Just for this week we are doing a bit of crossover into °FAI. It’s a topic I think is very important. Here’s the rundown. Episode 15 °FAI is the one where we ask the harder question about AI, who’s steering it? With Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical putting AI ethics on the front page, it’s…
Mirror Image had need for a CRM. So I started Building a CRM on Monday + Brevo. This is a new space for me to build in, and I’m using AI to assist. We tested HubSpot first and then arrived on the Monday / Brevo integration because it seemed to suit our needs better. Maybe…
From March 2020, Water-based ink scares a lot of shop owners, and not without reason. Plastisol forgives mistakes; water-based does not. So at Impressions Expo Long Beach 2020, we sat down with Tony Palmer of MHM, a UK printer who started in 1987 when water-based was the only ink in the room, for a no-theory,…
In the city of silk, and appropriately enough also the city of silkscreens, Lyon, France, we ran into a street fair with screen prints for sale. She had a wide range of items, posters, cards, shirts, and all screened. When Machin told us the leader of her screen printing cooperative was an anarchist known for…
There is no possibility that too many tributes get paid to Michel Caza. In our first tribute post on Sunday, Rick closed with the line “I hope many tributes roll out.” They are rolling out. And there is no possibility that too many get paid to this man. We followed Sunday’s post with our friend…
Today’s post is by our friend Beppe Quaglia. It is a beautiful tribute to his friend Michel Caza. You can read his newsletter written in Italian in English by using Google Translate at www.bqelearning.com Ciao, Michel Yesterday, in a hospital room, Michel Caza left us. He was ninety years old and, true to…
Michel Caza has passed. He is one of the true giants in the world of screen printing, arguably the greatest figure in the history of screen printing.. He helped to start FESPA and was the president for many years, including when I had the distinct pleasure to meet him in the late 90’s. The legacy…
Our press operators log every job on a tablet, order number, screens, setup time, run time, delays. That data flows into the weekly report the shop owner reads every Monday morning. The tablet form has been live about three weeks. The operators came back with a list and The Bug That Was Faking Our Numbers.…
Sales in the front, printing both in the back on the same floor and up on a second floor. Quite a beautiful inspiring setting to create art. No wonder she was a delightfully welcoming and happy, right! Cards, prints, framed prints and tote bags all made in the back. Pretty delightful stuff to find on…
From February 2019, Want to know what $8 piece causes 85% of the problems that happen with your $25,000 embroidery machine? At ISS Long Beach 2019, we sat down with Bill Garvin of BG Tech, a Tampa-based embroidery technician who services 80 to 100 shops a month on the East Coast, for a no-nonsense ShopTalk…
