Tom and I visited the Hirsch showroom and office in NC. We received some great hospitality and we got to see some of the best equipment available for shirt decoration: Kornit Direct to Garment, MHM Automatic Textile Press, Tajima Embroidery, and Seit Lasers. Ostensibly it was to show some folks that were new to the…
Rick and I are on a tour of North Carolina and South Carolina this week. Today we visited the Rutland Group. We’ve both been loyal Rutland ink customers for years and I must say, this being my first visit, it was really something to finally see where the magic happens. Though our hosts were more than…
In this day and age, it is not really a good excuse to plead ignorance about where your shirts are made. There is usually some information on the label, and then there is this thing called “the internet” where you can do either a little or a lot of research. In the coming weeks we’ll…
One of my first posts on The Ink Kitchen was entitled Hot Market Heartbreak. In that post I talked about the disappointment your team doesn’t win in a hot market situation (especially if you are actually a fan of the team you are slated to print for). Wednesday night, however, was a different story. My…
Ah yes, the SGIA 2014 show. In Part 1 I made the point that boring can be ok. Putting solid machines and solid supplies on display is not such a bad idea. I’m usually skeptical about new wondrous devices and magical supplies that will solve all my problems and make me a millionaire anyway. Put…
SGIA 2014. Did I see anything new? Well not that much but that doesn’t mean at all that it was not worth attending. I saw friends. I talked to new vendors. I had time to talk face-to-face with established vendors. I got to talk shop with other owners. I got to see what is trending and…
Note the beer tap in the foreground. KIWO really has the ideal booth in our industry. They have their DTS unit so you can see it working, they have their best most knowledgeable staff, and they know how to be hospitable and friendly, and of course beer helps with that. More technical posts from the…
Desafortunadamente vivo en la que es una de las ciudades menos acogedoras, Boston, y su aeropuerto (Logan) está en mi lista de los diez peores del mundo. Tratan a todos como criminales en potencia y a partir de ahí todo se viene abajo. No tiene que ser así. El aeropuerto de Munich alberga lugares para…
I live in what unfortunately is one of the unfriendliest towns in the world Boston and the airport (Logan) definitely makes my top ten for worst airports. They seem to treat everyone as a good-for-nothing criminal and it goes downhill from there. It doesn’t have to be that way.The Munich airport has places to work…
Our shop and a friend’s shop were all ready to print shirts of the fight poster design for the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana boxing match and were told somewhat abruptly that the job had been cancelled by the client. We didn’t really know what had happened until we spotted this article about a tweet heard round the creative world…
