Brendan Menapace, Author at Print & Promo Marketing

PRINTING United Alliance and drupa Announce Partnership

PRINTING United Alliance, Fairfax, VA, announced last week a new partnership with European printing industry trade show drupa. “PRINTING United Expo’s one-roof approach aligns very strongly with what drupa has brought to the industry over the last seven decades,” says Sabine Geldermann, director of Portfolio Print…

Shopify, one of the bigger names in the print-on-demand space that appeals to direct-to-consumer customers, released some insight into what specific products are the most popular on its POD platform, giving printers and promotional products distributors a look at what items work right now, and why.

The Zendaya-led tennis flick has influenced multiple tee designs (some knockoffs, some just clever).

MeiLin Wan, vice president of textile for Applied DNA Sciences, discusses the continued presence of Xinjiang cotton in textile products, and the problem of “greenwashing” in the apparel and textile spaces.

The New York MTA is winding down its sponsored paper MetroCard program, starting with a series for New York band Vampire Weekend.

The United Kingdom’s government is minting a special edition 50 pence coin (a bit more than 50 cents) to commemorate the anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944.

A new piece of legislation passed in New York may transfer the cost of recycling plastic packaging to the vendor, rather than the consumer through traditional processes. It’s part of an overall effort in the state to limit the plastic packaging ending up in landfills.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics were special. For one, they didn’t actually happen in 2020, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also introduced skateboarding, but that’s a topic for another day. One thing the Tokyo games have in common with the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics is the use of cardboard bed frames in the Olympic Village…

David Rush holds the record for catching T-shirts fired from a cannon and putting them on. We spoke to him about the efficiency of the T-shirt cannon and choosing the right T-shirt for the job.

The advancement of 3-D printing could change the way products are made. And, in an increasingly eco-conscious world, consumers want products that they know were made sustainably, but also of high quality. Researchers have developed a method of 3-D printing using wood scraps to create new wooden products that look and feel like products made…