The Ink Kitchen

ISS Long Beach 2015 was another strong show.  The Ink Kitchen was there of course, doing what we do.  Checkout the show highlights.

Day 1 of the Atlantic City ISS show was fast paced, with lots of people coming by all day. I got out and saw a few cool things. The coolest thing I saw was Ross Balfour of Saati had a Seek add-on camera to his smartphone that both visually shows you infrared images and reads…

If you’re at ISS Atlantic City come by booth 505 and celebrate the comeback of Know-It-All Rick Roth.

The Ink Kitchen will have our “Know-It-All” booth at #505. We have many industry luminaries stopping by, some cool shirts to check out, wanted and unwanted advice, recommendations for every aspect of the garment trade and decorating garments, and a few free cool gifts. For what we don’t know, we have a Magic 8 Ball.…

Come on by and see us in booth 505 at the ISS Atlantic City show this weekend. Not only can we help you navigate the show, we can tell you good places to eat, too!

Trust Printshop recently redesigned their website to coincide with their move to a new facility in Fort Worth.  Owner Matt Lucas is not only a good friend of The Ink Kitchen but is also one of the smartest and most talented people in the industry today. Congratulations to Matt and the team at Trust on their…

I was recently talking to friend in the industry about offering custom printing vs. contract printing vs. doing both.  My thoughts on this matter have been consistent for the past ten years: choose one or the other, not both. I do not recommend offering both for specific reasons, i.e: the inevitable conflicts of interest that arise when you…

Fibrillation is defined as “the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.” I’m talking about that type of fibrillation in this post, but many a screenprinter has felt like they are going to have a heart attack over the type of fibrillation that happens to t-shirts. Fibrillation in screenprinting is when…

Florida mother sends badly bruised child to school wearing T-shirt proclaiming ‘good woopin’ This disturbing article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday. Truly a sad t-shirt.  Sorry to bum you out.

Rick’s post yesterday on printing tote bags made me think of a tote print we ran a few years ago, the Dolly Parton “Tote of Many Colors”.  The text is a play on Dolly’s hit song “Coat of Many Colors”.  This print is one of my favorites for a number of reasons: 1. It’s a great design…