I’ve posted about ghosting before, but here’s a quick refresher as I have been asked three times in the past week to help a shop with ghosting problems. A ghost image is an image from a shirt that appears faintly on another shirt (or rarely but sometimes on the back of the same shirt, or around the…
My buddy, Ms. Bonnie Kilgore once said, “Show me somebody that don’t make no mistakes, and I’ll show you somebody that ain’t doin’ nothin’.” Mistakes are going to happen despite our best efforts to avoid them. We had a four person brain freeze last week. There in plain sight is how the shirts were supposed…
El esmalte transparente normal de uñas funciona muy bien pata las tintas de descarga a base de agua. El esmalte se mantiene y la tinta no traspasa, además se recupera bien y no es caro. Otro consejo que no seguimos en este caso es no imprimir tantas cosas en las películas así no hay que…
Make sure you know what you are matching when a customer has many other printed items. The file you are working from may have color indications, but if the customer has already printed brochures (well, maybe back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the earth…,) billboards, beer cans, boxes, … whatever, you had better fall…
Lon Winters is a solid dude. He is one of the best guys in what you all know is sometimes a skeezy business that we find ourselves in. He’s a fun guy to talk about screenprinting with and he’s been known to throw down a cocktail or two or… Here is a photo of him…
For blocking out screens for printing water-based discharge inks, regular old generic clear nail polish works very well. It holds up and that aggressive discharge ink doesn’t get through, and also importantly it reclaims fine. It isn’t expensive either. Another trick we did not follow in this situation, don’t print out so much crap on…
I nearly forgot just how gratifying it is to pull a squeegee and produce prints by hand. After nearly 10 years without a manual press we finally caved.
Out Of Print Clothing is a line of tees and products based on the imagery of classic and/or out of print book covers. I love this idea. The designs are absolutely stunning (the printing looks good too but of course it’s easy to make printing look good when you are working with great artwork. Here’s a…
We were recently audited by our workers comp carrier. The inspector seemed to be most concerned about whether or not we have a “lockout-tag-out” center and written policy. We do. During similar inspections performed by OSHA and other outside parties this always seems to be the area of highest concern. Why? Granted, automated presses are…
We recently ran a pre-production sample print on this 100% cotton fleece boxer. Our client was most concerned about achieving a clean print over the seam. Done. However, we received a complaint that the ink was cracking at the point of the seam. We didn’t have any of Rutland’s new Endurance Plus ink on hand…
