From February 2019, Want to know what $8 piece causes 85% of the problems that happen with your $25,000 embroidery machine? At ISS Long Beach 2019, we sat down with Bill Garvin of BG Tech, a Tampa-based embroidery technician who services 80 to 100 shops a month on the East Coast, for a no-nonsense ShopTalk…
Wow. Many of us didn’t see this coming. Bella+Canvas announced today they are being purchased by SanMar. Bella+Canvas co-founders Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge announced the confirmed sale today. It looks like they will not be involved as things move forward under SanMar ownership You can read the full press release here. In good news…
Back in 2015 Rick got a scam email from “Ken” wanting to ship shirts to the Solomon Islands. No address, no phone number, broken English, and a credit card as the payment method. Rick’s advice was simple: if it’s too good to be true, it is. Delete it and move on. Phony orders scam screen…
Rick was the inaugural guest on Raising the Stakes a new podcast hosted by Jed Seifert, co-founder of Stakes MFG, about the rise-and-give-back stories of people who use their businesses for something bigger. The conversation goes from printing his first shirts to save a building at Colgate, going $400K in debt and paying everyone back…
Being a big baseball fan I was thrilled to work in perhaps the best defensive game ever played into an inkkitchen.com post. Jo Adell robbed three home runs, catching three balls headed over the fence and preserving a 1-0 victory. This isn’t some Madden video BS, this is some real flesh and blood stuff. This…
We ran a post back in 2014 about a silkscreening nun named Sister Corita Kent. Her connection to screenprinting was mostly a footnote at the time—she had just popped up as a Google Doodle. Honestly, most of us didn’t know much about her. But the more you dig into Corita Kent’s screenprinting legacy, the more…
You’ve been asked to go to a trade show. Maybe you’re already sold on the business case, or maybe you’re still on the fence about the time and expense. There are lots of reasons to go to trade shows, and I’m telling you that Atlantic City gets a bad rap. One of my best friends…
The next stop on the Ink Kitchen annual poster printing tour is Atlantic City — this week, starting on Thursday, March 26–29 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. For those who haven’t been following along, here’s the short version: each year at the Impressions shows since 2020, we print limited-edition screen-printed posters live on the…
I run projects across multiple businesses, a screen printing company, a media organization and others. The action items live everywhere. In people’s heads, in transcript files, in meeting notes. Nowhere centralized. I needed to make something everyone on specific teams could access and edit from any device, no app installs, no logins. So I built…
This year’s poster printing at the Impressions show in Long Beach did not go as planned. Not even close. And yet, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our sponsors, we were able to donate $15,000 to Care Closet LBC — which for a charity with almost no overhead, does a great deal for homeless folks…
