Besides a way to make money, printing shirts is a way to do some good. We do shirts for my local Amnesty International chapter and they make money that pays for stamps and all kinds of things for the volunteers to do human rights work. Recently we did some dye migration testing and did some…
Stopped by the MHM booth at SGIA. I was pretty excited to hear they will have their entry level press and their oval at Long Beach ISS. They are delivering these machines already. I had seen them in the factory but now they are full in the field. The oval is one of the coolest…
Note the beer tap in the foreground. KIWO really has the ideal booth in our industry. They have their DTS unit so you can see it working, they have their best most knowledgeable staff, and they know how to be hospitable and friendly, and of course beer helps with that. More technical posts from the…
We got some photos today from a shirt company and they had a printer reporting that the shirts looked like crap after washing. You can see the photos at the end of this post. The ink is not cured from what I see and this is what I told them can be the causes: Undercuring can…
From our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads: As the leader of a growing company, I feel like it is necessary to be around other business owners at my level as well as mentors that can help me get to the next. Whenever I meet with a new “mentor” I always hear the question, “What…
MHM makes the best presses for printing on shirts and canvas. There, I said it. …and it feels good to be so direct. For many years I have written articles for various trade journals. In the interest of “fairness” they always make me write generically about what makes a good press and I can’t say…
Sometimes the best way to avoid a mis-print is to not print. Screenprinting is what we mostly do at my company and in this case screenprinting is what the customer wanted. However, sometimes you just have to face that you can’t do something. This artwork has tiny type and it was not going to reproduce…
Best explanation I have seen yet about why Tom and I wear “Know-It-All” Ink Kitchen gear. Inquiring minds always know more than they figure they do. Do you know Jack? Apparently you don’t know Jack. Apparently nobody knows what the hell they are doing. “There’s an old puzzle that philosophers like to ponder: how could…
I always appreciate presentation of a shirt, sometimes it is better than the shirt print itself. Mac’s Seafood in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod had some nice shirts, and the presentation was better. They used bags for mussels and put the shirts in those.
If you misprint something or if it is a close call, you have to get the info to the customer asap. For me, I don’t want them approving something that is clearly wrong, and I don’t want the customer to make judgements without all the information. Usually we don’t worry that much about yellow dye…
