Most retail lines understand the value in premium garments over basics and will thusly charge accordingly (think hoodies over tees, etc). Why is this not so with printing? We all know that it requires more work and costs more to produce a full color print over a single color print and most of us charge accordingly…
Quick post today. I have many inquiries lately about how to print a garment dyed shirt. Test the particular shirt and color, but many of them print well with discharge ink and that accentuates the softness of the shirts. Most colors most of the time print well with any good cotton white ink. If you…
Most of you who know me personally are aware that I’m a longtime Apple® user and evangelist (Jobs era at least). About 10 years ago I came across an original 128K Macintosh posted on ebay. I’d been reading a number of books about Steve Jobs and the original Mac team and, caught up in the…
Tom and I visited the Hirsch showroom and office in NC. We received some great hospitality and we got to see some of the best equipment available for shirt decoration: Kornit Direct to Garment, MHM Automatic Textile Press, Tajima Embroidery, and Seit Lasers. Ostensibly it was to show some folks that were new to the…
On Wednesday Tom touched on the magical new Rutland automatic ink color matching dispenser. I agree with Tom wholeheartedly that it is pretty rad. Other highlights of our “field trip” to the Rutland Group were meeting the new CEO Jeff Leone and checking out the color proofing area. Jeff is a very smart guy that…
Rick and I are on a tour of North Carolina and South Carolina this week. Today we visited the Rutland Group. We’ve both been loyal Rutland ink customers for years and I must say, this being my first visit, it was really something to finally see where the magic happens. Though our hosts were more than…
In this day and age, it is not really a good excuse to plead ignorance about where your shirts are made. There is usually some information on the label, and then there is this thing called “the internet” where you can do either a little or a lot of research. In the coming weeks we’ll…
Guest Post by our good pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads in Tejas. A few extra comments were added by the IK. The trend of foil has lasted longer than any of us thought it would. We added foil application to our toolbox at some point when one of our clients approached with an order…
Sometimes the simplest shirts are the best. This is a simple good one. Nobody likes the Jets, their coach Rex Ryan or their fans (at least not in New England.) So this Jets fan’s shirt says it all for this year when they are 1-8. Running this blog I don’t have to pretend to…
One of my first posts on The Ink Kitchen was entitled Hot Market Heartbreak. In that post I talked about the disappointment your team doesn’t win in a hot market situation (especially if you are actually a fan of the team you are slated to print for). Wednesday night, however, was a different story. My…
