Next Level Maker 2026 was a shop-floor week in Grapevine
Short answer: Next Level Maker 2026 filled the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, August 27–29, and the Print Laser Pro / nVision booth was in the middle of it — hats, patches, official Prizmo art, and shops comparing notes on how to level up production.
Grapevine showed up
Three days at the Gaylord Texan is a lot of carpet, lanyards, and real talk. Next Level Maker 2026 put general sessions, breakouts, and a packed vendor room under one roof in Grapevine. The official home for the show is nextlevelmakerevents.com.
Print Laser Pro was there as a working booth, not a brochure wall. People walked up with phones full of artwork, asked about hats and patches, and stayed to poke at the workflow on the monitors.
The Print Laser Pro / nVision booth
The booth ran Print Laser Pro software next to nVision conversation energy. Official Prizmo art sat on the wall — goggles, lime, the One Platform / Every Step / Total Control line — plus the lime polos and the hat-and-patch table that actually looked like a shop, not a trade-show prop.
Sean Gilliland and Brittany, cofounder and partner, worked the floor. Brittany is credited here as Brittany. That is her name on this site.
Hats, patches, and shops leveling up
This crowd already knows a Richardson front panel and a contour cut. The useful conversations were about getting from a phone photo to an approved mockup to a file a press or laser can run — without rebuilding the job in three apps.
That is the Print Laser Pro pitch in maker-shop language: keep the artwork, the proof, and the production handoff in one place so the next order is faster than the last one.
What we took home
The week was good because the room was full of shops that already ship. People compared adhesives, UV stacks, hat presses, and how they talk to customers at a booth. Nobody needed a keynote to explain why a bad proof ruins Friday.
If you missed us in Grapevine, the photos below are the real booth. The Creator Conversations pages are where those hallway talks become a URL you can send a shop that was not in the building.
Booth photos
Frequently asked questions
- When and where was Next Level Maker 2026?
- Next Level Maker 2026 ran August 27–29, 2026 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas. Details live at nextlevelmakerevents.com.
- Who from Print Laser Pro was at Next Level Maker 2026?
- Sean Gilliland and Brittany, cofounder and partner, represented Print Laser Pro at the booth with official Prizmo branding. nVision partnered on the show conversations.
- What did Print Laser Pro show at the booth?
- The booth showed Print Laser Pro for hats, patches, and mixed custom-product workflows, plus official Prizmo wall art and the connected path from artwork to mockup to production handoff.
- Where are the Next Level Maker 2026 photos?
- The official booth photos of Sean, Brittany, Prizmo, and the Print Laser Pro wall are on this recap and on the About page. Photos of people who are no longer with the company were removed.