I met Andy MacDougal for the first time at the SGIA this year. He clearly is a talented screenprinter, a good guy and a funny guy. He has a cool website called Squeegeeville with among other things a good basic screenprinting book and simple equipment, in particular a great simple vacuum table set up for printing posters. If…
Nick Alexander the merch guy for Eagles of Death Metal was killed in the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan theater. I know many of you out there are involved in merch for bands. It could have been one of us, one of our friends, and Nick is someone’s friend, someone’s colleague, someone’s son. It…
You work hard with a customer and months later if you are lucky you get to see the fruits of your labor (pun intended.) All the pieces we worked on for the new Angry Orchard Innovation Cider House were on display during their opening week. The stuff really looked good in the store and it…
My mind is boggled by companies that don’t even test their products before selling them to screenprinters and embroiderers. If you can’t hoop the left chest, or a material scorches your fancy lightweight fabric at any temperature, what good is it to us? On the other hand, San Mar has a great guy Mark Bailey…
I’ve shared my thoughts about screen coating on The Ink Kitchen. Saati seems to have incorporated both precision and ruggedness into their Pro Coat automatic screen-coater. I am re-evaluating my position.
Often people ask when I see them at shows, “What’s New?” I usually point out that you have to check out the solid steady vendors who often don’t have anything new. Screenprinting is called that for a reason, you need screens! If you are going with rigid frames, the solid solid rigid frame company is…
Photo of Ray Miles and I. Ray has a shop in Jamaica. I have corresponded with him for many years and finally got to meet him. The best part of our industry trade shows is meeting up with other printers, meeting new ones, seeing ones you already know. Lord knows our friends, families and employees…
One legend is on the left in that photo. Artem Nadirashvili has done some of the most outlandishly innovative screenprints on t-shirts that I have ever seen. His shop midigroup is in Moscow in Russian. He is also a jazz fan and all around totally interesting dude. Next to him is French screenprinter Michel Caza who…
I saw some cool stuff at SGIA today. This is first of a few posts from here in Atlanta. Saati has a point source light that is LED, super fast exposure, constant exposure, energy saving, and what I like, super simple design. You can even control it from your phone via bluetooth if the control…
Just wrapped up a very busy day-1 of the show. Rick’s going to be sharing a few points of interest shortly, but here’s a nice look at the show floor from above…
