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My pal Jon just had a fire at his shop Pop Tops this past weekend. The cause is still being investigated, but it appears to have started while nobody was there in the screen room. A few good things: – Nobody was hurt, no firefighters or employees – Sprinklers kept the fire from spreading –…

Can you fix a garment dyed shirt that has a pinhole or smudge of ink on it? Short answer: No. An ounce of prevention is worth…in this case an infinite amount of cure. My pals at Albatross said they would be millionaires if they had a spot cleaning product for this application. They have all…

I met Andy MacDougal for the first time at the SGIA this year. He clearly is a talented screenprinter, a good guy and a funny guy. He has a cool website called Squeegeeville with among other things a good basic screenprinting book and simple equipment, in particular a great simple vacuum table set up for printing posters.  If…

I’ve shared my thoughts about screen coating on The Ink Kitchen.  Saati seems to have incorporated both precision and ruggedness into their Pro Coat automatic screen-coater. I am re-evaluating my position.  

Often people ask when I see them at shows, “What’s New?” I usually point out that you have to check out the solid steady vendors who often don’t have anything new. Screenprinting is called that for a reason, you need screens! If you are going with rigid frames, the  solid solid rigid frame company is…

Photo of Ray Miles and I. Ray has a shop in Jamaica. I have corresponded with him for many years and finally got to meet him. The best part of our industry trade shows is meeting up with other printers, meeting new ones, seeing ones you already know. Lord knows our friends, families and employees…

One legend is on the left in that photo.  Artem Nadirashvili has done some of the most outlandishly innovative screenprints on t-shirts that I have ever seen.  His shop midigroup is in Moscow in Russian. He is also a jazz fan and all around totally interesting dude. Next to him is French screenprinter Michel Caza who…

I saw some cool stuff at SGIA today. This is first of a few posts from here in Atlanta. Saati has a point source light that is LED, super fast exposure, constant exposure, energy saving, and what I like, super simple design. You can even control it from your phone via bluetooth if the control…

Just wrapped up a very busy day-1 of the show.  Rick’s going to be sharing a few points of interest shortly, but here’s a nice look at the show floor from above…