Despite the recession, M&R continues to develop new products and enhance existing ones. According to Rich Hoffman, the company's CEO: "Economic downturns force companies to cut costs, and product development is often one of the first things to go because innovation seldom carries short-term benefits. We think a myopic view callously dismisses customer needs and undermines long-term viability.

With promoters' requirements for womenswear and teamwear changing significantly in the current market, the bpma academy is actively helping students to understand all of the key shifts in design, manufacturing processes, branding, ethical requirements and legislation.

Don't Panic! Things aren't as bad as they seem; 2009 is the final furlong of three bad years.

This year has certainly started by giving all of us and our businesses a host of difficulties. Retailers have fallen by the wayside in increasingly difficult trading conditions, companies forced to cut costs are reducing their promotional spend and families cut back  on clothing expenditure.

OYO Instruments LP and its European subsidiary OYO Instruments Europe launched the new Goblin entry level Direct To Screen offering at this Spring's Printwear & Promotion exhibition in Birmingham.

M&R has added three new printers and an imaging system to its portfolio. They include the i-Screen Computer-to-Screen (CTS) Imaging System, Abacus Manual Numbering Press; the i-Dot Digital Textile Printer and the Alpha 8 Oval Automatic Textile Press. The i-Screen CTS Imaging System uses i-Pak water-based UV-blocking ink and high-resolution inkjet technology to generate opaque images on emulsion-coated screens.

Bonjour de nouveau mes concombres d'amour battant, et accueil en arrière à une autre séance avec le Docteur.......yes you guessed it mes amis, I'm just back from topping up my Mediterranean tan on the good old Cote d'Azur.

Yo Yo Yo, word out, peace off and mash up your groove....yes you guessed it screeners, I'm just back from a weekend in Philadelphia with my good friend and Hip Hopper, Whoop Doggy Puffhouse.

This month we'll be looking at squeegee technique, thanks to a letter from Larry Le Touche at Screen Queens in Soho, 'Dear Doctor, is there any science behind a printer's squeegee blade pulling action? Should it be a pull, a flood and a pull, a pull and a push, or a flood and a push and a dry stroke?