Embroidary - ProPrintWear

[piste off]

Someone at the club was suggesting embroidary as an option to stenciling. I need my name put on my jacket for the Richmond NAC and realize that two vendors will be there - Marx and ProPrintWear.

The person mentioned that she thought ProPrintWear is doing "on the spot" embroidary at the NAC, but I can't find evidence of it, or examples of their work.

I used the search function on stenciling and embroidary and am not finding what I am looking for. I called PPW and am not getting a response, which is not a good sign. There are no examples of their work on their website - another bad sign.

Does anyone have any RECENT experience with them and are they indeed doing embroidary? Are there any other options? This is for a Negrini FIE jacket and I have been told that certain "slicker" uniforms (of which this is one) don't hold the traditional stenciling that well.

Any input would be appreciated.

Rick

[oiuyt]

They definitely routinely travel with an embroidery machine. I don't know whether or not they use it for names (they offer the standard airbrushing in a connected business).

-B

[bigdawg2121]

They do use it for names. It's pretty high quality from what I've seen. Definitely a viable option IMHO. A little on the more expensive side of stenciling but it'll last.

[Mauler]

Ye Olde Armourer can do it for you pronto. They won't be there with their machine (they're refereeing at Richmond). But what they can do for you is embroider whatever you want (name/country?) on a piece of white fabric, then bring it to Richmond and sew it on to your jacket at location.

Normally you can contact them via fencing.net PM at yeoldearmourer But they're leaving on early morning flight tomorrow. So if you can get back to me by sometime this afternoon latest, I'll relay the message ASAP.

These folks definitely know what they're doing. Very high quality work (high count threads), and they know firsthand the demands that fencing puts on embroidery.

[piste off]

They do use it for names. It's pretty high quality from what I've seen. Definitely a viable option IMHO. A little on the more expensive side of stenciling but it'll last.

Any idea how long it takes to do it? I am wondering if I can get it done early in the day that I fence.

Rick

[brtech]

Depends on the size of the queue. Normally it seems to me that the machine is not busy all the time, but sometimes it seems to be back to back working hard. Proprint usually stays around til late if the fencing is still going on, so you may be able to drop it off when you get into Richmond and it would be ready in the next morning pretty early.

Now, they did have a problem in Albuquerque where the computer that normally drives it was lost in shipping, but that should not be a problem in Richmond.

You should be able to find a local shop that can do it for you, but of course they won't understand the USFA rules.

Second on the quality of the work out of yeoldarmorer.

Marx stenciling is the best of the lot, period. They can almost always get things done in an hour or so if you have to have it that fast.

[piste off]

Thanks BRTECH,

Hey, do you live near Poughkeepsie? If so, the person I spoke to at the club thought your "D" had it done by them...

Also, (if so) I owe you the link to that Tauber thing.

Rick

[bigdawg2121]

I think it takes about 15-20 minutes to get a full name embroidered from setting up the name file to handing you your jacket if you get pro-print wear to embroider. Very high quality machine that runs quickly and efficiently.

[edew]

The Fencing Post has a stencilling system that is immediate. There's no drying with a warm iron or anything of the sort. They don't even have to peel some plastic sheet off the sticky part. And the ink stays longer, more permanently (supposedly, we'll find out eventually won't we?). It also doesn't bleed if used shortly after the stencilling.

Their system is that they use a special ink on a special paper. Then they lay the paper on top of what you want stenciled and a quick iron will press the ink onto the fabric. Much quicker than the Marx Enterprise method (and can do some pretty cool graphics too, if you want/are allowed to do that).

[Old Fencer]

Proprintwear offers embroidery of epee jackets. It will not fade with washings.....

www.proprintwear.com

[piste off]

Old post...

I did have Proprintwear do the embroidary and they messed it up slightly (most people don't even notice).

When I got back to the booth, Phil told me there was an issue and showed me the jacket. BTW - it was a brand new Negrini FIE (not cheap!).

Without hesitation he offered to buy me a new one. I went across to Absolute, checked the price and went back to him. He immediately pulled out the cash - and I got the other jacket.

He said I could keep the problem jacket, which again was completely new and had the slight issue with the stitching. The guy stands behind his work, and I am not sure if he still does this (have not seen him at the NACs), but Proprintwear is highly recommended.

R-

[Hauptman]

I don't know if this is really an option for embroidery, but....

Most big shopping malls I've visited have some sort of baseball cap/sports jersey kiosk that custom embroiders almost any saying or logo on request. Possibly, some other local sports memorabilia shops offer the same ability.

Anyone ever check into this?