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…
HIrsch and SPSI are representing Kornit, who make the best Digital Direct to Garment (DTG) presses. They also both represent MHM who make the best screen printing presses. Now there is a pretty amazing cooperative effort that probably only MHM and Kornit could pull off successfully. They have come out with the Paradigm II as a cooperative…
MHM has a new oval press at the Hirsch booth at the Long Beach ISS show and it is absolutely kick ass. It is the safest press I’ve seen, since each platen goes around the press like a little race car with its own little motor. The result is no belts, no chain rotating the press…
