Marshall Atkinson’s blog has some good tips on hiring for screenprinting. I particularly like his idea of hiring for the right attitude and then training for the skills. I have a couple simple additions. – Don’t hire people to unload or catch only, if they can’t load don’t permanently hire them. An eye for quality…
There is no such thing as a perfect ink mixing system (or even a really good mixing system). Formulas are often inaccurate by several shades (yes, I’ve experienced this consistently across several mixing systems and it is not for lack of a high-end scale). So what do you do when you know a color will…
I just love simple machines. This heat transfer machine for putting on labels is fast, accurate and safe. We have done hundreds of thousands of transfer labels with it. – You need two hands to make it come down (a green button on each side) so you can’t get your hands caught under the stamper…
Here’s a great article and video by the WSJ on finding the perfect t-shirt. Enjoy…
I talked to my good friend and great sports mind Mike Manning this morning. He said he loved that the Royals won the wild card play-off game in a walk-off 12th inning comeback. “Even with all those ex-Sox guys on the A’s?” I asked. “We’ve got tons of inventory in Royal and we had nothing…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
