I always say that we can design in, on, and above the shirt. Your design canvas is not a computer screen. It is the fabric of tote bags, shirts and other garments. We are lucky to be able to design with depth. Thinned based inks go into the fabric, regular inks stay on top, and…
Customers ask all the time, how big should the image be? What is the ideal location? I have looked at hundreds of thousands of pieces of art going on shirts and even more shirts. I still need to see what it is going to look like. Does that mean I want to print the shirt…
My pal Jon just had a fire at his shop Pop Tops this past weekend. The cause is still being investigated, but it appears to have started while nobody was there in the screen room. A few good things: – Nobody was hurt, no firefighters or employees – Sprinklers kept the fire from spreading –…
Alphabroder just announced today what has been rumored for months, that they have merged with Bodek and Rhodes. Nobody cares about a little billion dollar merger I guess if Bud can buy Miller for $106,000,000,000 (that’s right billions.) This merger makes Alphabroder/Bodek the undisputed biggest shirt distributor as Alphabroder, Bodek and SanMar were previously the…
If you get a spot of ink on a shirt you can sometimes get rid of it. Screenprinters have different names for it, you blast it out, you shoot it out, you use spot remover, you use dry cleaning fluid… See the label of many of your shirts, “Do Not Dry Clean.” That’s because dry…
This is an American Apparel idea for a shirt for employees to wear on Black Friday in their retail stores. It was meant to be funny and for people to ask for an extra discount they are offering. Several commentators including The Cut call them out and say the new regime at American Apparel is…
Can you fix a garment dyed shirt that has a pinhole or smudge of ink on it? Short answer: No. An ounce of prevention is worth…in this case an infinite amount of cure. My pals at Albatross said they would be millionaires if they had a spot cleaning product for this application. They have all…
This post is from our buddy Brett Bowden of Printed Threads: It’s that time of year again. UPS and FedEx are going to be completely slammed with delivering all of the packages full of Christmas presents that your family is ordering on Amazon. We shipped out shirts to a music festival in LA last week…
I met Andy MacDougal for the first time at the SGIA this year. He clearly is a talented screenprinter, a good guy and a funny guy. He has a cool website called Squeegeeville with among other things a good basic screenprinting book and simple equipment, in particular a great simple vacuum table set up for printing posters. If…
Nick Alexander the merch guy for Eagles of Death Metal was killed in the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan theater. I know many of you out there are involved in merch for bands. It could have been one of us, one of our friends, and Nick is someone’s friend, someone’s colleague, someone’s son. It…
