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How To Choose The Right Textile Material For Your Retail Displays

If you want to deliver real impact in your retail display marketing, textile media is the way to go. But which textile media?

The ideal choice will change depending on whether you’re dealing with a window display, a lightbox, point of sale or hanging banners (the application) and where that application will sit (the environment). So in this post, we’ll explore the main performance factors that can help every printer choose the most suitable option.

Soft Signage: Why Print Market Demand Is Shifting

In the print industry, as with any other sector, responding to changing customer demand is key to staying ahead. So why are customers increasingly choosing soft signage?

In this post, we’ll look at how the signage market has changed over the past decade and consider the reasons for that shift.

Top 5 flag Fabric Printing Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Printing on flags isn’t like printing on other textiles. By their nature, flag fabrics are lightweight and highly mobile (they’re flags, after all). Even experienced printers can find printing on flag materials tricky because the fabric construction, ink behaviour and finishing requirements aren’t quite the same as they’ll encounter anywhere else. So in this post, we’ll look at common flag fabric printing mistakes – and flag (sorry) ways of avoiding them.

From Head Strikes to Strike-Through: Choosing Textiles That Won’t Wreck Your Print Run

Textile printing shouldn’t feel like a gamble. But for many print rooms, it still does. Whether it’s head strikes. Edge curling. Strike-through. One issue leads to another, and suddenly you’re wasting media, losing time, and risking output quality and ruining your reputation while you’re at it.

In this post, we’ll look at the challenges of printing on textiles, and explain how to choose print textiles that help you cut the risk.

LFR visits Soyang in China for an inside look at production

Soyang up close: a factory visit that reveals how quality is built, trust is earned, and print-media reputations are really made. By Marc Burnett MD of LFR

The ‘No-Fray’ Guide: How To Choose Textile Print Media That Cuts Cleanly

Not all fabrics are created equal. Your choice of printing textiles can have major implications for production costs, speed and product longevity. In this post we’ll explore the differences between woven and knitted textiles. We’ll examine why some fabrics fray more than others. And we’ll look at ways of ensuring that when you’re choosing textiles for your print media, you make the right choice.

More Than Media: How Print Media Suppliers Can Add Value For Print Shops

You could choose to use your print media supplier as just a supplier. Or you could use them as a source of ideas, new revenue streams, and technical know-how that could reduce risk, open up opportunities, and boost profits. In this post, we’ll explore how building a real relationship with suppliers can help every print shop owner achieve better outcomes.

How to Store Print Media Properly: Avoid Damage & Waste

For any print business, wasted stock is wasted money. So the better you can store and protect your print materials, the less stock you waste, the better quality you deliver to customers, and the more profit you generate.

In this post, we’ll explore seven production-focused ways to store print media properly, based on real-world print environments rather than theory.