Hoy en día hay una variedad de palés disponibles para imprimir sobre y alrededor de las cremalleras. Hace seis años o más no había tantas opciones así que opté por una solución casera que todavía usamos y consistía en un tablero cuya parte superior era de espuma…
A variety of specialty pallets are available today for printing over and/or around zippers. Six+ years ago the options were not quite what they are today and I chose a DIY approach which resulted in a foam-top pallet design which we still utilize today…
Soft plastisol inks can be a viable alternative to water base inks (and even discharge inks depending on the design, graphic and garment) with respect to visual and tactile characteristics. Soft plastisol inks are also easier to print, especially when printing high resolution halftones through high mesh counts. The key to soft plastisol ink is…
Mike T is not just a great artist, he has done some of the most exemplary illustrations for t-shirts that I have ever seen. This print of Biggie is also one of our best screenprints, but it all started with great artwork. The piece is so good that a marketing company put this in Digital…
Cuando “The Know-It-All” (el sabiondo) debutó en ISS Long Beach el mes pasado recibimos una gran cantidad de elogios y preguntas sobre nuestros hilos personalizados. Esto es lo que hicimos … Creamos cuatro piezas únicas diseñadas por Rick y Tom e impresas y cosidas por ” Motion Textile” (Movimiento Textil). The “Know-It-All Hoody” (N280 NANO FULL-ZIP HOOD) The “I.K. Cardigan” (District Made DM315) The “KnowTee” (4980…
TBT Hail Thursday! Old post on depth in screenprinting. Digital is all well and good, but screen printing is deep man. Screen printing has depth. This is a great shirt to illustrate the point. Notice the grey area, that is curable base, no pigment. You can also use very low pigment percentages up to 15%…
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…
