Guiness World Record For Most T-shirts worn at one time.
On 15th September 2006 Matt McAllister got his name in the Guiness Book of Records by wearing 155 t-shirts at the same time.
See it done here.
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Add comment March 30th, 2007
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T-shirt Heat Transfer Press Suppliers.
We have compiled a list of the main heat transfer press suppliers. So if you are looking to get into the world of T-shirt printing these are the people to speak to. If you think we have missed any please let us know.
1. Xpres
www.Xpres.co.uk
01332 855085
2. A Adkins
www.themagictouch.co.uk
3. Geo Knight
www.merlintransfers.com
01702 345777
4. Hix
07771 987452
5. Hotronix
Www.targettransfers.com
01376 326351
6. Mirical Emblems
01623 490114
7. Victory Easipress
01246 570570
8. J&A International
www.ja-int.co.uk
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Add comment March 27th, 2007
Diary Dates for the Promotional Industry
Date: March 28-29th 2007
Exhibition: The Trade Only Show
Location: Coventry
Date: May 1-3 2007
Exhibition: Sign UK
Location: NEC Birmingham
www.signuk.com
Tel: 0208 651 7140
Date: June 5-9 2007
Exhibition: FESPA
Location: Berlin Germany
www.fespa2007.com
Tel: 01737 240788
Date September 4-6 2007
Exhibition: PSI Paris
Location: Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles
www.psi-paris.com
Tel: 33 1 47 56 50 48
Date October 24-27 2007
Exhibition: SGIA 07
Location: Orlando Florida
www.sgia.org
Tel: USA 1 703 385 1335
Date January 25-27 2008
Exhibition: TV Textilveredlung & Promotion
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
www.tv-textilmesse.de
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Add comment March 23rd, 2007
Scam Emails
Another day, another scam E-mail to add to our collection.
DEAR SIR,
HOW ARE YOU?.MY NAME IS XXXXXXXXXX,[XXXXXXXXXXXX LTD.]THE CEO OF XXXXXXXXX INVESTMENTS LTD GHANA.
I AM ALSO A REGESTERED GOVERNMENT AGENT UNDER THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR.
RIGHT NOW, THE GOVERNMENT IS INVITING REPUTABLE FOREIGN COMPANIES TO BID FOR THE CONTRACT OF SUPPLYING OF FOUR MILLION PIECES OF T-SHIRTS [4000,000] FOR THE REHABILITATION OF GHANA PRISONS THROUGH THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR.
THE PURPOSE OF CONTACTING YOU IS TO FIND OUT IF YOUR COMPANY IS READY TO BID FOR THIS CONTRACT SO THAT I CAN USE MY POSITION IN THE MINISTRY TO SECURE THE CONTRACT FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFIT.
PLEASE GET BACK TO ME SO THAT I CAN ADVISE YOU ON WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED .
LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
THANKS
XXXXXXX XXXXXX,
XXXXXXXX INVESTMENTS LTD.
GOVERNMENT AGENT.
42 GORVENMENT AVENUE,
ACCRA-GHANA.
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Add comment March 22nd, 2007
Printwear and Promotion Competition Winner
During the Printwear an Promotion we ran a scratch card competition to win an Apple Nano Ipod. The lucky winners were were Amy And Sue Dodsworth from Dallas Embroidery in Inverness, Scotland.
Printwear and Promotion is over for another year.
Of the Big three - Hanes, Gildan and Fruit of the Loom only Hanes was present.
Hanes were promoting both the Hanes and Stedman ranges on separate stands.
The Hanes stand was a minimalists dream, big lights and 3 plasma screens. A bit like Foxtons, the London estate agents, there was little evidence of product on display. The Stedman stand had the product behind bars, guarded by people dressed painted to look like wild animals. What was the slogan “Bite the Customer” or was it “Fight the T-shirt” I can’t remember.
Continentals stand reflected a cool fashion image, a sort of French Connection ready for print or embroidery.
At embroidery machine stands Baruden, Tajima, SWF and Midwest ……, things were much as usual - embroidery machines busily beavering away. No hint of minimalism here.
The suppliers of heat presses and vinyl seemed to be getting plenty of traffic.
The newer technology digital printing took my interest. There were several stands including YES and Amaya offering rival machines that could print multicolour prints straight onto a t-shirt.
Notable new stands included Trutex the schoolwear supplier. I didn’t really understand the logic of their strategy of offering free embroidery on their products when the majority of visitors at the show were printers and embroiderers.
Back at our JHK stand things were busy. Could the customers get past the marketing manager from Blue Max /Stag taking photographs of our stand? Had Kustom Kit’s people had been round for a third time for brochures and price lists. No wonder we were running out. How could we politely stop the people who had decided that they wanted to win the Ipod and that they were going to do this by going through all the scratch cards. Things had started to turn nasty when they decided that the only reason that they hadn’t won was because that we weren’t really giving one away.
There were plenty of interesting moments. “Could the person who picked up the promotional bag with the lap top inside, please return it to the organisers office”.
The show was a great opportunity for new printers, embroiderers and find suppliers.
After 3 days of scoffing biscuits and multicoloured M&M’s which reflected the colours of our T-shirts it was time to go home. As for next year why does this show have to be in Birmingham again….. London or Manchester would make a nice change.
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