Issue 001 · August 2026
State of the industry.
8 sections, 72 verdicts, 231 glossary terms. Every claim carries its source.
Sections
00 Digital is coming for screen printing's volume, and the industry is consolidating faster than it prints A year after the Printful+Printify merger was announced, the POD market has a single giant (FYUL), mass-production DTG is taking real orders away from carousel presses (60% of Kornit systems in Q2 2026 were bought by traditional screen printers), and DTF has become standard in 2 out of 3 decoration shops. And Brussels has dated one of the two: textile EPR has to be law in every member state by 17 June 2027 under Directive (EU) 2025/1892, while the textile digital product passport still waits on a delegated act nobody has adopted. Read →01 Print technologies Mass-production DTG, DTF, hybrids, printheads and inks: what really changed on the shop floor in 2025–2026 and where the line between screen and digital runs today. Read →02 Market and competition What print-on-demand is really worth, who merged with whom, and what customer reviews say about the biggest players. All figures sourced. Read →03 Smart Factory and automation Software orchestrating production, robots in fulfillment, and an honest separation of what is deployed from what exists only on vendor slides. Read →04 Regulation and environment A regulatory tracker with real dates, because half of what the industry repeats about DPP and EPR is simply wrong. Updated: August 2026. Read →05 Industry voices What practitioners are really talking about, on forums, in podcasts and at trade shows. Community monitoring: Reddit, T-Shirt Forums, Discord, YouTube, the trade press. Read →06 Events Trade show and event calendar: September 2026 → 2028. Bold entries are must-attends for textile printing and POD. Read →07 Knowledge base A glossary of terms, a catalog of sources for ongoing monitoring, and a fact-check of claims circulating in the industry, including the AI-generated ones. Read →