In 2010 I called this post Hot Market Printing: Yankees (or Saints) Win! Same story this year really as we have another very good Quarterback Russell Wilson who was said to be too short. We have the same printer story as some shops in Seattle or Denver tonight on Superbowl Sunday who will be very…
Perhaps it’s the tasteful and appropriate use of discharge inks, maybe it’s the organic cotton blank by our friends at Econscious, or it could just be that the Pogues are such a great band. I don’t know, but sometimes it all just comes together and you end up with the perfect print.
We get a lot of questions, from both customers and printers, about printing over seams, off hems, over zippers (zippers to be covered in a future post). “can you do it?”, “how do you do it?”, “how do you maintain an even ink deposit?”. Based on these questions and personally witnessing some really bad work…
Trade shows are necessary to get people in the industry together all in one place and to see new stuff. The Imprinted Sportswear Show in Long Beach is no exception, in fact it is probably the biggest gathering of the tribe. Too often it is isolating and frankly boring, but it doesn’t need to be.…
This is a post that I first did a couple years ago about a disastrous problem called ghosting. Here’s our throwback Thursday version. Ghosting is a bit subtle or is going on hidden to the eye under the printed shirts as you stack them. If you don’t watch it you will have piles and piles…
It’s well known that the decorated apparel industry suffers from some of the worst websites around. That goes for both suppliers and decorators alike. But the trend is changing. More and more companies are finally modernizing their online presence and more importantly are utilizing web technologies to the benefit of their business and customers. I…
Yesterday we started a new weekly feature called “Mis-Print Monday” where we celebrate the positives that can come out of the worst of circumstances. Today we start “Tee-Riffic Tuesday”, where we share a feel-good success story… aaaah. I’ll start it off with one straight from the heart of yours truly: Last spring the Marketing Director…
A big shoutout to Mike Parker of The Brand Design Co. (Claremore, OK) for submitting these photos showing successful dye migration mitigation. The top photo shows a print utilizing two base layers of Rutland Super Poly White which, while formulated for printing on 100% polyester, was not enough to block the dye migration on this very difficult substrate.…
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TBT – This appeared almost exactly one year ago. Marty Bailey (left) is the CMO of American Apparel. He’s the man behind the scenes there. He is a big part of their success and also in how they treat their workers. (It is simple, he said once, “respect everyone.”) I asked him about ten years…
