So, we all get asked to fold and bag shirts on occasion. For us, it might only be once a month or so… which does not necessitate purchasing a folding machine. When we do get asked, we are usually being asked to fold thousands of shirts however. Trying to get a floppy shirt into a…
The “CA Faux Appliqué” design which we printed live at ISS Long Beach garnered tremendous attention. The Hirsch booth was swamped with folks wanting samples and of course wanting to know “how’s it printed?”. Questions ranged from “do you do the stitching before the print?” or “that’s not really ink, is it?” to “what’s your EOM on the…
Day 1 of ISS Long Beach was hopping! We’re printing live at the show in the Hirsch booth on the MHM SP-5000 and giving the shirts away at the Hanes booth as they come off the dryer. The deal is– give us a like on social media and we’ll give you one of these cool X-Temp shirts.…
Here is a sneak peek of the shirt we’ll be printing at the Hirsch booth on Hanes X-Temp shirts at the ISS Long Beach show. Come watch us print at Hirsch, booth #1635 and #1735, and get your free shirt at the Hanes booth #1227. All the Know It Alls will be there to chat and answer your garment and decorating questions.
Our friends at Sanmar have already proven their commitment to decorators with their Decorator Relations Team. Now they’re taking a huge step forward with Sanmar U, a site dedicated to education on both products and decoration. The Ink Kitchen will be working closely with Sanmar U, lending expert advice, blog posts, and product testing.
A few years old, but this post from MNN is still worth a read.
Now that the dust has settled from the holiday madness I’d like to say, on behalf of The Ink Kitchen, “Happy New Year” to all of our industry friends. You likely noticed that I was mostly silent during the latter half of 2015. Between overseeing our busiest year ever at Motion Textile and welcoming a new…
It is kind of amazing that people get so riled up over protest shirts, but they surely do. The shirt in question today is Andrew Hawkins of the Cleveland Browns wore a shirt calling for justice for Tamir Rice, a 12 y.o. child shot by Cleveland police officers. Hard to believe, but the officers in…
Warning! Rant coming. People get their panties in a bunch over being told Merry Christmas when they are not Christian, or Happy Holidays when they are Christian. I’m not much about caring regarding either of those things (though I can see the insult inherent in wishing non-Christians a happy Christian holiday.) It being a Capitalist…
Apologies if this is the second notification of a test post that you receive. We ran into a little funky business in the backend of our blog and email notifications had stopped going out. With trade show season coming up right after the holidays I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss any of the…
