt when you can purchase these shirts for $1.50 or less”? [...]

Image Armor Partner RTP Apparel Announces Pricing For Ready To Print Shirts

January 4, 2017: An Image Armor Partner, RTP Apparel is excited to announce the industry’s first specifically DTG engineered Ready To Print shirt is soon to be unveiled. RTP Apparel Style #1600 will be released in Black and White colors, sizing Small through 3XLarge. These shirts are Ready To Print™ and are completely pre-pretreated throughout the entire garment. [...]

Using Image Armor ULTRA with Brother OEM White Ink

December 13, 2016: Over the past several months we have been testing the Image Armor ULTRA with Brother’s white OEM ink. We wanted to present our findings with the industry. In the past, we really did not effectively endorse using our Image Armor ULTRA dark shirt pretreatment with Brother OEM inks. However, in our most recent testing we found [...]

New B-Series DTG Inks and 100% Black Polyester Printing

November 14, 2016: We thought this would be a fun little print to show that you can print 100% black polyester fabrics with the Image Armor Series of DTG inks. This design was printed on a Brother GT3 with the soon to be released B-Series inks. We pretreated the polyester fabric with Image Armor Ultra and heat set [...]

New B-SERIES Inks Coming and 50/50 Shirt Printing

November 10, 2016: Things are progressing very well with the B-SERIES of Image Armor inks. The B-Series are the latest DTG inks for the Brother GT series of direct to garment printers. We are really working hard to make sure the B-Series competes and excels in color intensity, wash and price points for everyone who owns a Brother series [...]

New RTP Apparel Printed with Brother GT-381 Garment Printer

October 17, 2016: New RTP Apparel Ready To Print Shirts Work Great on Brother GT-381 RTP Apparel is the DTG industry’s most innovative new product in years. No pretreating is required to be successful in the direct to garment printing industry. No mess or guessing how much pretreatment to apply to the T-Shirt. No more unwanted pretreatment boxes due [...]

New RTP Apparel Prints Incredibly Well on Epson F2000

October 14, 2016: New RTP Apparel Prints Incredibly Well on Epson F2000 At the 2016 Ft. Worth Imprinted Sportswear Show we had an opportunity to show off the Image Armor technology being used in the new RTP Apparel shirts. These shirts are engineered for DTG printing.. The RTP Apparel stands for Ready To Print. There is absolutely no [...]

Flashback Thursday – White Ink Printing on Black Polyester

September 29, 2016: WHITE INK PRINTING ON BLACK 100% POLYESTER – FLASHBACK THURSDAY Many people have been asking about white ink printing on black polyester. This is not really new as Image Armor posted this article over a year ago on our webpage. We’ve been printing white ink on black polyester for well over a year… figured a [...]

Brother GT3 Inks Getting Closer

September 22, 2016: New B-SERIES Inks On The Way The Brother GT3 Ink sets are just around the corner. We are doing final field trials and wanted to show some stuff we were printing to give rise to your imagination. The new B-Series Image Armor inks are performing incredibly well in the Brother GT3 printers and with the [...]

Image Armor Announces Partnership with RTP Apparel

September 20, 2016: RTP Apparel Ready To Print Shirts Image Armor is proud to announce our partnership with RTP Apparel which licenses the Image Armor technology for their groundbreaking new T-Shirts. RTP Apparel is the industry’s first DTG engineered t-shirt that requires no pretreatment prior to printing with your direct to garment printer. These shirts are designed to [...]

SGIA 2016 VEGAS – Come See What’s New in DTG

September 7, 2016: COME TO VEGAS SEPTEMEBER 14-16th! If you really want to see what is new in the direct to garment industry, make sure to visit the SGIA in Las Vegas the week of September 14-16th! Image Armor will be in booth #3090 and showcasing several new “things” for the DTG industry that we are extremely excited [...]

Epson F2000 OEM Inks and 100% Polyester Printing with Image Armor LIGHT Shirt Formula

August 19, 2016: UPDATE: We have been continuing the wash testing of the Epson F2000 OEM inks printed on a 100% polyester white shirt. The left side of the shirt had been pretreated with Image Armor LIGHT Shirt Formula. The shirt was then printed with original Epson OEM inks. As you can see in the image to the left, we pretreated the [...]

Printing 100% Polyester Shirts with the Epson F2000 DTG Printer

August 11, 2016: Printing 100% Polyester Shirts with the Epson F2000 DTG Printer Printing on 100% polyester fabrics has always been problematic. The colors are not vibrant, the image clarity is fuzzy due to bleeding, and the wash durability is not the best. There have not been many options for the Epson F2000 DTG users up to this point. [...]