We’ll have a full Ink Kitchen crew at the Long Beach ISS show next week. We’ll have our “Know-It-All” booth in full swing as we did last year. Ask us whatever you want about any form of decorating or any garment. If we don’t know the answer, we can ask one of a hundred experts we…
We have spent years experimenting with foil on shirts. Rather I should say that we produced actual jobs with different foil applications and always achieved great results. However, in almost every instance we had to do a lot of “tinkering” to get those good results. I finally feel we have dialed in on a very simple process which delivers awesome and consistent results. Here…
The Samuel Adams Boston Brewery gift shop was looking to have some shirts done with a vintage football feel. We were to use a very simple distressed “84” as that is the year they were founded. They loved the garment as well as the distressed numbers and wanted to brand the shirt in a way…
Tom and I have been praised more than a few times for admitting mistakes we made in our shops on mis-prints, and the like. This is a tougher admission I make to you today. I had someone embezzle from my business. They stole $80,000 from my business and it happened at a time when…
Yes, we all brought in the New Year with our friends and family several days ago, but for most of us today is the real start of 2015. Though I know it is wise to plan for the coming year well in advance, I always seem to struggle with actually doing so. For me, as with most printers,…
Pallet adhesive is pretty gross. It inevitably makes some kind of mess, which can be anything from a mild irritant to so bad that it wrecks your press. However, it is a necessary evil. The purpose is to hold the shirt down on the press so that it doesn’t move or lift. Any moving or…
There are definitely some tricks to winning a t-shirt printing contest. Here are a couple: I got most excited though at some Golden Image awards and Impressions awards that we won at Mirror Image where we literally just grabbed a shirt off a production run to submit, and then we got judged by our peers that…
Our customer had already paid to have this logo digitized and insisted that we use their DST file. We rarely except DST files from our customers. This is why… Needless to say, we did not proceed with production, opting instead to digitize in-house and provide our customer with a quality product to meet their expectation. When…
While so many of us are consumed with the technical side of our craft it’s easy to lose sight of the business side. If you haven’t noticed, the industry is changing. Checkout InkMonk
