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Misprint Monday: Approved!

I like to usually draw from our actual mistakes. Readers seem to take some solace in my confessions, maybe making their own errors less painful to bear.   On this one I can’t mention the customer but the lesson is still a good one. We had a customer that we showed a test print to.…

Machines We Love

In the coming days I’m going to highlight machines that I love. Why do I love them? I love them because I don’t think about them. They help us get the job done of decorating shirts and just work and work and work without any thought required. These range from big to small, high initial…

Checking Out Shirt Lab

First, great that Shirt Lab picked the funnest place on earth New Orleans to have their live event, training and inspiration on business, sales and marketing in the apparel biz. The event was very well organized, fast pace without losing anyone, informational and inspirational. I have a relatively big shop and got a lot out…

Misprint Monday: Damn Lint

Lint is everywhere in our shops and we strive to keep it out of the printing process, but some shirts are terrible and some not so bad, but it really is unavoidable. Beside diligence, there are answers. When we have very long runs and particularly with very linty shirts, you can print a base screen…

Misprint Monday: Bad Magic

In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another. We do this bad magic to ourselves sometimes. I try and remind my colleagues that when there is a difficult print or new technique, your attention will focus on that and…

ქართვლის დედა and Cooperative Community

ქართვლის დედა  That is not recognizable to most Western folks, the writing is Georgian, and I don’t mean the Georgia with Jimmy Carter and lots of peanuts, I mean the former Soviet republic nestled between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus.  In Western script it is written Kartlis Deda and it is the name of…

Garment Construction from Start to Finish

Screen printing is an art but it’s also science and chemistry. The more you understand about the fabrics you’re decorating and how they interact with different types of ink, the better your end results will be. There is so much terminology- ringspun, open end, carded, combed, singles, PDFs, garment dye, pigment dye and more! We…

Gildan Reports on Second Quarter and Predicts their Future and Perhaps Our Future as Well

When one of the biggest garment companies in our industry speaks, we best listen. Gildan released their second quarter earnings report and revised their outlook for next year, which you can read in its entirety  here. I’m not a financial analyst and some of this is pretty deep, but I can tell you that basically…

Simple Systems and Tech Tools To Run A Modern Printing Business

You don’t need to spend a lot of money to systemize your business, you just need the right frameworks. In this Shop Talk Rick Roth and Stan Banks talk with Gavin StGeorges, CEO and founder of Seps.IO, about how to create systems that will allow you to grow your business in a way that lets…

Chris Blakeslee Moves to Athleta, Norm Hullinger Named Bella+Canvas President

Chris Blakeslee moves to Gap owned brand Athleta, he will take over as President and CEO. Athleta sells on-line and in retail locations and is not in the imprinted sportswear industry per se. Chris being one of the more interesting folks in our industry will be surely missed. He formerly was running Bella+Canvas and Alo…

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