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[binki]

He normally does a daily rundown. We will be there tomorrow.

[Badalou]

I am walking with a customer and member. We went through pretty fast yesterday. I am meeting with new vendors to carry my TSI. Working on his web this morning and will be at show about 11. Nothing stood out first day. I will go through a little slower today. I am sure I will find you Binki. I think Charles will be somewhere as well. Weather crappy.

[binki]

Good seeing you at the show Lou. We finished up around 1pm and went over to the Irish pub for lunch. Have a living room full of stuff.

Gildan was giving away 4 packs of tshirts. We got a couple dozen.

A pic with Lou and my crew.

[charles95405]

I was at the show Fri/Sat and did not see Lou,,,,but I really felt lousy ...came down with a cold ..walked a bit and sat a lot! First time I was at the show and didn't buy a thing. Did not see any break through new stuff. Show seemed well attended. None of the DTG guys wanted to talk about the DIS court ruling and their machine

[boomerbabe]

Charles
I hope you are feeling better. Could you elaborate on your last statement about DIS (?) ruling and how it relates to DTG printers?
Thank you

[binki]

dis has a patent ( i think they did a patent troll by buying a bankrupt company that had it) for the ink delivery system for dtg printers.

what i saw in dtg was an increase in the number of print heads to do the printing in fewer passes. neo has one coming later that will print a light garment in 2 passes. that is 2 passes of the head, 4 seconds to print.

[Big Dave]

Binki,
took a while to find it, but here's the supporting link re DIS dtg :
http://www.screenweb.com/forum/garment-printing/direct-imaging-systems-prevails-patent-infringement-suit

[charles95405]

Boomer....Direct Imaging System (DIS) had a patent on the way the patent  moves on a DTG printer. Probably around 2005. One of the first big names in DTG was T-jet from US Screen and Scott Fresner. DIS filed an infringement lawsuit..later US Screen filed bankruptcy but the law suit continued.  Finally a recent court ruling upheld the patent and awarded DIS around $3 million..
Since most of the DTG units use a moving platent this brings up a question of who will be sued next. One newcomer to DTG, The T-Printer from Tempe AZ has signed a licensing agreement with DIS.  A couple instances a t-jet owner had his listed for sale on eBay and DIS had eBay remove the listing.  So I was curious of how this would effect the DTG market

This is how I understood it..could be wrong

[boomerbabe]

Thank you, Charles. That is interesting information.

[MonkeyMeMe]

Good seeing you at the show Lou. We finished up around 1pm and went over to the Irish pub for lunch. Have a living room full of stuff.

Gildan was giving away 4 packs of tshirts. We got a couple dozen.

A pic with Lou and my crew.

Great picture,, guys

[rashid04]

Who is all in the picture posted here? Like to Names with faces. Hopefully I will be able to make the next one in the near future. It looks like you all had a lot of fun.

[binki]

from left to right are Mrs. Binki, Lou, Daughter Binki, Future Son-in-Law Binki.