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…
For all of the goofy print placements that we do it is a rare occasion that the finished design is truly something awesome. I mean to say that a stupid piece of “art” or a bad corporate logo placed in a funky position on the garment does not make for a great finished piece. This…
Somehow it always bothered me that our former sales rep was collecting commissions on our business and did absolutely nothing to earn it. Our current rep, Brock Jensen of SPR, showed me the way it should work… You see, last year we had to switch to “low VOC” chemistry for screen reclamation to comply with our…
It’s always cool to see our screen print brethren doing what they do far abroad. Sweatshop Union, an IK subscriber, is rockin’ Osaka, Japan. Have a look at their site: http://sweatshopunion.jp/en/ Nice work guys!
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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 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…
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…
I’ve read quite a things about not over flashing, that if you cure the ink instead of making it just gel that it will wash off. Honestly, I can’t say that I have ever seen it, have you? I think the proof is that our test prints overprint previous designs all the time and when…
Silicone ink is like insurance, you hate it but sometimes you just have to have it. As with many things in life, you have to take the good with the bad with silicone ink. It is expensive to buy the ink, roughly three times the cost of plastisol inks. However, ink isn’t the main part…
