The Ink Kitchen

While so many of us are consumed with the technical side of our craft it’s easy to lose sight of the business side.  If you haven’t noticed, the industry is changing. Checkout InkMonk

It seems almost every day somebody asks another dye migration question. In this case we received a garment dyed shirt with very bad dye migration into the white and light ink colors. We test printed one of those same problematic garments  with a Rutland poly white underprint and cotton white overprint got great results. With…

It seems like every day now I see a protest shirt on somebody in the news. Honestly, I think there is plenty to speak out about and shirts have been and always will be a way to get your message across so in fact it is not really surprising. The first shirt I helped somebody…

Andre Agassi wasn’t kidding when when he said “image is everything”.  It was true for both Canon cameras and the man himself (oh those feathery locks).  In all seriousness though, the phrase truly does apply to screen-printing. This shirt is one that I include in presentations, simply to show our customers why we use so many…

Some times you slip up a little and sometimes you really blow it.  We recently blew it on a simple print (which was of course printed on very expensive garments).  The job was rejected by our customer because text elements “disappeared”.  Upon internal investigation I was told that the first print “looked great” and yet…

In 2005 while trying to help raise money for Katrina disaster relief, we came up with this mosaic style design using a high density base giving the tiles some height and overprinting the various colors on top. We’ve pulled this style out of the archives with a remix for WMBR which is a community radio…

Pro Basketball At Nets’ Game, a Plan for a Simple Statement Is Carried Out to a T LeBron James, Jay-Z and More Made ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-Shirts Happen in the N.B.A. T-shirts in the news again. A front page New York Times article today on LeBron James and other players wearing “I Can’t Breathe” shirts.…

Today a Google image search for “Christmas T-Shirts” produced some “nice” results…

The other day I received these promotional Nano samples from our friends at Hanes.  I was impressed, for once, to receive decorated garment samples from a manufacturer which actually incorporated tasteful design and quality printing.  Well done Hanes, well done.

One of my running buddies sent me a text the day before a big marathon we both ran yesterday.  In the message he asked if we had printed the shirts for the event, knowing of course that we do this type of work.  I replied that we did not print the shirts for this high-profile…