Jesse Martinez, of Matsui, explains the differences between various water-based inks and the printing techniques that are achievable. Get insight into the major requirements for integrating water-based inks into a production workflow…
Hey, the Mets, Royals, Blue Jays, Cubs and Dodgers all win in the baseball play-offs and your shirt distributors run out of Royal Blue t-shirts for a month. Maybe Taylor Swift is seen in a video that goes viral and she is wearing a pink Dickies work shirt and you then can’t get one for…
This is my kind of fighting back, making hilarious fun while screwing with bad guys. Basically folks have fooled bots that troll twitter for ideas that people want made into shirts. The results are hilarious and subversive. Check out my new favorite blog (well, besides inkkitchen.com 😉 waxy.org which is by Andy Baio . Reading…
Michelle Moxley, of M&R Companies, presents: Money-Ball Screen Printing Rigorous statistical analysis was used by the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball franchise to assemble a competitive team simply by taking a radical, yet sophisticated approach to analyzing players that traditional scouts had labeled as flawed. So, what does baseball have to do with screen printing? In…
Tony Palmer, of Palmprint & MHM, draws on 30 years of direct experience with water-based printing to deliver practical advice for efficient and effective production…
Dave Makin, of SAATI, discusses screen-making fundamentals for water-based printing…
KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Noted by the US Navy in 1960, this is an engineering principle used from mechanical to software applications. I’ll keep it simple today. Safety procedures and devices that are not simple, that are complicated, are pretty useless in my experience. The person that follows some very elaborate safety scheme or…
Danny Gruninger, of Denver Print House, discusses the joys and headaches of water-based print production…
The Washington Post this morning has an article about how Amazon aids and abets thieves in selling counterfeit merchandise. This is rampant in the t-shirt world as well. I regularly have to police all the many many sites selling shirts that have bootlegs of even my non-profit and charitable organization clients. Printers have to get…
WB/CAMP was an event like no other; great people, great fun, and so much to learn! We will soon start publishing a full series of talks and interviews, but for now, the highlights… WB/CAMP was made possible by a generous group of sponsors and participating companies… Bella+Canvas Douthitt GSF Green Galaxy Ink Kitchen M&R MHM…
