The lead STAHLS' Fulfill Engine has added Cutter & Buck and Storm Creek to its on-demand apparel platform, Impressions and Screen Printing reported on October 28, 2026. Cutter & Buck brings 198 styles, Clique-branded items among them. Storm Creek adds apparel the company describes as sustainable. Distributors
The lead YES Group, the UK supplier of embroidery, DTF and DTG equipment whose partners included SWF, Ricoma and DTF Station, entered voluntary liquidation on 15 October, a year after its 30th anniversary. Customers heard by mailer. The mailer says YES can no longer provide servicing, technical assistance or customer
The lead The European Commission has raised serious antitrust concerns about the proposed UPM and Sappi joint venture in graphic papers. This is an objection, not a ruling. The joint venture does not exist yet, the review continues, and nobody knows what shape it will end in. Why does this
Stahls rates its Carousel at up to 300 garments an hour on its own page and 300 to 400 on the stand. Issue 002 reads every number that way, in nine sections.
The lead Kama has filed for court-supervised restructuring. Print Business reports the move puts it on the list of German engineering businesses calling on the courts as headwinds mount. For a production manager, the headline matters less than the follow-up calls it should trigger. If a Kama machine
The lead Impressions this week makes the case for automated heat pressing as the fix for transfer bottlenecks in high-volume DTF apparel production. The point is easy to miss when the buying conversation is all about printers. A DTF printer that produces film faster than the press station can
The lead GAM Graphics has put Color-Logic into production, using the software to automate visual previews of metallic digital print embellishments. For a shop floor, that lands at estimating and proofing, not on press. Metallic work is exactly the kind of job a customer cannot picture from a flat
The lead Mimaki has put a new direct-to-film printer, the TxF330-800, at the front of a four-machine launch covering UV and DTF work for apparel and rigid substrates. The claims attached to it are productivity and stability, and the second of those is the one that
The lead Xerox is returning to Xeikon for digital press technology, and the two reports landing this week frame it as an integration rather than a one-off supply deal: Xeikon technology built into Xerox's upcoming presses. For anyone running a shop floor, the practical question is not
The lead Roland DG has put two UV printers into the direct-to-object market: the VersaObject IO-300 and RC-300, both aimed at personalisation work on finished items rather than flat stock. For a shop already running garment and wide-format lines, that is a different kind of
The lead Nazdar named Edward Baiden president and CEO. If you buy ink, that is the item on this week's list that touches your floor first. Nazdar makes both screen and digital inkjet ink, so a change at the top sits across two supply lines that many shops
The lead Ink cracking after the wash is back at the top of the Pulse queue, tagged recurring, out of a thread on r/SCREENPRINTING titled "need help with fading/cracking after wash". Same complaint, different shops, week after week. The sweep groups it with two other finishing
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The lead PaperCut has published an urgent security advisory for its NG and MF print management software. The queue entry carries no CVE, no version numbers and no patch date; the operational instruction is to go to the source and read it. If your floor runs NG or MF, treat
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The lead Five years of shop floor logs, one recurring list of failures. Ink Kitchen's throwback piece pulls together direct-to-film problems that keep coming back — and the maintenance fixes that actually stop them. If you run DTF, this is the item worth printing and taping to
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The lead Five dates are on the board. The first is 27 September 2026, when EmpCo bans unsubstantiated "eco-friendly" claims. EUDR due diligence obligations follow on 30 December 2026, with a second tranche at 30 June 2027. GOTS 8.0 is fully effective 1 March 2027. On
One letter a week on print-on-demand production. The lead, the signals, one verdict, the dates. Every item carries the link it rests on.