TechCrunch reported on Teespring’s latest acquisition of London-based Fabrily. The acquisition allows the company, which is already growing at a staggering rate, to offer it’s services globally. PS: In case you didn’t know it, Teespring was established in 2011 (!)
Resident “Know-It-All” Tom Davenport is featured in the Winter ’15 SGIA Journal: Garment Edition The article takes an in-depth look at the proper pairing of substrate and print method, an all-too-often ignored aspect of garment decoration. If you are an SGIA member and received the Journal, we think the read will be well worth your time. If…
What do you do with all those mis-prints and/or defects? Most shops just turn them into test prints and then into rags, right? What’s the matter with that?… As a contract decorator we have a responsibility to our customers to handle their product in a professional and accountable manner whether it’s before, during, or post production.…
To “discharge” print a shirt is to use “discharge” ink and get the dye in the shirt to be neutralized. You add a catalyst to a specific type of ink and in the presence of heat and water the dye basically goes away. Only cotton discharges and not all cotton dyes discharge. We test shirts…
There is an interesting article in the New York Times on the post tragedy selling of things, particularly t-shirts In particular. They focus on the terrorist killings of the newspaper staff in Paris and all the shirts and other items for sale related to that. Folks want to express themselves on an issue, and that statement might…
Time Magazine talking tees. Note: teespring.com is a source of info.
The Patriots have been good to us, remarkably six AFC Championships, and we hope four Super Bowls. That can be a lot of shirts printed in the slow New England month of February. The history for us has been up and down. There was the ecstatic night in 2001 when the Patriots pulled out the amazing…
We’ll do a longer post after the show, but check out some environmental products if you are still at the Long Beach ISS show: American Apparel has baby shirts that are organic and other organic items as well. Econscious has organic shirts, hats and my favoite of their products, really nice organic hoodies. Rutland Ink…
Hey, don’t forget to have fun in Long Beach. Our Mexican food in Boston is terrible, I’m so missing my yearly fix in Long Beach. In that photo is my good friend John Lynch from Lynka, a company he owns in Poland. That is Polish vodka in his hand. He is a smart man. He’s…
