My visit to the Indy show was shortened due to some late orders but I did visit with a few vendors.
I continue to be impressed with the MagicTouch papers for color laser printer and their transfer process. While I've been using them for more than 10 years they seem to be continually improving and upgrading.
Their ORD paper provides a perfect opportunity to get into acrylic awards and other acrylic items than can be enhanced with full color images.
I was struck by the beauty and quality of the Acryliprint marble look that I saw in the Johnson Plastics booth. It was stunning. If that can be duplicated with the MagicTouch ORD paper it would really be amazing.
MagicTouch has improved their WOW process taking out two steps. That is the process that lets you make transfers of very high quality for dark shirts. It's still a bit pricy at $5per sheet but it is a diy solution if you make t-shirts.
This is a biggy........the MagicTouch people told me that Okidata will soon have a printer on the market that will offer white and clear as color options. And at about $600. IF the white is truly opaque it will be a huge seller.
I saw the Trotec demo of their I-cut device and was very impressed. This could be in the engraving forum but because it's a system that provides contour cutting using preprinted registration marks I include it here. It can be added to certain Trotec machines and with all the new ones. At around $4,000 it could be very worthwhile to many owners.
Rowmark was showing a wide array of new translucent acrylic colors. Some are just beautiful and imagining all the things you can do with them can occupy you for a while.
My primary purpose for going to Indy was to look at vinyl cutters with the contour feature and to look at people supplying t-shirt transfers. I did get that done but didn't really have more time to shop the show.
On the whole, I was more pleased with this Indy show than those I've attended in the past due to what seemed to be a larger number of vendors and more importantly, the vendors I wanted to see.