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VICTORY
Victory launches new easiMARK Advance
Victory Design has announced the launch of their really light to touch when heatpressed onto a
latest new product easiMARK Advance, heat garment.
sealable garment film, a competitively priced soft, Advance joins Victory Design’s popular
semi-matt garment film for heat transfer onto easiMARK garment film range which boasts
most garments. a wide choice in heat sealable products
Ideal for personalising workwear, leisurewear and including easiMARK nylon for applying to
sportswear, easiMARK Advance has a high nylon garments. Flock gives a velvet touch
washability of up to 90C. which is popular on the back of football
Advance has good weeding properties; it’s easy shirts. easiMARK Cotton, the most popular
and fast to weed and its tacky clear carrier enables film in the range has a wide colour range
easy registration when pressing garments even and has excellent weeding properties for fine
when pressing small detail. detailed work.
It can be multilayered with itself and other Victory Design also supplies heatpresses,
easiMARK products and is suitable for tumble cutters, ancillaries and signmaking materials.
drying. It can also be ironed on the reverse.
easiMARK Advance is thin and stretchable with a For more information call 01246 570570 or
thickness of 105 microns, which makes it feel visit
www.victorydesign.co.uk
XPRES
A gem of an idea from Xpres
Rhinestone application for textiles just got easier
thanks to a new process unique to Castle
Donington based transfer systems specialists,
Xpres.
The new trademarked Gem Tec process is designed
to produce stunning visual effects by applying
rhinestones onto textiles.
The process will particularly appeal to customers
who already have the best-selling GX-24 Xpres
Cut cutter. With the addition of R-Wear studio
software – developed by Xpres in association with
Roland – and a heat press, you are ready to go.
An added advantage of the software is that it will
calculate the cost per print.
Xpres spokesman, Ryan Hornbuckle, told Printwear
& Promotion: “This is a unique new process that
we have developed ourselves and it currently has a
patent pending. the hot-fix rhinestones are flat on one side and
“Gem Tec is huge. It has already been very well domed on the other, they will automatically
received at shows this year and is proving very position themselves in the stencil holes.
popular. Stencil application film is then carefully applied to
“In the current climate, we are finding that the rhinestones and peeled off.
established businesses are looking to diversify their The film carrying the rhinestones is then heat
product offer. There are other ways of applying applied to your chosen textile.
rhinestones which are very much more expensive, As well as producing rhinestone designs, the GX-
but the cost of Gem Tec and the speed with which 24 will also produce transfers using any of the
you can apply rhinestones makes it unique.” Xpres garment films featured in this year’s
Russell explains how it works. catalogue.
Using R-wear studio softwear, it’s easy to design a You can also combine rhinestones with garment
logo or name. films for great design impact.
Stencil material is then positioned in he GX-24 “New for this year is our fashion range of films
Xpres Cut cutter, which then cuts out the pattern which includes 12 with different effects,” said Mr
in a series of holes sized to accommodate the Hornbuckle.
rhinestones which come in 3 and 4mm sizes. The range includes Glitter, Sparkle,
The stencil is then removed from its Textile Foil, Marble, Wild, Metallic,
backing and placed on Twill, Carbonium, Spangle, Jeans,
a tray. Snake and Paint, with a variety
of colours and patterns in each
range.
Gem Tec is a response to colours. Stencils can be saved and re-used for
current trends. “Rhinestones repeat orders and it as easy to produce one offs as
are very, very popular in retail it is several hundreds.
and for the fashion market, but also for The GX-24 Xpres Cut cutter is priced £1350 and
hen parties, it’s fantastically popular,” Mr the software is £200 (both exc VAT).
Rhinestones Hornbuckle adds. “It’s quick, easy to use and very
are then spread over the cost effective.” For more information call Xpres on 01332 855085,
stencil using a soft sponge pad. Because The rhinestones come in bags of 14,400 in 11 email
sales@xpres.co.uk or visit
www.xpres.co.uk
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