The Ink Kitchen

Rose colored glasses, but a great video anyway.

A couple of years ago while trolling the streets of Cleveland with my buddy Jacob Edwards, co-founder/co-owner of Jakprints, we came across a typical-to-Cleveland brick building with a giant sign reading “Daffy Dan’s Custom Screenprinting” complete with a badass cutout caricature of Dan himself!  “What’s that???” I said aloud.  “Oh, that’s Daffy Dan, he’s been…

A while back I did a post on PosiCharge, a new technology developed by Sanmar: Synthetic fabric without the dye migration.  It’s no joke, but I’m glad to see that our friends at Sanmar have sense of humor enough to produce this great commercial…

Let me say upfront that this post has little to do with screenprinting.  But, I thought it was worth posting as I’m sure that most of you, like me, end up in Las Vegas on occasion to attend any one of the many trade shows in our industry. Between the SGIA Expo, PPAI Expo, MAGIC, and…

I’m here at MAGIC Market Week again, working on behalf of SGIA to educate on decorated apparel practices.  My friends Lon  and Jason developed this print exclusively for the show.  Two things about Lon: 1. He knows that “shiny” is best way to grab attention at a show 2. He’s not afraid to print big dots Good stuff……

¿El diseño está torcido, descentrado, demasiado alto o girado a la derecha o a la izquierda? Si te lo estás preguntando posiblemente sea una muestra a desechar. Si dejas que algo llegue al cliente y éste saca la regla estás acabado. Las camisetas las hacen (y cargan) seres humanos reales y esto supone que no…

Do you remember your first big purchase?  I remember mine, it was a used (barely) Oyo Techstyler, a thermal imagesetter, and it really was revolutionized my little two-man print shop which was in its infancy.  I bought the machine at a local auction that I attended with a friend/former employer for roughly $4700 dollars.  This was…

I recently met with a perspective customer.  He was questioning the quality he was receiving from his current print provider and brought a couple of samples to get my take.  His issue was with the heavy “hand” on the white discharge ink in his printed designs.  “It looks great but it feels like shit, until you…

The Library of Congress Online Prints and Photographs Collection has been an invaluable resource to me over the years.  Millions of hi-res images in thousands of categories, a majority of which are unrestricted use in the public domain.  The site is ugly and the functionality is clunky (hey, it’s the government), but it is well…

When you stumble upon something like this in your shop all you can say is: WTF?