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…
Andre Agassi wasn’t kidding when when he said “image is everything”. It was true for both Canon cameras and the man himself (oh those feathery locks). In all seriousness though, the phrase truly does apply to screen-printing. This shirt is one that I include in presentations, simply to show our customers why we use so many…
Some times you slip up a little and sometimes you really blow it. We recently blew it on a simple print (which was of course printed on very expensive garments). The job was rejected by our customer because text elements “disappeared”. Upon internal investigation I was told that the first print “looked great” and yet…
In 2005 while trying to help raise money for Katrina disaster relief, we came up with this mosaic style design using a high density base giving the tiles some height and overprinting the various colors on top. We’ve pulled this style out of the archives with a remix for WMBR which is a community radio…
