Apparently there is a curse involved in this shirt, but I’m not sure I even understand it after only reading this article once… This Mississippi State t-shirt according to the Clarion-Ledger involves a curse. Decoded swearing is still swearing apparently. Sometimes I’m glad we have our own blog so we don’t have to deal with…
Being a contract printer (ASI supplier) for ASI distributors and other promotional product “professionals” is a love/hate relationship if ever there was one. When the relationship goes well it is a great cooperative arrangement and the distributor (in their white hat of course emblazoned with their clever name and logo) is our financier, our great…
Stop being penny wise and pound foolish. Saving twenty dollars and buying a gallon of inexpensive but inferior emulsion is a terrible idea. Inferior emulsions don’t have the resolution of most of the more expensive emulsions because they don’t have the solids content. Without the resolution you will you lose detail in your printing. …
The Pantone color of the year for 2015 is Marsala. That is one of the many fascinating things to learn on the Pantone site. Very useful is conversion software that gets you as close as possible to the coated and uncoated colors (which we use to match ink colors) from the textile and other pantone…
I can’t show it, but we warped a print last week and have to set up the job again today to print one piece for a good customer that has to have this small order perfect. We put too much adhesive on the platen and warped the print when we yanked it off the press. Those…
My pal Garrett Kaule of KSW just pointed out a bad end of season basketball gaffe. Baseball season started this week and our thoughts (and prayers) go out to players to have a good year. Can the Red Sox go from worst to first again? Are the Phillies as bad as they looked yesterday? Can…
Kornit Digital went public this week and the stock went up 40% right away. That’s maybe faster than one of their Avalanche presses could digitally print 5000 black shirts… Here’s the skinny. The market is closed today for Good Friday, so you’ll have to wait until Monday to jump on that action.
This Jezebel article details worker unrest and changes at American Apparel in the wake of CEO and founder Dov Charney being ousted from the company. Certainly you don’t want to see anyone lose their jobs, that is a reality that too many Americans have already experienced all around them. However, the question can also be,…
I guess if some folks can make more money selling a t-shirt by signing it, why not also by shooting holes in them… William S. Burroughs was a beat generation writer of such classics as Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine. In this video clip he, while well over 80 years old, plugs some of his t-shirts…
Here is my third post, some final refections as the busy trade show season is mostly over. The biggest trends of the past ten years have been related to digital printing and to concerns about the effects of printing and garments on the environment. Developments in the environmental realm seem to have slowed down, but still…
