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Re-Label, and Plenty of It

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,…

Misprint Monday – Sometimes Don’t Screenprint

Sometimes the best way to avoid a mis-print is to not print. Screenprinting is what we mostly do at my company and in this case screenprinting is what the customer wanted. However, sometimes you just have to face that you can’t do something. This artwork has tiny type and it was not going to reproduce…

Step By Step

Explaining Full Color printing methods, whether it be Simulated Process, CMYK, Index or otherwise, to the uninitiated can be a struggle.  We decided it would be easier to just show them…

Don’t Listen to ‘Em

In the last several months we have been printing with discharge inks at a higher level than ever before.  This is partially a trend and partially driven internally.  This trend also corresponds with a trend toward specialty substrates, i.e.: tri-blends, fashion fleece, etc.  Obviously, this complicates things.  You can be reasonably sure of the results you…

Web Wednesday – F’n Know-it-alls

Best explanation I have seen yet about why Tom and I wear “Know-It-All” Ink Kitchen gear. Inquiring minds always know more than they figure they do. Do you know Jack? Apparently you don’t know Jack. Apparently nobody knows what the hell they are doing. “There’s an old puzzle that philosophers like to ponder: how could…

Cool Packaging

I always appreciate presentation of a shirt, sometimes it is better than the shirt print itself. Mac’s Seafood in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod had some nice shirts, and the presentation was better. They used bags for mussels and put the shirts in those.

Misprint Monday – Yellow Journalism

If you misprint something or if it is a close call, you have to get the info to the customer asap. For me, I don’t want them approving something that is clearly wrong, and I don’t want the customer to make judgements without all the information. Usually we don’t worry that much about yellow dye…

Arte para las camisetas, no arte para todo

Demasiado a menudo un cliente insiste en que la imagen de sus camisetas debe de estar a conjunto con los carteles publicitarios, señales, posters, carpas, anuncios revistas, etc. Farm Aid y el artista que creó el logo, Kathy Keller hicieron un trabajo estupendo, especialmente creando variaciones para web, pósters, tickets y lo más importante para…

Hiring

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…

Don’t Let This Happen

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…

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