My wife Pam (social media director of the Ink Kitchen!) and I are going to work with a Polish friend of ours who is part of an international group of volunteers that is putting on an awesome event in the country of Georgia. It is in a location which shares borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan, a…
My good pal Carl Williams who works for the ACLU showed me this clever site. I’ve seen many shirts about free speech and the U.S. Constitution, but these Fourth Amendment garments take the cake, they are very creative expressions about unreasonable search and seizure. AMENDMENT IV The right of the people to be secure in…
For this Throwback Thursday I’m sharing a video a shop made a few years ago. This is painful to watch. It is also hilarious, and I think nearly every line in it I have actually heard, and many of the lines I have heard over and over. There are a bunch of swears, don’t watch if…
A while back I did a post on PosiCharge, a new technology developed by Sanmar: Synthetic fabric without the dye migration. It’s no joke, but I’m glad to see that our friends at Sanmar have sense of humor enough to produce this great commercial…
Let me say upfront that this post has little to do with screenprinting. But, I thought it was worth posting as I’m sure that most of you, like me, end up in Las Vegas on occasion to attend any one of the many trade shows in our industry. Between the SGIA Expo, PPAI Expo, MAGIC, and…
I’m here at MAGIC Market Week again, working on behalf of SGIA to educate on decorated apparel practices. My friends Lon and Jason developed this print exclusively for the show. Two things about Lon: 1. He knows that “shiny” is best way to grab attention at a show 2. He’s not afraid to print big dots Good stuff……
¿El diseño está torcido, descentrado, demasiado alto o girado a la derecha o a la izquierda? Si te lo estás preguntando posiblemente sea una muestra a desechar. Si dejas que algo llegue al cliente y éste saca la regla estás acabado. Las camisetas las hacen (y cargan) seres humanos reales y esto supone que no…
With the proliferation of fashionable garments, more and more customers that would have manufactured their own garments merely relabel an existing garment. I got a call today from an old friend in the business today and he said, “I figured my cost is $.70, but I know they won’t pay that!” Little tiny print unfortunately…
My review of the music video “Don’t You Start:” Glad to see ear protection while reclaiming, but in the printing scene maybe I would have had the screen a little more off contact using a couple cardboard tabs… I remember an old Letterman bit where he had an actual welder come on the show and…
Do you remember your first big purchase? I remember mine, it was a used (barely) Oyo Techstyler, a thermal imagesetter, and it really was revolutionized my little two-man print shop which was in its infancy. I bought the machine at a local auction that I attended with a friend/former employer for roughly $4700 dollars. This was…
