News and Views from Acorn Printing
Kenilworth Business & Retail Fair
We’ll be popping down to the Kenilworth Business & Retail Fair in a few weeks to support local business in Kenilworth and meet some new businesses that are on our doorstep. The event is being held on the Wednesday 14th March 2012 at the Holiday Inn, Kenilworth and is open from 10.00 – 15.00.
If you’re going to be one of the exhibitors please give us a call as we can help with personalised clothing and promotional items – from pens to pop up stands. Contact us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk for a free quote!
We look forward to meeting you there!
Event and Conference Promotional T Shirts and more
February 12, 2012
by mark
in Personalised
The event and conference season is about to begin and we’re all geared up for making custom t shirts, hoodies, workwearfor staff to wear or personalising goodies such as hats, keyrings and bags to give away at your event or conference.
We’ll be attending a few events over the next few months including the national Printwear and Promotional Live event and more local events including the Kenilworth Business and Retail Fair.
So what can we offer you to give away on your event stand or conference? We can personalise the following promotional items:
All will have your logo and designs on for you to promote your business and give away to event visitors.
So thats the promotional freebies sorted out, what about your staff? We can personalise t shirts, hoodies, shirts, caps, hats with your company logo, names and designs on. We have the latest printing and embroidery technology to personalise any garment at an extremely high quality. We also specialise in Fairtrade and Organic garments.
If you’re running an event or conference we kit our your staff with custom high viz garments and workwear. Make sure your staff who are responsible for putting the event together, maintaining it and bringing it down are equipt with custom workwear and can be seen in high visibility clothing.
Contact us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk for a free promotional goodie quote today!
Beanie Hat Embroidery
February 5, 2012
by mark
in Corporate Clothing
Its freezing outside, snow has covered Coventry where we are based and our factory is very cold! So we thought we would take this opportunity to tell you that we offer beanie hat embroidery at Acorn Printing.
We have a range of hats that can be embroidered with your logo or design on. Keep yourself and your staff warm and smart with some personalised beanies.
Promote your business whilst your about and about in the snow and cold weather over the next few weeks.
Our beanie hats come in a range of colours and styles, from plain, two tone, fleece and thinsulate to keep you extra warm.
In this weather we recommend the thinsulate beanie hat as it has 3M Thinsulation and
Scotchguard rain proof yarns.
Prices for hats start at £2.67 ex VAT and will vary on embroidery and the number of hats you like.
If beanie hats aren’t your thing we also have a great range of hats that can also be personalised for you.
Contact us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk for a free beanie hat quote today.
Printwear and Promotion Live 2012
February 3, 2012
by mark
in Industry News
We will be popping over to the Printwear and Promotion Live 2012 show again this year.
The show is taking place at the NEC, Birmingham, from February 26th to 28th 2012. It features all of the top names in the Printwear & Promotion industry, including BTC, Ralawise and All We do Is. The show is free to enter, all you need to do is to sign up on the website and you’ll get a unique badge and number.
As well as all the exhibitors there are numerous seminars going on throughout each day and there will be plenty of industry experts to chat to. Other highlights include fashion shows and Printwear & Promotion Garment Decoration Awards.
Last year, the highlight was the BTC Activewear stand which had a Harry Potter style theme to it and lots of free promotional tote bags with company logos on. There were some very impressive stands from all the main exhibitors.
We will be popping over with our neighbours, The Workwear Shack, to checkout the latest goings on in the print wear and promotion world. See you there!
Tabard Printing and Embroidery
January 29, 2012
by mark
in Corporate Clothing
Did you know we can print on tabards? We can print logos, slogans, designs and names on to tabards for your company. In fact, we could print anything you would like onto a tabard! As well as tabard printing we can offer embroidery onto tabards.
Tabards are a sleeveless top and usually come with a pocket in the front of it. Tabards are generally using in the catering industry, most commonly in kitchens and serving areas. Other uses include hospitality and cleaning industries to keep staff smart and clean. Tabards used to be popular in the middle ages, often carrying the coat of arms or other identifications, particularly important for the battlefield!
We stock Premier tabards and include a huge range of colours for you to choose from. The tabard has side tabs with adjustable stud fastened closures and are 68cm long.
The weight of the tabard is 210gms.
Prices from £11.10 with one print (excluding VAT).
We can print and embroider on to all kinds of hospitality and bar wear. We have a great range of Kustom Kit clothing we can personalise for you including bar aprons and bar shirts. Check out our Barwear department too.
