It seems almost every day somebody asks another dye migration question. In this case we received a garment dyed shirt with very bad dye migration into the white and light ink colors. We test printed one of those same problematic garments with a Rutland poly white underprint and cotton white overprint got great results. With…
Quick post today. I have many inquiries lately about how to print a garment dyed shirt. Test the particular shirt and color, but many of them print well with discharge ink and that accentuates the softness of the shirts. Most colors most of the time print well with any good cotton white ink. If you…
Rick and I are on a tour of North Carolina and South Carolina this week. Today we visited the Rutland Group. We’ve both been loyal Rutland ink customers for years and I must say, this being my first visit, it was really something to finally see where the magic happens. Though our hosts were more than…
SGIA 2014. Did I see anything new? Well not that much but that doesn’t mean at all that it was not worth attending. I saw friends. I talked to new vendors. I had time to talk face-to-face with established vendors. I got to talk shop with other owners. I got to see what is trending and…
We featured Bill Mooney’s websites two weeks ago. Here are a few good photos from him and some good history in his own words. I started screenprinting with a Speedball kit as well, so this story is dear to me. Bill in is own words: “Yes, Tannis Root is our tour merchandising and screenprinting company…
We recently ran a pre-production sample print on this 100% cotton fleece boxer. Our client was most concerned about achieving a clean print over the seam. Done. However, we received a complaint that the ink was cracking at the point of the seam. We didn’t have any of Rutland’s new Endurance Plus ink on hand…
A veces tras imprimir, el tinte de la camiseta llega a la tinta en el tiempo que tarda en llegar a la cinta del horno. Esa preciosa tinta blanca en una camiseta roja se vuelve rosa. Dices, ¡vaya! y piensas algo para prevenirlo. Una combinación de técnicas (bajo flasheado y curado) y de materiales (tintas…
Silicone ink is like insurance, you hate it but sometimes you just have to have it. As with many things in life, you have to take the good with the bad with silicone ink. It is expensive to buy the ink, roughly three times the cost of plastisol inks. However, ink isn’t the main part…
We took some ink just sitting on the shelf (295C) and made it into an ink we needed to print today (539C) We test drove the Rutland recycling system within their DMX software and it worked out great. This is no cure for getting rid of all the ink we all have sitting around, but…
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…
