Whether by flash or by dryer, you can easily scorch shirts, which means the top hairs are slightly burned and give it a tan cast. If it is anything but a white shirt, the shirt is ruined. Don’t waste your time trying to fix it. Very slight scorching is very hard to see unless you…
From our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads: Something that I have struggled with for a long time is placement. Where is the perfect place to start a print. Is it 4 fingers from the collar? Are my hands a normal size? When struggling to decide if something is printed in a spot that will…
Today’s post comes from our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads. Everybody’s working for the weeken We have been really busy lately. It always seems like when you have no time for problems, that is when problems arise. The other night we were printing shirts after business hours when we realized a small problem.…
Congratulations to our good friend Kevin McCracken and his crew at Social Imprints for winning the 2015 Fast Company & Mercedes Benz “Drive Your Business Forward” Contest
I’ll do a future post on tips and tricks for avoiding errors. Here is one that reared it’s ugly head. Last week we sponsored the Pawtucket Film Festival. I focused hard on not messing up the name of one of the musicians. Her name is spelled A-L-L-Y-S-E-N which is unusual at least in the States…
The Daft Punk Official Merchandise site created these bitchin’ vintage-esque posters for each item in the store…
When you are printing millions of shirts annually it doesn’t matter how tight QC is, some mis-prints will slip through the cracks. Typically we are shipping to a distribution center where additional QC inspections are performed and any mis-prints are be caught, and yet, some mis-prints will still slip through. Surely we’ve all noticed this browsing printed…
I was stoked that the road back from Farm Aid passes right by Jakprints and I got to see my buds the owners Jacob and Dameon and my other buds working there LT and Jeff and to talk shop and as always to have a good time. My take on Jakprints is that two skatepunks…
Start Screenprinting Now is site for textile decorators. Some good stuff, especially for those new to the industry.
Another tool in fighting dye migration is “Poly white.” We use Rutland’s “Super Poly White” but other companies have similar formulations. In some ways the game has been upped. Once you could sometimes use cotton white on 50/50’s and a white for 50/50’s would always work. Now sometimes we can’t even count on the dye…
