Q: What temperature should I set my dryer at? A: I don’t know. That’s the best answer to that question. Another answer is to say, “whatever temperature raises the ink film temperature to 320 degrees for ten seconds.” Curing ink will be affected by the ambient temperature, how long your drying chamber is, the height…
Last week we ran a big Ink Kitchen list of reasons why you might not hold detail in your prints. My pals at Saati had a little more feedback. It is their usual type of feedback, helpful and practical. “First, make sure to run an exposure (cure) test and at least get into the range…
Coming up in the industry and living in the SF Bay Area, the operation known as Winterland Productions was the stuff of legend and it seemed everybody had a story of working at or with the biggest, baddest, and coolest print shop around. The company was founded by Bill Graham with the name of course…
This question comes up often with screenprinters: why can we not hold detail? The answer is an idea similar to the art department concept of problems with source artwork where we say “garbage in, garbage out.” We are now are transferring that idea to print production. Basically, if you have a crappy stencil you have no chance…
We recently visited Anderson Studios in Nashville, TN. He has won more screenprinting awards than all of you readers put together. For printing the proof is not measuring dots or holding some line screen, the proof is what the prints look like. Andy Anderson’s prints are phenomenal and we’ll get into that in future posts.…
Came across this in Reddit Vintage Advertisements, enjoy…
In the early days of my screenprinting we were totally operating blind. I didn’t even know there were shirts in printers folds and I bought thousands of bags of Hanes undershirts in three packs and in my basement “shop” I had giant stacks of cardboard and bags of plastic bags that I ripped open. We…
The humidistat photo comes from Andy Anderson’s darkroom. You would find something similar in ours at Mirror Image, both a similar device and most days (I hope) similar readings. As Summer is upon us in most of the country which means heat and humidity for most of us. As always keep your darkroom dark or…
This is a great shirt of Andy Anderson’s that was in the Impressions show. “Great shirt of Andy Anderson’s” is a phrase that has come out of many mouths many times. That dude can print. I hope to visit his shop tomorrow and post next week on what the Nashville King of Printing is up…
If you’re attending ISS Nashville c’mon and join us for the 3rd Annual Nashville Honky Tonk Hoedown at Layla’s. Event starts at 5pm, right after the show on Thursday May 19th. It’s less than a 10 min walk from the show. Authentic live rockin’ country music (The Rische Sisters!), drinks, and of course free t-shirts (courtesy of Hanes and…
