Shame Shame Shame. Sometimes we can’t just learn things once or twice, we are forced to learn them over and over. Sometimes we get something right and then we get complacent and we screw up again. At ISS Atlantic City the Ink Kitchen hosted some shop talks and one was a very good one by…
Plenty of reasons to attend ISS Atlantic City that occur on the convention floor. There actually are almost more reasons to go to the show outside of the show, and I don’t mean losing your money in the casinos. AC has some great eats and a few great sights. At the risk of causing longer…
People always are asking how to be a better screenprinter. Today let’s talk some philosophy with our inspiration coming from power hitter J.D. Martinez who just signed a 110 million dollar contract with the Red Sox, 71 year old hitting instructor Craig Wallenbrock, and Martin Luther King Jr. How do you make your printing better?…
Most of us communicate color information using the Pantone Matching System or “PMS”, (though not to be confused with the condition PMS or Premenstrual Syndrome.) Pantone also every year announces the “Color of the Year.” They scour the globe and come up with a color. This year it is Pantone 18-3838 Ultraviolet. The Pantone Institute…
Rick talks MHM presses and the importance of beer at trade-shows with Thomas Fröhlich, CEO of MHM, at ISS Long Beach 2018.
ISS Long Beach brought Round One of The Ink Kitchen Hang Out, with vinyl, beer and a place to hang out and get to know people. Check out the show highlights now and keep an eye out for more coming soon.
Having talked shop with quite a few people at ISS Long Beach I have detected quite a bit of wishful thinking going on out there about screens. With some shops there seems to be a bit of a move away from Newman Roller Frames and in my opinion most of that thinking is not thorough…
You can see the piece the local TV station did on our company Mirror Image printing Patriots shirts here. The story is accurate but the back story had a little more pain in it. “Hot market printing” is the phrase used to describe printing shirts right after a local championship game so that shirts can…
We’re at ISS Long Beach in the back room (Pacific Ballroom.) Come hang out with your fellow decorators and spin some vinyl, have a beer, take a load off and sit on the couch and talk shop with us. MHM booth 3503 is the site of the Ink Kitchen hang out, come join us.
Know-It-All Brett Bowden talks about why you should attend the upcoming ThreadX conference.
