Hot market printing is exciting, stressful, fun, and frustrating all at the same time. In the case of the 2016 NBA Finals a handful of us printers located in Northern California were a little down after the Golden State Warriors were defeated last night. So this morning, as our team packs up 30,000 royal blue tees to be…
I have always had awful penmanship. Now, thanks to myscriptfont.com I’ve immortalized my awful handwriting in font form. So, instead of using Helvetica as my go-to font for all purposes, “Tom’s Hand” will be my default font. It was easy…
Coming up in the industry and living in the SF Bay Area, the operation known as Winterland Productions was the stuff of legend and it seemed everybody had a story of working at or with the biggest, baddest, and coolest print shop around. The company was founded by Bill Graham with the name of course…
Came across this in Reddit Vintage Advertisements, enjoy…
If you’re attending ISS Nashville c’mon and join us for the 3rd Annual Nashville Honky Tonk Hoedown at Layla’s. Event starts at 5pm, right after the show on Thursday May 19th. It’s less than a 10 min walk from the show. Authentic live rockin’ country music (The Rische Sisters!), drinks, and of course free t-shirts (courtesy of Hanes and…
This Mis-Print Monday comes from our buddy Joe Matarazzo of Good Fellas Merch. The shocking video almost say’s it all but here’s the story from Joe himself: A can of screen opener fell onto the dryer belt, then rolled into the heat chamber and must have slipped off the belt and lodged itself somewhere inside of the…
This is a big deal… Ennis, Inc. Announces Acceptance of $110 Million Superior Offer for its Apparel Division. Read the whole story here
As a followup to my recent post showing several pallets worth of accumulated mis-prints, I’d like to share a few points/answer a few questions: First off, why do we save our mis-prints in the first place? Don’t we just turn them into test print material? This has been addressed in a previous post titled “Spoilage Management” Secondly, and…
Today we have a guest post from our buddy Brett Bowden of Printed Threads. On the topic of discharge printing Brett shares a very useful trick with us: A while back Rick wrote a post about using nail polish to block out registration marks on screens being used for water based inks. What a good…
