The Sign Canada September online magazine is out today and contains a surprise. A Toronto textile manual screen printing shop, Sugarbomb, is featured in an article titled, Stirring Up Passion and Precision. The question is, why? Why would a sign industry magazine feature a textile screen printing shop?
And it’s not an especially unique textile shop. In fact, it sounds like a fairly basic manual shop of which there are probably hundreds across the country. The insights into how they quality control, their techniques, who they like having as customers, and so forth, are not particularly insightful. There’s nothing in the article that’s going to make a textile screen printer have an aha! moment. So, again, why would a sign industry magazine feature a basic manual textile screen printing shop?
Perhaps it’s in response to recent suggestions that sign shops are tending to diversify into textiles. But if that were the case, surely the article would be about direct-to-garment printing as more closely aligned with technology that sign shops are already familiar with.
On this topic of textile printing, if you’re a sign shop owner thinking of diversifying into textile printing, call Stanley’s because they have a Roland direct-to-garment textile printer they can tell you about. But if you’re determined to textile screen print, they can help you with that too.