Unhacked
We appear to have our hack fixed. Sorry we were gonzo. I wish we could go find the hackers and have a blanket party, but… Anyhow, we’ll be back at posting tomorrow.
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Hack Job
Despite using our Magic 8 balls to figure it out, we have not yet determined how to get rid of a hack of our site that happened at the end of last week. It appears to involve Word Press plug-ins . We are on it and have a backlog of articles to post when we…
Malcolm Butler Gives Big Boost to New England T-Shirt Industry (Hot Market)
Thousands of shirts sit in New England warehouses. Seattle’s Kearse catches a ridiculous pass that should have fallen to the ground. Printers in New England groan, remembering the insane catch (and last of very few catches he ever made) by David Tyree in 2008 which robbed the Patriots of the Super Bowl that year and…
Lagniappe – 9 Recent Random Questions Answered (Briefly)
Nine recent questions I have received whether on forums, calls, or at shows: Q: What is the standard over/under on good shirts? A: You are free to make up whatever you want, but we usually tell people 1.5% per location is the industry standard. 300 shirts printed two sides on customer supplied goods means 9 shirts…
Beer and Printing, Hand and Glove
We attended the Alphabroder Northeast Expo today and yesterday. It was highly attended, really like a trade show with not just garments but embroidery machine companies, transfers and all kinds of things. econscious Bag Edge, Big Accessories had a new item, I think it was called a beverage sling. One can in a koozie on…
What Does It Mean to “Discharge” Print
To “discharge” print a shirt is to use “discharge” ink and get the dye in the shirt to be neutralized. You add a catalyst to a specific type of ink and in the presence of heat and water the dye basically goes away. Only cotton discharges and not all cotton dyes discharge. We test shirts…
Je Suis un T-Shirt. Am I Charitable?
There is an interesting article in the New York Times on the post tragedy selling of things, particularly t-shirts In particular. They focus on the terrorist killings of the newspaper staff in Paris and all the shirts and other items for sale related to that. Folks want to express themselves on an issue, and that statement might…
Pats Win!!! Yea, Well We Work All Night….
The Patriots have been good to us, remarkably six AFC Championships, and we hope four Super Bowls. That can be a lot of shirts printed in the slow New England month of February. The history for us has been up and down. There was the ecstatic night in 2001 when the Patriots pulled out the amazing…
ISS Long Beach – Green Products and Organics
We’ll do a longer post after the show, but check out some environmental products if you are still at the Long Beach ISS show: American Apparel has baby shirts that are organic and other organic items as well. Econscious has organic shirts, hats and my favoite of their products, really nice organic hoodies. Rutland Ink…
Fun. LB ISS continued
Hey, don’t forget to have fun in Long Beach. Our Mexican food in Boston is terrible, I’m so missing my yearly fix in Long Beach. In that photo is my good friend John Lynch from Lynka, a company he owns in Poland. That is Polish vodka in his hand. He is a smart man. He’s…
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