Bill Mooney and Barbara Herring started Tannis Root and Kung Fu Nation in 1987. They serve the music business and are very good at it. They are good people and it is always a wonderful thing to see nice folks succeeding. In fact, I think they succeed because they are good folks. Their customers really like them…
I’ve posted about ghosting before, but here’s a quick refresher as I have been asked three times in the past week to help a shop with ghosting problems. A ghost image is an image from a shirt that appears faintly on another shirt (or rarely but sometimes on the back of the same shirt, or around the…
My buddy, Ms. Bonnie Kilgore once said, “Show me somebody that don’t make no mistakes, and I’ll show you somebody that ain’t doin’ nothin’.” Mistakes are going to happen despite our best efforts to avoid them. We had a four person brain freeze last week. There in plain sight is how the shirts were supposed…
El esmalte transparente normal de uñas funciona muy bien pata las tintas de descarga a base de agua. El esmalte se mantiene y la tinta no traspasa, además se recupera bien y no es caro. Otro consejo que no seguimos en este caso es no imprimir tantas cosas en las películas así no hay que…
Make sure you know what you are matching when a customer has many other printed items. The file you are working from may have color indications, but if the customer has already printed brochures (well, maybe back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the earth…,) billboards, beer cans, boxes, … whatever, you had better fall…
Lon Winters is a solid dude. He is one of the best guys in what you all know is sometimes a skeezy business that we find ourselves in. He’s a fun guy to talk about screenprinting with and he’s been known to throw down a cocktail or two or… Here is a photo of him…
For blocking out screens for printing water-based discharge inks, regular old generic clear nail polish works very well. It holds up and that aggressive discharge ink doesn’t get through, and also importantly it reclaims fine. It isn’t expensive either. Another trick we did not follow in this situation, don’t print out so much crap on…
I started in my basement printing with supplies I bought from Speedball. That was over thirty years ago and I just checked, they are still at it. You can still participate in the magic known as screenprinting for not much money if you have some enthusiasm. Their website gives you everything you need to get…
More and more tools become available to give customers what they want. You want a soft print on a fabric that had dye migration problems and it also has to stretch and by the way, keep it bright white? No problem. Well… usually there are some compromises, but you have to deliver at least close…
Discharge printing is getting more and more popular as a way to produce soft prints on soft shirts. It doesn’t always work. The process is that the discharge agent in the ink combines with water and heat to neutralize the dye in the shirt. The color of the ink then goes into the fabric and there is…