Contact us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk for a free quote today.
Personalised School Bags
January 22, 2012
by mark
in Kids Clothing
Did you know we can supply personalised school bags for your school, club, nursery or organisation? We have a great range of bags, gymsacs, shoesacs, book bags, backpacks and high visibility bags for children.
We can print your school emblem, logo, slogan, name or design onto your chosen bag. Send us what you would like on the bags and we can do the rest. Our friendly Art department will handle your requirements and help you with your logos ors designs if you have any problems. The print areas on all bags vary so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
The bags come in all kinds of colours for you to choose from, including hi viz. We stock Quadra bags which are of very high quality.
Our prices are the cheapest on the web and start as low as £2.35 per bag including printing in one colour.
Every year we print 1000s of school bags and send them to schools all around the country. If you would like a free quote for some Custom Printed School Bags please get in contact with us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk.
We can also personalise sports bags and holdalls for clubs and organisation, have a look at our collection here, get in touch if you’d like a free quote.
The T Shirt Lifecycle
We found this great t shirt information graphic over the weekend of the lifecycle of a t shirt, it made us smile. We thought it would be good to share with everyone here on the blog. The image is the lifecycle of a t shirt, starting when the t shirt is the best t shirt in your cupboard through to it becoming an undershirt and ending up as a duster.
An infographic or information graphic is a visual illustration of some data or knowledge, they seem to be very popular on the web at the moment.
Click on the image to see the full size The T Shirt Lifecycle.
Source: Image from Fosta
Most of my clothes follow this flowchart! My Italia 1990 World Cup T Shirt and Shell suit fall into the Keeper category at the moment, but could quite easily be moved into archive or resell category as I run out of room in my cupboard.
We have a great range of t shirts in different styles and colours that are ideal for a wide range of uses, from promotion t shirts to special wicking t shirts.
If you would like a free quote for some personalised t shirts that you may archive or donate 
please get in contact with us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk
New Wicking T Shirts for 2012
January 11, 2012
by mark
in Sportswear
We have a great new range of new sports wicking tops for you to personalise for your club, charity, business or society.
Here at Acorn Printing we can print your logo, strap line, designs on these tops which are perfect for sports as they have moisture control.
Wicking is defined as moisture movement by capillary action. In the case of clothing it is referring to the technical fabrics that feature in special wicking clothing and how they can remove sweat away from your skin and on to the surface of the clothing where it can be removed by the elements such as evaporating.
We currently have in stock:
- Wicking T Shirts
- 30 colours to choose from
- Up to size 2XL
- Ladies Wicking T Shirts
- 12 colours to pick from
- Up to size XL
- Wicking Athletic Vests
- 30 colours to choose from
- Up to size 2XL
- Kids Wicking T Shirts
- Available in 12 colours
- Up to size XL – 12-13 years
All of our wicking tops are made by AWD – All We Do Is and features their own Neoteric™ textured fabric inherent wickability.
We’ve found these wicking t shirts and vests to be very popular with running and sports clubs and we’ve printing 100s for clubs up and down the UK.
If you would like a free quote for some personalised wicking t shirts and vests please get in contact with us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk.
Fairtrade Towns in UK
Great to hear that there will be another Fairtrade Town in the UK next year. Plans are afoot to make Cumbernauld a Fairtrade town alongside Motherwell up in North Lanarkshire.
There are many Fairtrade towns around the UK and it began back in 2000 with Garstang in Lancashire when it stated they were ‘the Worlds first Fairtrade Town’. There are over 500 Fairtrade Towns with more to come as more towns are planning to apply.
So what is a Fairtrade town? A Fairtrade Town is any area such as a town, city, village, county, zone, island or borough that is committed to supporting Fairtrade and making sure that products with the FAIRTRADE Mark are used (from Fairtrade Foundation). Anywhere can achieve a Fairtrade status and everyone should be involved.
Here at Acorn Printing we fully support Fairtrade and organic clothing, we have a great range of Fairtrade clothing that you personalise for yourself, event for business. Please get in touch if you’d like to find out more about our Fairtrade policy and clothing.
Contact us on freephone 0800 0190 552 or sales@acorn-printing.co.uk
Charity printed T shirts available
December 17, 2011
If your looking for your Charity printed t shirts for a sponsored run or event then contact Acorn printing. We have a range of t shirts and vests that have moisture control and are ideal for printing your Charity and strap line on. Visist Acorn website and get an online quote or simply call free phone 0800 0190 552 and speak to our sales team.
