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…
Sorry in advance to all of my friends from Chicago. I am enjoying your very windy city, but today I came across quite a sight walking past the Under Armour store downtown. It was the biggest t-shirt I’ve ever seen and it was emblazoned with a Chicago arc text and Cubs logo. On account of content, physique,…
I’ll do a full post on this project at a later date, but I thought it worth mentioning that these screens, squeegees, and inks ain’t just for printing t-shirts…
I can’t show it, but we warped a print last week and have to set up the job again today to print one piece for a good customer that has to have this small order perfect. We put too much adhesive on the platen and warped the print when we yanked it off the press. Those…
Checkout Wearables Digital April/May 2015 Issue. In addition to the regular Ink Kitchen column, this issue includes a nice piece called “Building a Better T-Shirt”, complete with some examples from Mirror Image and Motion Textile.
