This “expectation vs. reality” example shows that this “simple” and “clever” concept is actually not so simple to achieve (and maybe not that clever?) We get a ton of requests to print black ink on a black shirt. To achieve the effect, the following considerations must be taken into account: First, and most importantly, what…
From our pal Brett Bowden at Printed Threads in Texas comes this tale of woe. It doesn’t seem right to publish a story about a “bedeviled” Christian shirt on Christmas (this coming Monday) so we put this out today, a Friday. The joys of printing on Triblends (cotton, polyester, rayon) that are 100% black… Our…
Guest post from our pal Brett Bowden from Printed Threads in Texas: Earlier this year I was getting frustrated at our pallet storage situation. We have so many different sizes of pallets and at any given time we might need to move them from press 1 to press 4. After looking at all of our…
Great piece on new North Korean technology at Bluerock Public Radio’s website. Satire is a great weapon. It does give me occasion to tell of my interaction with a t-shirt cannon. Some years back I was at a minor league hockey game of the Providence Bruins. Some up with people looking folks skate out between…
Finally… a conference designed for us by us. ThreadX is for business owners and managers seeking insights on the current state of and the future of the decorated apparel industry. Top-notch speakers, including Johnny Cupcakes!
This poor guy just wanted a t-shirt without a “left chest” duplicated on the back of the shirt… This is the last time I order anything from a third party seller on Amazon byu/HystericallyAccurate inExpectationVsReality
Found this on Reddit and thought it just had to be shared here… Comics Sans in Famous Logos byu/SWAMPMONK ingraphic_design
We recently took a field trip to Fort Worth, home of Printed Threads and The General Store. Joined by my good buddy Paul Riva, Owner/Founder of Apparel Graphics in Oakdale, CA, we barely made our 5am flight out of SMF and in just a few hours we were picked up at Dallas Love Field by Brett and…
Sad to say, this may be true.
A very special guest post from our friend Brett at Printed Threads: The garment industry has done a really great job of making shirts harder and harder to print on. The ink industry is trying to keep up with them. Dealing with dye migration on poly garments has become fairly easy because we are used…
