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Multi-Color Foil: A Clever Trick

We recently pulled off a multi-color foil without an in-line foil setup.  How you ask?  A manual press, a super hot flash, and a teflon coated screen.  I think you get the idea.

(Near) Misprint Monday: First Print Approval

It doesn’t happen very often but when it does I always ask myself the same question, “how did we all miss this?”.  A typo, right in front of your face goes unnoticed by all involved parties: designer, end-user, distributor, and printer.  It is only caught moments before production is set to commence during a “first print…

Pawtucket Film Festival Shirts Through the Years

I have been producing the Pawtucket Film Festival for 15 years and we are in the midst of the 15th this weekend. Of course we have to have a new t-shirt every year. Here are about half of them on display.

A Nice Thought for Friday…

I thought this was a nice saying to start the weekend.  Rutland Discharge White Plus, 20″ x 20″ jumbo print on a 28″ x 28″ 100% cotton, J. Crew Bandana.  Happy Friday.

Sometimes I Love T-shirts

Keri Ambrosino, Judy Winters and I combined to make this year’s Pawtucket Film Festival shirt. Of course there was some help from the former Soviet Union in the mix. There are millions of reasons to be horrified by the policies of the former Soviet Union, but they did stop Hitler and they did produce some of…

Todrick Hall, New Model Customer

Interesting story here developed over a couple days at Mirror Image. Todrick Hall called and needed shirts in a hurry. He of the over 40 million views on Youtube. He loves the Wizard of Oz and has the ink to prove it on his arm (though I neglected to get a photo of that.) He’s…

Zombies!

I love making fun of big corporations, so its nice to see that parody still can exist in our system. Here’s an article saying that t-shirts saying Zombies Eat Flesh that look like Subway Eat Fresh might have some legal ground to stand on.  

TBT: Hatful of Hollow

I have a small collection of personal shirts which I have retired from my active wardrobe but have retained for nostalgic purposes.  This “The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow” tee is my favorite.  It was given to me as a hand-me-down Christmas gift in 1992 by my big sister’s ex-boyfriend.  He had purchased the shirt in…

Web Wednesday: Why T-Shirts Matter

I came across this blog post from Adam Nash’s blog today.  The post dates back to 2010 but is no less relevant today.  As a contract printer in Northern California we depend very much on tech companies and young startups understanding “why t-shirts matter”.

Art for Shirts is Not Art for Everything

All too often a customer insists that their image on their shirts should match their billboards, signs, posters, table tents, magazine adverts, etc. Farm Aid and the artist for their logo Kathy Keller did a great job of creating a logo, but having variations for web, poster, tickets, and importantly for us shirts. Putting a…

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