No, I’m not talking about too many hats in the literal sense, i.e.: we’ve got 3 days to embroider 10,000 caps with only 12 embroidery heads to work with. Been there, done that. Here I am talking figuratively about wearing too many hats and if you are anything like me you are in fact wearing too…
We recently sent our Rapid Tag label press to the manufacturer, ASPE, for an extensive repair/maintenance/retrofit. They promised that the machine would look and perform like new, but even better as they would be upgrading this first generation machine. When the press arrived I was not dissapointed…
At Motion Textile we are working on implementing legit carts for job staging (we currently use these flat shelf utility carts which are awesome for garment staging but not so much for job staging). If you incorporate job staging (I’ll define this as the collection of screens, inks, squeegees and flood bars per production specifications in advance of a scheduled print…
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In case you missed it, here’s the official t-shirt. I designed this print with some sort of approximation of a vintage 1980’s album cover in mind. It makes me think of “The Boss” and I don’t mean Tony Danza. As prints go, this one was fairly simple: a mix of standard and soft plastisol…
We recently/unfortunately lost our screen-tech. Anyone whom has lost a (good) longtime employee knows how much this sucks, thus I’m categorizing this post under Mis-Print Monday. But, when life gives you lemons… Our man Paul (Production Artist now but spent years as our Screen Tech) stepped up not only by training our Screen Reclaim Tech to…
Since Rick and I have been talking about reflective printing I thought I’d share a sample printed with a product made by Rutland. The product is ER0200 Reflective Gray and we have had nothing but solid results specifically with fashion prints where the subtle tone-on-tone look under ambient light was preferred. Of course under direct light you…
We’ve seen a sharp increase in demand for reflective printing in the last couple of years. When it comes to reflective decoration options abound. Certain products have been developed for fashion where the effect is primarily, for lack of a better term, a gimmick to products for function, like safety. We’ve found that when reflectivity is paramount nothing…
Sorry in advance to all of my friends from Chicago. I am enjoying your very windy city, but today I came across quite a sight walking past the Under Armour store downtown. It was the biggest t-shirt I’ve ever seen and it was emblazoned with a Chicago arc text and Cubs logo. On account of content, physique,…
I’ll do a full post on this project at a later date, but I thought it worth mentioning that these screens, squeegees, and inks ain’t just for printing t-shirts…
