The Ink Kitchen

Today a Google image search for “Christmas T-Shirts” produced some “nice” results…

The other day I received these promotional Nano samples from our friends at Hanes.  I was impressed, for once, to receive decorated garment samples from a manufacturer which actually incorporated tasteful design and quality printing.  Well done Hanes, well done.

One of my running buddies sent me a text the day before a big marathon we both ran yesterday.  In the message he asked if we had printed the shirts for the event, knowing of course that we do this type of work.  I replied that we did not print the shirts for this high-profile…

Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls makes a statement with a t-shirt last night. That is a t-shirt that is going to be seen millions of times. Simple and to the point like a good t-shirt should be.

Our translator is in NYC and can’t translate a post for Sunday because she is in NY.  There are massive rallies going on in NYC tonight. I ran into this in my twitter feed tonight about the rallies. The ACLU is giving out free shirts at the rallies protesting the police killing of Eric Garner…

I love simple yet effective printing techniques.  Overprinting semi-opaque inks creates a level of transparency which reveals a percentage of the underlying color.  It’s simple, but not as easy as it seems.  A surprising amount of consideration went in to determining print order, flash positions, ink formulations, etc., to pull-off the effect.

A good customer recently sent me a quote request for a large volume program.  Due to the size of the program, pressure from the “end user”, and because it was “commodity printing”. I was told that the job was going out for bid and that I needed to be very competitive.  Being put in a bid situation is…

We’re pretty high-tech around here (well, at least by textile screen-printing standards).  I’d love to say that our screen coating methodology follows suit and show off pics or video of a bitchin’ auto-coater, but I can’t.  When it comes to screen coating, we still do it the old school way.  It’s not that I don’t…

Wearables Nov/Dec issue showcase their Top Decorator competition.  Check it out.

The man himself, Mark Diehl, President of Douthitt Corp, is spending a few days with us this week.  The purpose of Mark’s visit is to do some in-depth training on CTS maintenance and repair work with a couple of our key team members.  When Mark arrived this morning and I made the introductions, his first…