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Lon

Lon Winters is a solid dude. He is one of the best guys in what you all know is sometimes a skeezy business that we find ourselves in. He’s a fun guy to talk about screenprinting with and he’s been known to throw down a cocktail or two or… Here is a photo of him…

Good Discharge Trick

For blocking out screens for printing water-based discharge inks, regular old generic clear nail polish works very well. It holds up and that aggressive discharge ink doesn’t get through, and also importantly it reclaims fine. It isn’t expensive either. Another trick we did not follow in this situation, don’t print out so much crap on…

I Love the Smell of Acrylics in the Morning – Web Wednesday

I started in my basement printing with supplies I bought from Speedball. That was over thirty years ago and I just checked, they are still at it. You can still participate in the magic known as screenprinting for not much money if you have some enthusiasm. Their website gives you everything you need to get…

Soft Prints – More and More Tools

More and more tools become available to give customers what they want. You want a soft print on a fabric that had dye migration problems and it also has to stretch and by the way, keep it bright white? No problem. Well… usually there are some compromises, but you have to deliver at least close…

Misprint Monday – Sometimes It’s the Shirt

Discharge printing is getting more and more popular as a way to produce soft prints on soft shirts. It doesn’t always work. The process is that the discharge agent in the ink combines with water and heat to neutralize the dye in the shirt. The color of the ink then goes into the fabric and there is…

Simple es mejor que nada.

A veces tras imprimir, el tinte de la camiseta llega a la tinta en el tiempo que tarda en llegar a la cinta del horno. Esa preciosa tinta blanca en una camiseta roja se vuelve rosa. Dices, ¡vaya! y piensas algo para prevenirlo. Una combinación de técnicas (bajo flasheado y curado) y de materiales (tintas…

Dye Migration – Testing “Equipment”

Simple is better than nothing. Sometimes you print and the dye from the shirt gets into the ink by the time it goes down the conveyor oven, that nice white ink on a red shirt turns pink. You say, “damn” and you think of something to prevent it, some combination of technique (lower flash and…

Manual Printing

I’ve printed thousands of shirts by hand in my life and seen thousands more. We have not done any in my shop for about ten years though. Today we got back into it, you can see our new Workhorse manual press and flash. We got it to do experimentation mostly, to do production.  You can…

Dov Charney leaves American Apparel

Dov Charney was terminated by American Apparel last week. I see quite a few articles calling him a “sleezebag” and lots of folks really seem to enjoy seeing him fall. There are quite a few inaccuracies in the reporting, and most people don’t know the man. One article says he was partly fired for using…

Desmontar un mito- el desteñido o “flash away”

He leído bastantes cosas acerca de no flashear demasiado, que si curas la tinta en lugar de usar el gel se irá con el lavado. Sinceramente, no puedo decir que lo haya visto nunca, ¿lo has visto tú? Creo que la prueba es que cuando lavamos nuestras impresiones de test, que se imprimen sobre diseños…

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