By Steve Have you seen it? There are so many things Conde has offered lately, you may have overlooked it. Conde, in conjunction with a company called iPersonalyze are offering a way for you to let your customers actually d...
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By Steve It’s true – smartphones are getting smarter. With the introduction of the iPhone 6 and the new Android phones already on the market, you might have noticed sublimatable covers are few and far between for these phones. In fact, Conde is one of the only distributors selling covers...
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By Steve For most pricing blogs, I go out and collect as much information as possible by checking websites and sometimes even contacting dealers but this one is easy. You know you can charge anything you want for your products. Group them, sell them wholesale, even give them away – that is entirely your busin...
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By Steve EMV? It stands for “European MasterCard/Visa”. This is one of those “good/bad” things. We might as well see it as good because come October 15, 2015, we don’t have any choice but use it. It’s bad because it means a change in the way we handle credit cards and that means it is going to cost us more money. Can you imagine? With the huge rate of credit card fraud in our country (the highest per...
Continue readingBy Steve Spence Laser engravers reading Conde sublimation Blogs? I expect so. Lots of sublimators also have laser engravers or rotary engravers. Conde has recently developed a new product that is perhaps the first real crossover product ever for sublimation and engraving. It is a very thin, yet strong, plasti...
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By Steve Spence For this study, no concern was given to HOW the tote was decorated, be it screen printing, sublimation, heat transfer or direct print. The bottom line here is, this is the competition. People don’t care about the HOW, only the price, quality and size. For all extent and purposes, all the bags included were about the same size but differed in design with some being all white and some having colored bottoms, sides or handl...
Continue readingBy Steve Spence Does a mouse live in your heat press? Does it squeak every time you close it with a sublimated product in it? Well, there’s a reason for that and you need to fix it. Here’s how and why: I was doing a big job the other day when someone came in and heard my press go “squeak” every time I closed it. He said, “You’ve got a squeak in ...
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By Steve OK, I admit it, I like cute titles that serve no purpose but… If it got your attention and made you wonder what this clown was talking about, it served its purpose. I’m talking about one of the newest products offered by Conde, and just in time for the Holidays. I’m talking about the metal “Tins” that have sublimatable ins...
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By Steve Spence Those in the sublimation supply business hear it all the time…”What do I charge?”. Oh, if we only had the answer! To find a reasonable response, one has to wade through a quagmire of formulas, various scenarios, and an on-going debate as to what the best method of pricing re...
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