Sometimes the best way to avoid a mis-print is to not print. Screenprinting is what we mostly do at my company and in this case screenprinting is what the customer wanted. However, sometimes you just have to face that you can’t do something. This artwork has tiny type and it was not going to reproduce…
Best explanation I have seen yet about why Tom and I wear “Know-It-All” Ink Kitchen gear. Inquiring minds always know more than they figure they do. Do you know Jack? Apparently you don’t know Jack. Apparently nobody knows what the hell they are doing. “There’s an old puzzle that philosophers like to ponder: how could…
I always appreciate presentation of a shirt, sometimes it is better than the shirt print itself. Mac’s Seafood in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod had some nice shirts, and the presentation was better. They used bags for mussels and put the shirts in those.
If you misprint something or if it is a close call, you have to get the info to the customer asap. For me, I don’t want them approving something that is clearly wrong, and I don’t want the customer to make judgements without all the information. Usually we don’t worry that much about yellow dye…
Demasiado a menudo un cliente insiste en que la imagen de sus camisetas debe de estar a conjunto con los carteles publicitarios, señales, posters, carpas, anuncios revistas, etc. Farm Aid y el artista que creó el logo, Kathy Keller hicieron un trabajo estupendo, especialmente creando variaciones para web, pósters, tickets y lo más importante para…
Marshall Atkinson’s blog has some good tips on hiring for screenprinting. I particularly like his idea of hiring for the right attitude and then training for the skills. I have a couple simple additions. – Don’t hire people to unload or catch only, if they can’t load don’t permanently hire them. An eye for quality…
I just love simple machines. This heat transfer machine for putting on labels is fast, accurate and safe. We have done hundreds of thousands of transfer labels with it. – You need two hands to make it come down (a green button on each side) so you can’t get your hands caught under the stamper…
I talked to my good friend and great sports mind Mike Manning this morning. He said he loved that the Royals won the wild card play-off game in a walk-off 12th inning comeback. “Even with all those ex-Sox guys on the A’s?” I asked. “We’ve got tons of inventory in Royal and we had nothing…
I have been producing the Pawtucket Film Festival for 15 years and we are in the midst of the 15th this weekend. Of course we have to have a new t-shirt every year. Here are about half of them on display.
Keri Ambrosino, Judy Winters and I combined to make this year’s Pawtucket Film Festival shirt. Of course there was some help from the former Soviet Union in the mix. There are millions of reasons to be horrified by the policies of the former Soviet Union, but they did stop Hitler and they did produce some of…
