SGIA 2012 New Ideas
Executive Data Control visited the SGIA 2012 show in Las Vegas a week ago and we saw some great ideas and new products for signage and decorated apparel especially. Stay tuned and we will show you the...
View ArticleDecorated Apparel at The SGIA 2012 Show
I attended the Specialty Graphics Industries Association SGIA show in Las Vegas and saw some really great ideas. This is a dye sublimation image transfer from a large format ink jet printer to a large...
View ArticleDigital Screen Printing at SGIA
We attended the SGIA 2012 show in Las Vegas and saw this direct to garment digital screen printing technology. This is a company called Anajet and they make the Mpower series printers. This can print...
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Touchscreen Gloves Keep Your Fingers Warm and Connected
Sales of touchscreen devices like smart phones and tablet computers have really taken off this holiday season. And the promotional products industry has a great idea to help you use your new device...
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Decorated Apparel Strategy and Twinkies
The office is filling up with holiday treats sent to EDC by suppliers and customers alike. Someone sent us Twinkies this year, a really timely idea. I have fond memories of Twinkies from my childhood,...
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EDC Solves Complicated Promotional Products Problems
We have been engaged in a lot of strategic planning lately as sales of promotional products are growing. As part of our process we look at our sales results, our beliefs and values, and align those...
View ArticleMore Decorated Apparel Capabilities at EDC
Over the holidays we installed more decorated apparel capabilities. Stay tuned, we will have more news to share later in January. We make ordering and managing apparel programs and promotional products...
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Crowd Sourcing Logo Design Works
We have exciting news coming soon about additional capabilities and growth. Part of this is a rebranding effort to our name and logo. We have changed our logo before, and it is never easy. People tend...
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EDC announces merger and expansion with Memphis company
After months of negotiations, Executive Data Control and Sundial Shirt Company are announcing a merger and expansion that brings an anticipated $4.5 million in revenue and $100,000 additional capital...
View ArticleScreen Printing Ribbon Cutting at EDC
EDC held a ribbon cutting for our new screen printing production shop. We had the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Council person Jan Fisk, and State Treasurer Clint Zweifel over to help celebrate....
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EDC Embroidery Digitizing Solves Problems
One of the most important steps to producing quality embroidery is digitizing the logo. When a customer gives us a logo file, we have to translate that into stitches that will make the design look best...
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EDC Screen Printing Technology
Meet the Printex Prism II; designed with the latest technology, from Industrial Electronic Control Systems through its industry recognized servo indexing; all of this is coupled with a sophisticated...
View ArticleLogo Digitizing for Embroidery
EDC embroidery features our own in-house logo digitizing for embroidery, why? We produce better quality while maintaining a high capacity stitch flow. This is part art and part science. By connecting...
View ArticleScreen Printing Flash Unit Explained
This is the flash unit for our 16 color automatic screen printing machine. If a design uses more than one color it is sometimes necessary to flash the bottom colors. Flashing the ink causes it to gel...
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Embroidery History
Embroider;[Middle English embrouderen, partly from embrouden (from brouden, broiden, braided, embroidered, from Old English brogden, past participle of bregdan, to weave; see braid) and partly from Old...
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EDC’s Heat Seal Transfers Solve Apparel Decorating Issues
EDC specializes in apparel decorating solutions for our customers, like heat seal transfers. Sometimes a customer needs a logo in an innovative location like on a collar or a hemline, places where...
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QR Code For Convenience
You see them around more and more, those little pixelated squares on products, postcards, business cards, websites, tshirts, bags, coffee cups, the possibilities are limitless. I’m talking about the QR...
View ArticlePromotional Pens Are Popular
What’s our most popular promotional advertising item? … Pens! Pens pens pens! At EDC we have crazy amounts of promotional pens in every style and color you can imagine! Great brands like Bic, Stylus,...
View ArticleScreen Printed T-Shirt Mind Control
If you perform a web search for the term “t-shirt giveaway” guess what you find? Only about one hundred BILLION of them! Why so many screen printed t-shirt giveaways? Because people like them and want...
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Embroidery! Come out and Play!
The year was 1979, I was in seventh grade. The movie “The Warriors” had just hit the theatres. Suddenly, all my young impressionable Ozark friends wanted to be members of Lower East Side Manhattan...
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