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Image Armor Customer Testimonial – Old California Printing

July 18, 2016: 2016 Long Beach NBM Show: John Hernandez from Old California Printing stopped by our booth at the 2016 NBM Long Beach show and gave us a little history on his DTG experience and how the Image Armor inks and pretreatments helped his Direct to Garment business. Here’s a short testimonial video John shot for us [...]

See the DTG Difference on Polyester at the Long Beach NBM 2016!

July 11, 2016: Come to Long Beach and See the Difference! Make sure to stop by our booth at the long Beach NBM show this week, July 14th-16th and see how Image Armor’s LIGHT Shirt Formula pretreatment can change the way you print with your Brother GT3 DTG printer. We will have our newest print with 11 washes [...]

How Far in Advance Can We Pretreat Shirts and Store Them For Direct To Garment Printing?

July 8, 2016: NOTE: This is a re-post of an article we posted in January of 2016. We get a lot of inquires about this, so we thought it prudent to repost this article for everyone’s knowledge base. We often get asked how long can I pretreat a shirt and then leave it sit on the shelf before the [...]

Improve the DTG Prints From Your Brother GT3 Garment Printer

June 17, 2016: IMPROVE THE LOOK OF YOUR BROTHER DTG PRINTS The Brother GT3 Garment Printer does a great job printing shirts. We wanted to show you how you can dramatically improve the quality output of your DTG printer simply by pretreating. The application and use of Image Armor LIGHT Shirt Pretreatment Formula will greatly enhance the prints off your Brother [...]

Come See Image Armor at the Long Beach NBM Show July 14th-16th

June 10, 2016: JULY 14th-16th, 2016 Mid-summer is coming quickly and so is the Long Beach NBM Printwear show. If you have not been to a show lately, make sure to come and see what’s new – especially in the Image Armor booth. We will be showcasing how Image Armor can definitely change the way you pretreat and [...]

Come See Image Armor at the Printwear NBM Show This Week In Indianapolis

May 31, 2016: COME TO INDY THIS WEEK AND SEE WHAT IS NEW IN THE DTG INDUSTRY: The Indy NBM Show is this week so make sure to stop by and see Image Armor in our Booth #1227. Come and see examples of how the Image Armor products can improve your DTG printing and take it to the [...]

Visit Image Armor in Nashville May 19th-21st, 2016

May 6, 2016: The Nashville Imprinted Sportswear Show is coming up quickly and we wanted to invite you to the show! Visit the Nashville Convention Center May 19th – 21st and come and see why Image Armor is changing the industry. Find out how Image Armor can help your DTG business be more profitable this year. You can see the [...]

Are Your Inks and Pretreatments Safe for Kids?

April 11, 2016: Image Armor is committed to bringing you the best and safest products. This is why we ask – Do you know what’s in your inks and pretreatments? If you are printing DTG products for children 12 years old or younger, you may or may not be aware of the Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008. [...]

DTG Tip – Making Your DTG Print Look Like It Is Screen Printed With Halftones

April 11, 2016: DTG Tip – Making Your DTG Print Look Like It Is Screen Printed With Halftones Many high end screen prints are done using halftones. Halftones are basically different sized dots of different colors that are placed in close proximity to each other to give the effect of a multitude of colors thus reproducing your graphic [...]

DTG Tip – Blur the Lines Between Screen Printing and DTG

April 7, 2016: DTG Tip – Blur the Lines Between Screen Printing and DTG Due to the advances in pretreatment and ink technologies over the past year we have been able to blur the line between screen printing and DTG to the point where the untrained eye might not be able to tell the difference between the two [...]

Image Armor Customer Testimonial – Brother GT3 and IA Light Shirt Formula

March 28, 2016: Rich Gamba from Shelter Cove Embroidery talks about his experience with using his Brother GT-381 DTG printer and Image Armor LIGHT Shirt Formula to improve the garments he prints for his customers.

MESA Supplies Now Carrying Image Armor Inks and Pretreatments

February 12, 2016: MESA Supplies NOW Carrying Image Armor E-SERIES Inks Image Armor is proud to announce that MESA Supplies of Fort Worth, TX is now carrying the Image Armor E-SERIES inks and pretreatments. MESA is a direct distributor of apparel decorating supplies and accessories, specializing in DTG and is located in the Southwest United States. This allows for more customers to [...]

What Pretreating Can Do For You Even on White

February 3, 2016: We often hear at every trade show people asking why they would want to pretreat a garment that only has CMYK printed on the garment. Most of the time the comment is that they’ve been told they do not need to pretreat a white shirt. While this statement is true, it is often misunderstood how [...]

How Does DTG Printed Polyester Wash?

February 2, 2016: We often get the question about our DTG pretreatments and 100% polyester printing in regards to how well the printed shirts hold up in the wash. Typically non-pretreated polyester fabrics will results in very poor quality prints that are fuzzy and do not wash well. However, when properly pretreated with the correct pretreatment you can [...]

How Long Can I Store a Pretreated Shirt Before It Goes Bad

January 29, 2016: We often get asked how long can I pretreat a shirt and then leave it sit on the shelf before the “magical” properties of the pretreat are no longer good. Well, when we originally started Image Armor back in 2013 we had pretreated some black shirts and set them on the shelf. Our intentions were to [...]