We printed this multicolor discharge print on the inside of the garment through a low mesh count and with a tremendous amount of squeegee pressure. As a result the ink saturates the substrate and bleeds clear through to the other side. What an easy way to take a clean spot color print and create a…
This week’s Throwback Thursday post– Our business of slinging ink is a sleazy one. The rag trade tends to the dishonest, the penny pinching, and the unethical. It has been mused that it came from the fact that screen printers historically plied their trade printing license plates in prison. I don’t buy that explanation, as…
Perhaps it’s the tasteful and appropriate use of discharge inks, maybe it’s the organic cotton blank by our friends at Econscious, or it could just be that the Pogues are such a great band. I don’t know, but sometimes it all just comes together and you end up with the perfect print.
We get a lot of questions, from both customers and printers, about printing over seams, off hems, over zippers (zippers to be covered in a future post). “can you do it?”, “how do you do it?”, “how do you maintain an even ink deposit?”. Based on these questions and personally witnessing some really bad work…
This is a post that I first did a couple years ago about a disastrous problem called ghosting. Here’s our throwback Thursday version. Ghosting is a bit subtle or is going on hidden to the eye under the printed shirts as you stack them. If you don’t watch it you will have piles and piles…
A big shoutout to Mike Parker of The Brand Design Co. (Claremore, OK) for submitting these photos showing successful dye migration mitigation. The top photo shows a print utilizing two base layers of Rutland Super Poly White which, while formulated for printing on 100% polyester, was not enough to block the dye migration on this very difficult substrate.…
Mirror Image makes and prints an ink for t-shirts that is organic and so safe you can eat it.
