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Updated 2026-09-14 · 8 sections · 72 verdicts · Pulse Mondays
15 confirmed · 34 partly · 5 unproven · 18 failed — each links its source →
“The Kornit Apollo prints up to 400 pieces per hour, with wet-on-wet pretreat and inline drying.”
Kornit's own page says all three: “up to 400 impressions per hour” in the hero, “Up to 400 shirts per hour” in the technical specifications, and “350-400 prints per hour” in the FAQ. Kornit
Read the verdict →We check before we print.
01 — FACT-CHECK →“AI-powered 8K line-scan cameras behind dryer tunnels are becoming the standard in DTG fulfilment.”
No vendor or fulfiller has documented such a deployment.
Read the verdict →This week, checked:
- 01
Inkcups direct-to-object, adopted. A workwear firm has taken on Inkcups DTO technology to widen what it can decorate, per SignLink. Direct-to-object stopped being a novelty category…
signlink.co.uk → - 02
Gavin Watson has launched a short-run packaging service on a new HP Indigo 35K. Short-run packaging keeps drawing in printers who already own the customer relationship and were sending the work out. The Indigo 35K is the enabling…
printmonthly.co.uk → - 03
Graphics and Marketing earned Color-Logic certification on a Konica Minolta AccurioPress C14010S. Certification on a specific press, for a specific effect library — useful because it tells buyers what the shop can reproduce without a sample run…
thecannatareport.com →
Inside Issue 001
02 — AUGUST 2026Single-pass DTG verified spec by spec: Kornit Apollo, M&R Polaris, Atlas MATRIX. Where screen printing actually ends and digital begins, with the machine table to prove it.
Open section →$13.1B → $57.5BMarketTen players, both forecast curvesTen major players compared on model, scale and Trustpilot score. The FYUL merger, Taylor buying Gooten, and why the in-house vs network war ended in a draw.
Open section →430 robotsSmart FactoryWhat ships vs what is on the slidesTHG's Libiao swarm scaling toward 1M units a day, AutoStore going pay-per-pick, RIP consolidation — and an honest split between what ships and what lives on vendor slides.
Open section →EPR ~2028RegulationThe EU calendar with real datesThe EU calendar with real dates: textile EPR, DPP realistically 2028–29, EmpCo greenwashing ban from Sep 2026, GOTS 8.0, the GRS sunset. Half of what the industry repeats is wrong.
Open section →20 to followVoicesThe people worth your feedThe people worth your feed: independent analysts, shop-floor podcasters, the YouTube educators with six-figure audiences. Plus the community map, from Reddit to Discord.
Open section →17 datesEventsThe calendar to May 2028From PRINTING United Las Vegas to ITMA Hanover and drupa 2028 — the calendar runs to May 2028, with the must-attend shows marked and last editions debriefed.
Open section →How we work
03 — METHOD →A Verify
72 claims went through the check and 18 were published as failures. "AVT Helios does textile QC"? Label-industry tool. "8K cameras are standard in DTG"? No evidence anywhere. The failures stay up.
B Measure
Three research houses, $27B apart on the same forecast — both curves shown, not smoothed over. Every figure carries its link: 247 sourced references in Issue 001.
C Listen
Forums, podcasts, show floors. What operators actually argue about: DTF eating everything, cheap-machine trust after the Procolored malware scandal, the AI double-bind. Twenty voices worth following, mapped and linked.
House rules
04 — PRINCIPLESSend a claim through the nozzle check.
A vendor said it, a forum repeats it, a brochure printed it. Paste it here — if it clears the gate, it gets a verdict with sources. Failed claims get published too.
1 · scout queue→2 · human gate→3 · verdict
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