Stopped by the MHM booth at SGIA. I was pretty excited to hear they will have their entry level press and their oval at Long Beach ISS. They are delivering these machines already. I had seen them in the factory but now they are full in the field. The oval is one of the coolest…
Note the beer tap in the foreground. KIWO really has the ideal booth in our industry. They have their DTS unit so you can see it working, they have their best most knowledgeable staff, and they know how to be hospitable and friendly, and of course beer helps with that. More technical posts from the…
The 2014 SGIA Expo Las Vegas begins officially today. Rick and I will be posting for the duration of the show. If you are attending and you have purchased a session package come see our panel discussion today: Session: S20: Garment Decoration Dream Team: Stump the Experts Time: Wednesday, October 22, 3:00 to 4:30 PDT…
Well, the 2014 SGIA Expo Las Vegas kicked off for me today with Golden Image Awards judging. If you are planning to attend The Expo this week take some time to see the Golden Image entries. Here’s a preview…
We got some photos today from a shirt company and they had a printer reporting that the shirts looked like crap after washing. You can see the photos at the end of this post. The ink is not cured from what I see and this is what I told them can be the causes: Undercuring can…
I just can’t stand to see an automatic press running dog slow because of a double squeegee stroke. Aside from special effects printing, water-base/discharge, the occasional quick fix on a small run, or a specialty substrate, there is rarely a legitimate need to run a double squeegee stroke. Today however, we are running a basic spot…
From our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads: As the leader of a growing company, I feel like it is necessary to be around other business owners at my level as well as mentors that can help me get to the next. Whenever I meet with a new “mentor” I always hear the question, “What…
MHM makes the best presses for printing on shirts and canvas. There, I said it. …and it feels good to be so direct. For many years I have written articles for various trade journals. In the interest of “fairness” they always make me write generically about what makes a good press and I can’t say…
The headline reads: “This Guy Cited His Christian Faith in Refusing to Make T-Shirts Advertising a Gay Pride Parade — and Now His Company Is Being Punished” You can read the article here. I have little interest in the specifics of this story but it did make me think of the inevitable point in every screen-printer’s career…
When I started my shop years ago I never would have guessed that we would do in-house re-labeling to the extent that we do today. In fact, we didn’t even touch our first re-labeling project for a few years after opening our doors. For that first project, we cut out woven tags from stock tees,…
