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A Trades Persons viewpoint – Welcome to HAD-PRINT

2 July 2024 Stuart Nimmo

Please note: this is a live blog, and will have updates to this post

So you’re here as your a trades person looking to take the phaff out of maximising your brand presence. If you like making your working life easier – we can help you. Whether you want us on an adhoc basis or commit to our subscription service with trades advantage club benefits. See below for our Trades Advantage Club.

You can see our guide to our services at:-

Garments and workwear, we offer embroidery with our six head Brother machine, MagicTouch DTF print – this is highly comparable to traditional silk screen, plus offers the ability to have finer detail and full colour, both made easily accessible through this new technology. For certain products we will advise sublimation print which bonds dye to the fibres in the fabric to print the image.

Quick overview of our favourite workwear ranges:

Great everyday workwear – ultimate clothing collection

Great functional well specified core items for a wide variety of trades and professions. You can see the range here: http://www.ultimateclothingcollection.co.uk/

Jobman

Hardworking true trades wear. Functional exceptional specification. It’s Scandinavian heritage shows and gives an excellent. One of our product reviews of the brand can be seen here:

Jobman Workwear – first impressions

Result

One of our go to brands for sensibly positioned price performance specification. Giving functional workwear at realistic prices. One of our product reviews of the brand can be seen here:

Product review… Result Workguard Technical Shorts

Regatta Professional

Performance for tough workwear with a pedigree of a well known brand. Alongside it’s sister brand of Craghoppers, there’s excellent choice for making the apparel fit your brand through stylish functional kit. New brand into our portfolio for Summer/Autumn 2024.

Regatta Shelford Padded Shirt – product review

Stormtech

Think extremes, this is where Stormtech performs. Exceptional high specification performance. One of our product reviews of the brand can be seen here:

Product Review: Stormtech Men’s Patrol Softshell – XB-3

Come in a see our samples in our showroom by booking a 1-1…

Book a 1-1 with Stuart (links will be added)

Book a 1-1 with Chris (links will be added)

As a one stop solution provider, we can also support you with a bureau service for plan prints, with high capacity KIP plan printer and HP Designjet options we can flex to meet needs. With priority service for Advantage Club members.

Need service reminder stickers, On site job NCR forms, referral cards and other traditional printed stationery – we have a full offering with speedy turn-around available.

Need sign signage? Look no further, we have a suite of Health and Safety signage ready to go. Or just need pavement signage to say you’re working on a site as a marketing tool.

Trades Advantage Club

Our Trades Advantage Club gives you additional benefits and support to help you achieve more, through partnering with us. Provides 2 levels to our advantage club

Advantage club – regular offers through placing regular orders with us, gain access to useful offers to support you.
Monthly subscription options – which offers more privileges and support on top of standard registered Advantage Club offers
Extras and more to help you, simply by being registered with us and a regular customer
Only applicable to signed up trades businesses.
Standing artwork for your branding exists with us.
Accounts cannot be in arrears.

Example offers:

Order £500 plus of workwear – we’ll credit your plan print account with 30 A0 b&w plan prints!
Set up costs waived on embroidery and dtf garment production
Order any 4 more item garment set for your team of 6 plus and we’ll include hi-vis baseball caps Free!
We will remove the first the fee for first off plan prints on A1 colour prints and A0 B&W prints
Safety Check stickers free when you order £500 plus of workwear
Free Job sign off sheets, 4 pads of A4 50 two part sets, black only print, When you order £500 plus of workwear.

Want to join our Trades Advantage Club – drop us an email at [email protected]

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Regatta Shelford Padded Shirt – product review

2 July 2024 Stuart Nimmo

Regatta Professional has a strong footprint in the workwear marketplace. With a strong presence within the outdoor market, we know them well. They’ve come a long way over the last decade and this is probably down to taking feedback and building greater market appreciation.
So this padded shirt has been evaluated by two of us in the HAD-Print cohort. Stuart and Callum.
We like to say we grab workwear and prove that it is of “Ronseal Qualities” eg does what it says it will. So having multiple of these garments “on test” in two different working locations provides for more reality in this review. Callum also works in an outdoor education centre so if it performs there you can be reassured of how well it hits the mark.

