The Ink Kitchen

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…

Menuda noticia, la compañía Comfort Colors de Vermont es hoy parte del imperio Gildan. Barry Chouinard, emprendedor y personaje peculiar, dueño de la compañía será capaz de comprar un poco más  de sidra de manzana esta semana después de vender Comfort Colors por 100 millones de dólares al gigante Gildam.  consta que que Gildan perdió más  de…

Last year saw the unfortunate death of Robin Williams. A friend sent this photo of him to me. In the photo Robin Williams is wearing a shirt that we printed from a line we sold at the time, Ken Brown Designs. Below are a couple more celebrity sightings, both of shirts we print for my pal…

Holy Cow, Vermont company Comfort Color is now part of the Gildan empire. Entrepreneur and genuine character Barry Chouinard (owner of Comfort Colors) should be able to buy a little more apple cider this week after selling his company for $100 million to industry giant Gildan. Reported as well was that Gildan lost over $40…

It isn’t often that our first commercial screenprinting jobs are documented. Usually we get into this business in a sort sideways move. We help somebody out or make shirts for ourselves and never really think it will turn into a business. Somehow lo and behold eventually we end up finding ourselves in the business. I…

My friend Gaylen has a phrase that I go to at least a couple times a week. He says, “pigs get fed and hogs get slaughtered.” That is some good homespun wisdom. If you want customers long term, you don’t want to overcharge them. Somebody gives you fifty percent of your business and if you…

10%   That could be the article, just 10%. In thirty years of printing, once I saw 30% of a crowd at an event or congress buy shirts. That was in a perfect confluence of great positive energy and a fantastic design. Mostly I see 5 to 10% no matter how good the design is.…

We’ve been figuratively and literally snowed in for the past week. Some jackasses hacked into our site and we have had a devil of a time getting back on track.  The problem is stemming from our web hosting provider, not something targeting us specifically. Hey, it’s nice that it isn’t personal, but frustrating because we can’t…

We appear to have our hack fixed. Sorry we were gonzo. I wish we could go find the hackers and have a blanket party, but… Anyhow, we’ll be back at posting tomorrow.