I always appreciate presentation of a shirt, sometimes it is better than the shirt print itself. Mac’s Seafood in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod had some nice shirts, and the presentation was better. They used bags for mussels and put the shirts in those.
If you misprint something or if it is a close call, you have to get the info to the customer asap. For me, I don’t want them approving something that is clearly wrong, and I don’t want the customer to make judgements without all the information. Usually we don’t worry that much about yellow dye…
Demasiado a menudo un cliente insiste en que la imagen de sus camisetas debe de estar a conjunto con los carteles publicitarios, señales, posters, carpas, anuncios revistas, etc. Farm Aid y el artista que creó el logo, Kathy Keller hicieron un trabajo estupendo, especialmente creando variaciones para web, pósters, tickets y lo más importante para…
Marshall Atkinson’s blog has some good tips on hiring for screenprinting. I particularly like his idea of hiring for the right attitude and then training for the skills. I have a couple simple additions. – Don’t hire people to unload or catch only, if they can’t load don’t permanently hire them. An eye for quality…
There is no such thing as a perfect ink mixing system (or even a really good mixing system). Formulas are often inaccurate by several shades (yes, I’ve experienced this consistently across several mixing systems and it is not for lack of a high-end scale). So what do you do when you know a color will…
I just love simple machines. This heat transfer machine for putting on labels is fast, accurate and safe. We have done hundreds of thousands of transfer labels with it. – You need two hands to make it come down (a green button on each side) so you can’t get your hands caught under the stamper…
Here’s a great article and video by the WSJ on finding the perfect t-shirt. Enjoy…
I talked to my good friend and great sports mind Mike Manning this morning. He said he loved that the Royals won the wild card play-off game in a walk-off 12th inning comeback. “Even with all those ex-Sox guys on the A’s?” I asked. “We’ve got tons of inventory in Royal and we had nothing…
We recently pulled off a multi-color foil without an in-line foil setup. How you ask? A manual press, a super hot flash, and a teflon coated screen. I think you get the idea.
It doesn’t happen very often but when it does I always ask myself the same question, “how did we all miss this?”. A typo, right in front of your face goes unnoticed by all involved parties: designer, end-user, distributor, and printer. It is only caught moments before production is set to commence during a “first print…
