Thursday, March 21, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

S05 Master Decorator Series: Basic Art Production
  • Room: 311

  • Session Number:S05
The Master Decorator Series kicks off with this important seminar on basic art production. No matter whether you are an embroiderer, screen printer, digital decorator or a new company looking at the variables of all of the decorating processes to choose one for your company, this seminar is a starting... ...read more...
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Craig Mertens
Co-Founder and General Manager
Digital Art Solutions

Craig Mertens is the co-founder and General Manager of Digital Art Solutions. Craig has spent his 30 year career developing products and services that assist in managing graphics, optimizing sales and growing profitable businesses...

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Thursday, March 21, 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

S10 Master Decorator Series: DTG Sampling Programs Equal PROFITability
  • Room: 311

  • Session Number:S10
Every apparel decorator understands that creation of samples is the best way to create new sales.  Every decorator also understands that samples take time to create and time is his most important asset.  Spend 75 minutes with 40-year apparel decorator Greg Kitson of Mind’s Eye Graphics to understand why samples... ...read more...
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Greg Kitson
President
Minds Eye Graphics, Inc.

Greg Kitson founded Mind’s Eye Graphics Inc. in 1980 and began the business as a back room operation of a small town family shoe store where he had been using heat-applied textile graphics since 1974 at the age of 17. By 1984 the one-man screen-printing operation had replaced the shoe...

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Thursday, March 21, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

S14 Master Decorator Series: Understanding Embroidery - Machines, Software and Production
  • Room: 313

  • Session Number:S14
This Master Decorator Series seminar, led by industry veteran Bill Garvin, provides a basic explanation of types and brands of embroidery machines, as well as what software can do with them. The basic understanding of the production of the embroidery process will be covered. In this Seminar, you'll learn: What questions to... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Bill Garvin
Owner
BG Tech Services

Bill is a 29 year veteran of the embroidery industry, He has does most all, from being an embroidery machine operator, through the 90s, machine repair technician through the 2000's, to a digitizer, educator, and business owner ever since....

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Friday, March 22, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

S22 Master Decorator Series: How to Start a Successful Business with Just a Heat Press NEW!
  • Room: 314

  • Session Number:S22
A heat press is the most diverse piece of equipment in an apparel decorator’s shop. With just a heat press, your business can profit through decorated t-shirts, hoodies, team uniforms, and hundreds of more opportunities! Join the Stahls’ experts to see hands-on experiences, and live demonstrations and learn new ways... ...read more...
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Friday, March 22, 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

S25 Master Decorator Series: Screen Printing
  • Room: 311

  • Session Number:S25
This Seminar, second in the Master Decorator Series, is a rundown of the basic equipment, procedures and documentation need to run a screen-print shop. In this Seminar, you will learn: What equipment is necessary to start a textile screen printing business Space considerations Procedures to have a quality and productive business ...
Speaker(s)
Charlie Taublieb
President
Taublieb Consulting

Charlie Taublieb-technical textile screen-printing consultant with over 45 years in the industry. Working with new and existing companies for training, designing facilities and resolving technical problems. Charlie is considered an expert in the field and has been consulting, conducting workshops and seminars for over 40 years in the US...

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Friday, March 22, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

S33 Master Decorator Series: Sublimation
  • Room: 318

  • Session Number:S33
Sublimation is digital printing application that utilizes a unique molecular bonding process to permanently apply full-color, high-definition images to a variety of products. Apparel, promotional products, plaques and awards, signage, photo products, personalized gifts…the list is long. In this Master Decorator Series Seminar, learn how to bring sublimation in-house, how... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Jimmy Lamb
Manager Of Education
Sawgrass

Award-winning Author and International Speaker Jimmy Lamb, has over 25 years of decoration experience. He has owned a successful production facility, started a retail franchise and has provided solutions to a variety of Fortune 500 corporations....

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