I found the best scientific explanation of the white gold vs blue black dress debate which has been raging on social media on the Wired Magazine site. It mainly has to do with the context and adjustments your eyes make. This is just an extreme case where it falls right on the boundary of interpretation. If…
Fibrillation is defined as “the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.” I’m talking about that type of fibrillation in this post, but many a screenprinter has felt like they are going to have a heart attack over the type of fibrillation that happens to t-shirts. Fibrillation in screenprinting is when…
HanesBrands is purchasing Knights Apparel, a company which mostly serves the college bookstore market. It sounds like a good deal for HanesBrands and I can’t see how it will have any effect on the average screen printer or embroidery company. You can read about it in the Wall Street Journal or here is the HanesBrands press release…
Florida mother sends badly bruised child to school wearing T-shirt proclaiming ‘good woopin’ This disturbing article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday. Truly a sad t-shirt. Sorry to bum you out.
Rick’s post yesterday on printing tote bags made me think of a tote print we ran a few years ago, the Dolly Parton “Tote of Many Colors”. The text is a play on Dolly’s hit song “Coat of Many Colors”. This print is one of my favorites for a number of reasons: 1. It’s a great design…
There are a wide variety of types of canvas bags out there in the world. They are all waiting to be decorated by the screenprinter. There are specifications of all the fabrics in terms of weight, weave, etc. In my many years of buying canvas totes and even working directly with companies that are manufacturing…
If you’re like me, you dread the thought of the slow season. For most printers the first quarter of the year is painfully slow. Your hard earned gains from the prior year seem to evaporate and you hope you can hang in there to see the busy season return. You are dying to get to the…
I’ve been looking closely at shirts for 43 years (I just posted about that.) Someone may say a design is cute, interesting, funny, awesome or any positive attribute and the first thing I see instead is that it is printed (in order of how often it occurs) out of registration, too low, with too much…
Ran into these guys at POOLTRADESHOW (MAGIC). A few LA bartenders decide to start a print shop/clothing line and AKA/Industry Bastards is born…
I’m here again at the SGIA Innovation Zone in Sourcing at MAGIC, part of MAGIC Market Week. While the show begins officially tomorrow, Sourcing is live today and SGIA has, yet again, brought together an “A” team of decorators and technologies. I’ll be posting tomorrow and Wednesday from the show but for now here’s a look at the Innovation…
