The Ink Kitchen

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…

SGIA Expo 2015 is here and The Know-It-All’s have landed in ATL. If you couldn’t make it, no worries, we’ll be doing posts from the show all week and will be sure to show you the latest and greatest.  If you are here, be sure to visit our sponsors, we’ll be hanging at their booth spaces…

Today’s post comes from our pal Garrett Kaule of Kaule Screen Works in Pittsburgh, PA. He has an MHM press and a great feature of it is the honeycomb platens that wick away heat and are super flat. However, they also are very expensive and you don’t want to ding them up. To keep them…

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…