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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…

Trying to get the mail notification back up and running. Our apologies if you’ve missed us!

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.