About Us
Our Mission
We are here to make your direct to garment and embroidery experience a positive one and of course profitable!
Since the early days, we have been dedicated to providing quality equipment coupled with excellent customer service. We’ve carried this time tested credo into what has blossomed into our present company, GarmentPrinter.com working with us, you’ll find we’ve experienced almost every facet surrounding the business of direct to garment printing & embroidery. Knowledge, guidance, integrity – we will happily share the do’s and don’ts, as our loyal customers can attest.
Our Solutions
Discover the vast array of garment printing and embroidery equipment related services we offer:
• Sell Brother GT Series Direct Printers
• Sell Epson SureColor F-Series Printers
• Offer training on new equipment
• Sell new embroidery machines / editing & digitizing software
• Consulting / training / production floor layout & production management
• Repossessions / remarketing with over 25+ years of industry experience.
Fernando Padilla
Founder & President
After more than 22 years in the garment manufacturing & embroidery equipment industry, Fernando Padilla and Stitch City Industries have been recognized as a global innovator and leader in his field. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from ITT Technical Institute of Technology in 1988 & continued on to Cal State Fullerton. Fernando held key positions with Barudan America in Greensboro NC, Tajima West in Los Angeles CA & Hirsch International in Hauppauge NY – all embroidery equipment manufacturers and distributors.
1999 when the North American FreeTrade Act changed the manufacturing landscape in the USA, Fernando formed Stitch City Industries, an international export company of preowned embroidery machines. Shortly thereafter he cemented a distribution relationship with Brother International, a global presence of sewing and embroidery equipment.
In 2005 Brother International unveiled direct to garment printers, a new exciting t-shirt printing platform. Padilla recognized the new emerging “Print On Demand” manufacturing environment & used his years of technology expertise to his advantage with this creative technology.
“Printing onto t-shirts is a given with these new printers” commented Padilla. “We needed to differentiate ourselves by thinking beyond this simple substrate and began the sketching, tweaking and long hours of development”.
As a result Padilla is now recognized as an innovator of garment printing technology by expanding the capabilities. His patented inventions include footwear, headwear, mammoth and numerous other applications for the Brother Garment GT782 and GT541 printers – all industry firsts!
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Meet The Team
Destiny Isenberg
Marketing Manager
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To reach Desi, please call 844.647.9504
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Liliana Zamora
Marketing Manager
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Arnold Gil
Sales & Customer Support
An avid Dodger fan, Arnold graduated in 1989 from Whittier College with a BA in business administration. He worked in the banking industry as operations manager for Lincoln Savings, Washington Mutual & Chase. Customer service oriented, Arnold also worked as help desk manger for the View Sonic Corporation, Inc. & has been an independent computer consultant for 3 years. He is a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) who can demonstrate technical & customer service skills in troubleshooting hardware & software operation issues in Microsoft Windows environments. Arnold is also a Brother Cerified Technician.
To reach Arnold, please call 844.647.9504
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Patti Thomson
Sales & Customer Support
Patti Thomson brings over 28 years experience in the decorated apparel industry, specializing in embroidery software and machines, online stores and direct-to-garment printing. With her main focus in sales and customer support, she is very hands on and enjoys developing new applications and techniques. Together with the Stitch City/garmentprinter.com team, Patti helps new start-up businesses as well as high volume decorators to achieve their successes.
To reach Patti, please call 323-379-4384
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Walter Price
Sales Manager
Walter Price has over 25 years of extensive experience in the garment printing and embroidery industries and has been Sales Manager at Stitch City since 2008. At Stitch City, Walter heads a close and talented team of sales professionals who market and sell these technologies and business packages. Walter and Stitch City owner, Fernando Padilla, are innovators in the garment printing business, creating profitable and unique solutions for customer’s business.
Bob Baker
Portand Showroom | Sales & Customer Support
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Bob can be reached at 858.761.8754
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4141 E. Raymond Ave. Suite G2
Phoenix, AZ 85040
11823 E Slauson Ave Unit 31
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670