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Customer Profiled in Digital Textile
Magazine |
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The
latest issue of
Digital Textile Magazine
has profiled on page 16 (digital version)
Spoonflower who is
based in Mebane North Carolina. You will enjoy
visiting their web site to see all the fantastic designs
they have printed for their customers who come mainly
from the craft Market. We recently installed two new
MC3’s to add to their two MC2’s (previous generation of
the Ujet MC printers) to bring their production
capability up to four machines, all using the
Yuhan Kimberly
NanoColorant pigment inks.
Spoonflower named their
machines so we can all be on the same page when
questions arise: Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp! |
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[TC]²
Activity ITMA Showtime |
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By Karen Davis, [TC]² |
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Showtime™, High
Point's Semi-Annual Fabric Market, is produced
by and for the members of the International
Textile Market Association (ITMA). From June
7-10, all segments of the home furnishings
industry attended this internationally acclaimed
market offering the most thorough fabric,
leather and trimmings presentations in the
western hemisphere. |
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More than 800 buying companies
viewed thousands of fabrics from exhibitors. In
addition to the exhibits, educational programs
were offered that focused on color, fabric and
trend forecasting for the home furnishing
market. |
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The ITMA is a non-profit Business
Association that produces Showtime for its
members. ITMA members consist of individual
mills, converters, tanneries and trimming
manufacturers that produce decorative coverings
for the home furnishings industry.
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Lujuanna Pagan of [TC]² assisted
in the
Expand Systems
booth with a digital printing demonstration
using the Yuhan-Kimberly MC3 digital printer
and an
ITNH
fixation unit. The booth display contained
products printed at [TC]² through its
InkDrop Printing
services, and samples from the
Spoonflower
community, as well as samples printed by
Yuhan-Kimberly
at its South Korea facility. [TC]² digitally
printed the show banners for the event as well
as booth signs for the booth it shared with
Expand Systems. Fabric was provided by
Cotton
Incorporated for the signage.
“This was the first ITMA Showtime fabric market
that included a live digital printing
demonstration as part of the exhibition, and it
generated a lot of interest,” commented Pagan. |
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The collaboration between Expand
Systems, [TC]², and The Digital Stylist created
a perfect learning environment for the ITMA
attendees who visited the booth. “Many of the
attendees that stopped by had not been exposed
to digital printing with pigment inks on
non-treated fabrics, so our demonstration
enabled many to better understand the “print on
demand” and “print direct digitally” concept and
how it can help their business in these
economically challenging times,” added Ann
Sawchak of Expand Systems. |
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You Design It,
They Print It |
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Sara D. Davis for
The New York Times |
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Published: January 7, 2009
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You don’t have to be a
crafter to appreciate
Spoonflower.com, a Web site for designing
and printing custom fabric. Anyone with a dream
and access to the Internet can upload an image,
decide how it should be arranged (repeated,
centered, tiled, etc.) and have it printed on
combed cotton. Although do-it-yourselfers and
professional textile designers are flocking to
the site — printers at the company’s
headquarters in North Carolina are churning out
40 to 60 yards of fabric a day — Stephen Fraser,
who founded the site in May with his wife, Kim,
and Gart and Anne Davis, said Spoonflower would
be in beta, or test, mode until there were more
fabric options (upholstery-weight canvas should
be available soon, he said).
Until then, the winner of
each “fabric-of-the-week” contest on the site’s
blog, written by Ms. Fraser (top, with Ms. Davis
seated behind), can be purchased, for seven
days, at Spoonflower’s Etsy store (etsy.com).
(Girls, above bottom, by Susan Mentrak, was one
of last month’s winners; other fabrics designed
on the site include Red Spiky Flowers, top, by
Jessica Gonacha, and Spirals, center, by Jinjer
Markley.) Custom fabric is $18 a yard, or $5 for
an eight-by-eight-inch swatch; information:
spoonflower.com.
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A version
of this article appeared in
print on January 8, 2009, on
page D3 of the New York
edition.
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