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Printing on Polyester – Part 2

Printing on Poly, real world shirt issue: 1. On left: plasticizer test, 320 degrees for 30 seconds heat transferred to white square. That’s quite a bit of dye on the white. If we had done that test before printing a sample we would have saved ourselves some grief later. 2. On the bottom is our…

Web Wednesday: Creative Market

Creative Market  is my new favorite place on the web for fonts, design resources, and so much more.  Check it…

Testing Polyester Fabric for Dye Migration – Part One

Ok, you have a shirt and it has some or all polyester content, what do you do? Too many printers I see P & P it. “P & P” is what I call “print and pray” and no matter what religion you do or don’t follow, I would keep prayer out of your printing operation.…

Misprint (Mis-fire) Monday – Fine Art or Quilt Square? Marilyn Monroe style.

Sometimes you can do a great job and everything is perfect and it all may not be a mis-print but it may result in a “mis-fire.” Twice we set up to reproduce Richard Avedon photos of Marilyn Monroe on a black shirt. Both times we did some of our best work we have ever done…

The Honky Tonk Hoedown Rundown

A great time was had by one and all at the first ever Ink Kitchen Honky Tonk Hoedown held at Layla’s on Broadway in Nashville on the opening day of the first ever ISS Nashville show. Thanks to all our sponsors, attendees, Layla, the U-Twang Clan and our awesome guest dancers, we had a whole…

¿Cómo se sabe si la tinta se ha curado sobre una camiseta?

Normalmente se ha de lavar para ver si la tinta destiñe. Consiga una lavadora y una secadora para tu trabajo o llévate las camisas a casa. Esta es la única manera de saber si la tinta se ha curado. Puedes usar todo tipo de sondas de calor y dispositivos para hacer pruebas con la temperatura…

The Cheap Dude (or dudette) Factor

I figured I should post about single head embroidery machines with a laser since one of the cheapest dudes I have ever met in the industry has just purchased one. I’m sure Hirsch/Tajima can give you the numbers to run yourself, but I”m telling you that this guy I know would not be getting one…

A Little Action at ISS Nashville

Our friends at Action Engineering never seem to stop innovating…  

Come On Down to the Hoedown

Party’s about to get started at Layla’s on Broadway. Come on to the Honk Tonk Hoedown!

ISS Nashville Pre-Show Report

We went to check out the beautiful new Music City Center today to get a preview of what some of our IK Sponsors will be showing at the ISS Nashville Show for the next three days. We saw the Kornit Breeze and a Tajima single head laser at the Hirsch booth. (#604). American Apparel (Booth #704) has…

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