Stuart’s viewpoint….
This is a highly functional, comfortable, adaptable product which performs to expectation. The outer at first I was curious as to how hard wearing it would be, genuinely soft to the touch, 2-3 months on, and yes it’s stood up to the wear well.
Surprising point – the pockets are more than ample and provide useful places for the everyday items we all gather.
Cuffs are nicely trimmed and specified and equally do roll up if you’re getting “hands-on”.
Insulation with the padding is a sufficient wind stopper yet not overtly heavy to make the shirt adaptable to the climate you face yourself in.
Yes, I’ve washed this shirt and broadly after the second wash it’s faired well. Slight movement between the outer and padded section, but nothing detracts.
So value for money… the retail price on this shirt is £45 and yes it does reflect this price point, worthy of the value and performance.
Customisable – yes you can have your branding embroidered onto this garment
Would I buy another – yes it’s a good workwear staple and combines with a working hoodie well.

So here’s for the hard work outdoor review by Callum.…

As someone who works in the outdoor industry I was sceptical when Stu sent me the Shelford Padded shirt, would it hold up? Would it be warm enough to wear? Would the otter-checked pattern still be as appealing to the eye after a few weeks of all weathers and I mean all weathers, crawling around on the floor in it, harnessing over it and putting it to the test fire lighting in it; And the short answer is yes it does.
It’s now a key part of my work wear, whether I’m layering up on a cold sharp evening on the edge of the peaks or it’s just a jacket over the top of a short sleeve to keep me safe at work, it does both equally well, and yes it comfy, Stu would say when it comes to my work wear or my personal clothing I can be a brand snob, don’t tell him but he might be right about that. And this definitely ticks the boxes.
Comfy around the shoulders with the light padding in the jacket just gives it that extra bit of quality. A nice size jacket gives space for you to have a few layers on under but also works well if you just need that extra layer like I do many a time when instructing in the outdoors.
The jacket is practical as well, it’s not often I haven’t got pockets full of keys, bits of ropes and carabiners or other tools I’m using around the campsite the jacket has big enough and strong enough pockets to take the weight it needs to.
If you want something personalised in a sensible price range that will stand the test of time then this should definitely be an option.

Manufacturers product link: https://www.regattaprofessional.com/product/TRS216

Jobman Workwear – first impressions

11 June 2024 Stuart Nimmo

We’re not gear snobs but we know what pukka is. (Ok we’re gear snobs)

One of the privileges of seeing new ranges come out, we generally jump on them, once we’ve got our little mitts on them physically.

Our wholesale channels do evolve and change their offering regularly. As they say, change happens.

One new brand which caught our eye was Jobman. As a bit of a hoodie fan, I came across one of the limited edition ones. And yes hard cash was parted with, and yes, it’s been worn a lot during the last fortnight. It’s been wonderful to see what the benchmark is on a product range, and this hasn’t disappointed me. This is the Vintage Lined Hoodie.

The detailing on this hoodie has been well thought through, functional and highly wearable. Even the inside labels state the honesty of the product, small touches like “congratulations you are now the fortunate owner of this Jobman garment, look after it and you will look at feel great at work every day”. Talking of details the seam where the body meets the hood is nicely trimmed with branded finish, the cords on the hood are not your everyday woven ones, but something more durable. The quality of the zip is robust and fit for a more challenging environment. The fact it is a zipped hoodie says workwear, purely for allowing the wearer to decide on how to climate control themselves.

Well, I’ve seriously missed the absolute “dogs whatsits” of a liner inside the garment, While some lined hoodies encompass the body and the hood, this also fully lines the sleeves, which again smacks of the brand’s quality.

So yes this is a more limited edition of a hoodie, but we also looked at the standard hood in the range and that is something above and beyond average, again the level of trim is “more than”. The workwear trousers also surpass expectations.

So if you are a tradesperson who likes your gear. Don’t underestimate Jobman, it’s from an excellent Scandinavian background where quality is the driver, and we are assured it will go the distance in more challenging environments. In due course will have more sample stock for you to get your hands on to evaluate before ordering.

So the question is…

Worth the money – yes with an RRP at £62 it might seem excessive but the specification definitely worth it.

Wear-ability – yes mine has bee with me a lot and it really does tick the boxes.