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…
Demasiado a menudo un cliente insiste en que la imagen de sus camisetas debe de estar a conjunto con los carteles publicitarios, señales, posters, carpas, anuncios revistas, etc. Farm Aid y el artista que creó el logo, Kathy Keller hicieron un trabajo estupendo, especialmente creando variaciones para web, pósters, tickets y lo más importante para…
Marshall Atkinson’s blog has some good tips on hiring for screenprinting. I particularly like his idea of hiring for the right attitude and then training for the skills. I have a couple simple additions. – Don’t hire people to unload or catch only, if they can’t load don’t permanently hire them. An eye for quality…
There is no such thing as a perfect ink mixing system (or even a really good mixing system). Formulas are often inaccurate by several shades (yes, I’ve experienced this consistently across several mixing systems and it is not for lack of a high-end scale). So what do you do when you know a color will…
I just love simple machines. This heat transfer machine for putting on labels is fast, accurate and safe. We have done hundreds of thousands of transfer labels with it. – You need two hands to make it come down (a green button on each side) so you can’t get your hands caught under the stamper…
Here’s a great article and video by the WSJ on finding the perfect t-shirt. Enjoy…
I talked to my good friend and great sports mind Mike Manning this morning. He said he loved that the Royals won the wild card play-off game in a walk-off 12th inning comeback. “Even with all those ex-Sox guys on the A’s?” I asked. “We’ve got tons of inventory in Royal and we had nothing…
We recently pulled off a multi-color foil without an in-line foil setup. How you ask? A manual press, a super hot flash, and a teflon coated screen. I think you get the idea.
It doesn’t happen very often but when it does I always ask myself the same question, “how did we all miss this?”. A typo, right in front of your face goes unnoticed by all involved parties: designer, end-user, distributor, and printer. It is only caught moments before production is set to commence during a “first print…
I have been producing the Pawtucket Film Festival for 15 years and we are in the midst of the 15th this weekend. Of course we have to have a new t-shirt every year. Here are about half of them on display.
