The Ink Kitchen

Brett Bowden of Printed Threads goofing’ around.

Gildan just announced purchase of socks company Peds for $55 million (American not Canadian dollars…) This comes on the heels of their acquisitions in the past few years of Anvil, Comfort Colors, New Buffalo Shirt Company, and most recently Alstyle Apparel. Peds was in the news recently for “reshoring” some of their knitting. They brought…

Let’s talk pallet (platen actually…) adhesives. These are also called spray tack or roll tack. People think they are all the same. They are not. I actually consulted with a shop where bad adhesive was ruining their entire printing effort. They could not print in register and their shop was a mess. It does matter.…

When designing a logo for a race, event, concert, or company where t-shirts will figure heavily in the mix, here are some considerations: Don’t make it a full color or rasterized image. The logo should be a vector file so that it reproduces in bold color with clearly defined colors. Minimize blends. Blends are easy…

Good stuff from our friend Marshall Atkinson of ATKINSONTSHIRT.  Enjoy… Social Activism on the Shop Floor

Courtesy of CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND… http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/08/the-worst-t-shirts-of-lollapalooza-2016/

Nice distress filter on that ass, right? A tremendous photoshop filter created that nice distressed look, right?  Not! It is supposed to be a nice solid coating of ink and after washing it is not, it is cracked and washed off. That’s what ink looks like when it is not cured. For you non-printers out…

Hanes and Champion have a new site at hanesink.com for ordering a shirt, focused on all high schools and colleges. I guess it might cut into the businesses of a few people, but mostly it seems like it might lead to less aggravation and more business for most of us. If somebody wants a single shirt for…

“Pirate Printers” Raubdruckerin literally take to the streets in their home Berlin but also in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Paris and around the world and print shirts using objects on the streets. So cool. Some photos and then a more or less translation down below about what they are about. Raubdruckerin uses existing surfaces such as grids,…

We recently printed the wrong back on a series of four colors of shirts that have the same front but in different colors and one gets a different back. Last order somebody screwed up and we printed the wrong back on that one design. Everybody was told to be careful this time and print that…