The Samuel Adams Boston Brewery gift shop was looking to have some shirts done with a vintage football feel. We were to use a very simple distressed “84” as that is the year they were founded. They loved the garment as well as the distressed numbers and wanted to brand the shirt in a way…
Tom and I have been praised more than a few times for admitting mistakes we made in our shops on mis-prints, and the like. This is a tougher admission I make to you today. I had someone embezzle from my business. They stole $80,000 from my business and it happened at a time when…
Yes, we all brought in the New Year with our friends and family several days ago, but for most of us today is the real start of 2015. Though I know it is wise to plan for the coming year well in advance, I always seem to struggle with actually doing so. For me, as with most printers,…
Pallet adhesive is pretty gross. It inevitably makes some kind of mess, which can be anything from a mild irritant to so bad that it wrecks your press. However, it is a necessary evil. The purpose is to hold the shirt down on the press so that it doesn’t move or lift. Any moving or…
There are definitely some tricks to winning a t-shirt printing contest. Here are a couple: I got most excited though at some Golden Image awards and Impressions awards that we won at Mirror Image where we literally just grabbed a shirt off a production run to submit, and then we got judged by our peers that…
Our customer had already paid to have this logo digitized and insisted that we use their DST file. We rarely except DST files from our customers. This is why… Needless to say, we did not proceed with production, opting instead to digitize in-house and provide our customer with a quality product to meet their expectation. When…
While so many of us are consumed with the technical side of our craft it’s easy to lose sight of the business side. If you haven’t noticed, the industry is changing. Checkout InkMonk
It seems almost every day somebody asks another dye migration question. In this case we received a garment dyed shirt with very bad dye migration into the white and light ink colors. We test printed one of those same problematic garments with a Rutland poly white underprint and cotton white overprint got great results. With…
It seems like every day now I see a protest shirt on somebody in the news. Honestly, I think there is plenty to speak out about and shirts have been and always will be a way to get your message across so in fact it is not really surprising. The first shirt I helped somebody…
