A few comments of my own after Tom’s longer post on squeegees yesterday. – Squeegees are probably the most underrated item in almost every shop I have visited. You can overcomes many problems in a shop, but it is almost impossible to do good printing with bad squeegees. – Don’t trust the company that makes…
In honor of my post on American Apparel, here is my TBT post from my old blog, musing on procrastination and on equipment. It was inspired by head manufacturing dude at American Apparel Marty Bailey. Fact: We have one of the most reliable presses ever built, an MHM SP4000. The SP3000’s and SP4000’s we have…
Printers have a bad habit of forgetting to heat their pallets before starting a print run. The underbase does not gel sufficiently and ink sticks to the back of the subsequent screens, chaos ensues. Start wiping screens. The result is that the first half dozen or more prints lack opacity and are grossly undersaturated, enough…
We recently had an order returned due to placement issues. The printing was “crooked and off-center”. Upon review of the returned goods we were able to ascertain the real issue… Torquing occurs in the manufacturing process and is most pronounced on non-tubular garments constructed from lightweight, stretchy fabrics (in this case a tri-blend). The difficulty…
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…
