In case you missed it, here’s the official t-shirt. I designed this print with some sort of approximation of a vintage 1980’s album cover in mind. It makes me think of “The Boss” and I don’t mean Tony Danza. As prints go, this one was fairly simple: a mix of standard and soft plastisol…
This is the end of an era, or end of another chapter anyway. The New Buffalo Shirt Factory was the gold standard for shirt printing, specializing in highly detailed sports and rock images on black shirts. The owner Jon Weiss had a license plate that said “King of Black.” Jon sold to Gildan a couple…
This year the Ink Kitchen and our sponsors and with a little help with our pals at Sam Adams will host the second annual Nashville Honky Tonk Hoedown on Thursday May 7th right after the show. Drop by any of our sponsors booths for details. Speaking of sponsors, here are a few of our sponsor’s booth…
Every year we look forward to a parade of funny and interesting t-shirts at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. This year that didn’t really happen. We found some but it was rather slim pickings but that’s the way fashion rolla. And just when you think you know what’s in and what’s out, you don’t.…
We recently/unfortunately lost our screen-tech. Anyone whom has lost a (good) longtime employee knows how much this sucks, thus I’m categorizing this post under Mis-Print Monday. But, when life gives you lemons… Our man Paul (Production Artist now but spent years as our Screen Tech) stepped up not only by training our Screen Reclaim Tech to…
Since Rick and I have been talking about reflective printing I thought I’d share a sample printed with a product made by Rutland. The product is ER0200 Reflective Gray and we have had nothing but solid results specifically with fashion prints where the subtle tone-on-tone look under ambient light was preferred. Of course under direct light you…
When we first started in business in Cambridge, MA in the late 80’s, we were near MIT the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There I meet Andy Hong of the MIT Media Lab, the first customer who brought a case of beer to us to thank us for a job well done. I digress… Being near…
We’ve seen a sharp increase in demand for reflective printing in the last couple of years. When it comes to reflective decoration options abound. Certain products have been developed for fashion where the effect is primarily, for lack of a better term, a gimmick to products for function, like safety. We’ve found that when reflectivity is paramount nothing…
A Polish designer, Kamil Piatkowski, has created a bottle design called Regular Beer that uses screen printing to elegantly save on the mental and physical energy used to print bottle labels. The post on psfk combines what is of interest to many readers of this blog, printing and beer, not necessarily in that order…
Being a contract printer (ASI supplier) for ASI distributors and other promotional product “professionals” is a love/hate relationship if ever there was one. When the relationship goes well it is a great cooperative arrangement and the distributor (in their white hat of course emblazoned with their clever name and logo) is our financier, our great…
