Entries from January 2010

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

A Real Emergency

I just returned on a red-eye from selling our contract printing at the PPAI show in Las Vegas. I was awakened from sleeping this afternoon by a call from the mother of a classmate of one of my kids. She was trying to find 500 orange t-shirts for doctors to wear in Haiti, they will [...]

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Mother of Invention, Fun with nylon and sticks and stones

I would rather be writing about the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa and all that, than thinking about nylon.
We have always avoided printing on nylon, but I’m learning to embrace it. Nylon shrinks when you heat it and ink doesn’t really want to adhere to it and nobody technical gives you any consistent information, other [...]