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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 [...]

Come to Atlantic City to What’s New with Image Armor

January 27, 2016: The Long Beach ISS is done and gone and we are now looking forward to the March 17th-19th Atlantic City Imprinted Sportswear Show. Make sure to stop by our booth #613 to see how the new Image Armor E-SERIES inks can change your DTG printing business. Also witness the results that our Image Armor LIGHT and [...]

Image Armor Exhibiting at Long Beach ISS January 22nd-24th

January 20, 2016: Visit Image Armor in Long Beach: The start of 2016 kicks off in Long Beach with the Imprinted Sportswear Show. Image Armor will be exhibiting in booth #128 inside the Long Beach Convention Center. Stop by and see what everyone is talking about with pretreatments that will change the way you prepare your DTG shirts and new [...]

Image Armor Update Bulletin

January 15, 2016: Date: January 26th, 2016 re: White Ink Update In November of 2015 we became aware that some of our customers were experiencing performance issues with our white ink. We immediately made inquiries to find out what was happening in the marketplace. The nature of the reports made it difficult to attribute the problem to a [...]

Merry Christmas From Image Armor

December 25, 2015: Everyone at Image Armor wishes you and your family the best this Christmas season. Enjoy the time with your friends and family and remember what the season is really all about. We hope you use this time to relax, recharge, and gear up for a great 2016. Thank you for your faith and support of the [...]

On the 11th Business Day of Christmas Santa Went to Chicago

December 23, 2015: It’s December 23rd and the 11th Business Day of Christmas in our Christmas Give-Away! Today’s Selectee was A.B. Dada of ChicagoDTG.com located in the Windy City of Illinois. A.B. will be receiving a complete Image Armor Ink and Pretreatment change over kit containing a Liter of each our E-Series DTG inks (white and CMYK) as well as Cleaning Solution and a [...]

10 and Counting – The Business Days of Christmas Give Away

December 22, 2015: On the 10th Business Day of Christmas Image Armor Gave to…….. Pamela from Dallas, Texas. Pamela will be receiving a complete Image Armor Ink and Pretreatment change over kit containing a Liter of each our E-Series DTG inks (white and CMYK) as well as Cleaning Solution and a gallon of ULTRA Pretreatment. This will ship out to her after [...]

Keep Your DTG Printer Warm and Happy This Winter

December 22, 2015: If you live in a part of the Unite States where it gets cold and snows, a warm and comfy home is a nice place to be. You need to take that same stance with your DTG printer but keeping it warm is just one part of the successful equation. When the gas furnace kicks on in [...]

On the 9th Business Day of Christmas My Image Armor Gave to Me

December 21, 2015: On the ninth Business Day of Christmas Image Armor Gave to…….. Juan in Chicago. Juan will be receiving a complete Image Armor Ink and Pretreatment change over kit containing a Liter of each our E-Series DTG inks (white and CMYK) as well as Cleaning Solution and a gallon of ULTRA Pretreatment. This will ship out to him [...]