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WB/CAMP: Water-Based Printing Summit

By Tom Davenport

Last weekend, over 125 decorators converged in Northern California for a first-of-it’s-kind event: WB/CAMP

This water-based printing summit, powered by SGIA and hosted by Motion Textile, pulled together great minds from companies such as Green Galaxy, Matsui, Virus, Bella+Canvas, Douthitt, GSF, Ink Kitchen, M&R, MHM, Printavo, Ryonet, SAATI, SPSI, and SanMar, for two days of talks and printing demonstrations.  In the coming weeks we will be publishing a series of videos covering this event, but for now, pictures will tell the story…

Day-1 was packed with presentations from some of the industry’s best and brightest…

Our own Brett Bowden served as emcee

Cassie Stanczyk, of Bella+Canvas, is the first speaker of the day

Dave Makin, of SAATI, gave a technical master-class on screenmaking

Danny Gruninger, of Denver Print House, schooling on WB printing
Beppe Quaglia, of Virus, came all the way from Bergamo, Italy to talk on special-effects WB printing and more
Everybody is always blown away by the Virus samples…

Dave Leskusky, of Napco Media, shares a few words about the upcoming Printing United show
All of the day’s speakers joined in on a panel discussion
No shortage of audience participation during the panel, Lauren, from Printed Threads, is queued up
DJ Young Aundee get’s happy-hour started
After a full day of presentations, the audience was ready for food, drinks, and conversation…
I decided to play bartender for a bit

An event like WB/CAMP provides the opportunity to connect with industry leaders in a relaxed and intimate environment
Industry legend, Frankie Vee talking shop with Danny Gruninger 

Tom Codute of SPSI with Thomas and Petra  MHM

    

Day-2 was an experience at Motion Textile, with live printing demonstrations from Green Galaxy, Matsui, and Virus…

The happiest camper at WB/CAMP!

Virus printing demonstration…

Matsui printing demonstration…

Green Galaxy printing demonstration…

 

More from the shop floor…

                               

How very special it was to have so many great people, in one place, sharing their knowledge and wisdom.  Events like WB/CAMP are most certainly the future of the decorated apparel industry and such events would not be possible without a generous group of sponsors and participating companies…

Bella+Canvas

Douthitt

GSF

Green Galaxy

Ink Kitchen

M&R

MHM

Matsui

Motion Textile

Printavo

Ryonet

SAATI

SPSI

SanMar

Virus

 

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