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Not blogging much, but printing a whole lot.

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

I'm just not writing much ever on this blog, but I do want to say we are still definitely around and printing tshirts and doing other fun stuff! I'm busy with the business and Krav Maga and Jiu Jitsu, and I tweet a whole lot but rarely write on this ...

The life and demise of the Vacord Screen Printing Van

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

We bought a 1997 Ford Aerostar van in 2007. It was the cargo van style, black, with a red Ferrari decal on each side, 263000 miles. I used it to go to Alpha Shirt distributor and get blanks shirts once a week with it, as well as traveling around town, ...

Some pictures

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

I haven't posted in a year, but here are some pictures of recent work! I'd like to start putting things on here again, at least just pictures with a brief description. I hadn't logged in since last May and I have 5679 comments waiting for approval, so if you need ...

Recent printing.

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

I've done a lot of shirts since the last time I was actively blogging. Here are some of the more interesting ones. Discharge with neon pink pigment! White discharge, black ink, green discharge on Gildan Military Green g200. Bright discharge clear on Cardinal Red Gildan g200, which discharges extremely well. Normal red discharges ...

Printing gray under discharge white

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I had an order this week for a Jiu Jitsu club at a school in Philadelphia. The customer provided a mockup which had gray and white, with the gray showing in some places through the white. I told him I could probably replicate this in print and he said give ...

Distressing artwork and distressed printing

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Distressing is popular. If you've ever seen shirts that look like they're really old, and that the print is worn, but you know that the shirts are new or relatively new, then the artwork was probably just "distressed", which is a process to make it look cracked, old, worn out, ...

Christmas gifts, screen printed of course.

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I like to screen print gifts to give to family at Christmas time. This was the third Christmas since I've started screen printing and the gifts are a little more advanced than previous years. My father and I fly hot air balloons and he requested a balloon sweatshirt. This is Matsui ...

Best discharge red I’ve ever produced.

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Well it's been a while since I've blogged. When I first decided to start blogging I wrote a long list of topics and then continued to come up with topic ideas, but I have written about all of those by now and new ideas aren't coming to mind often.  My ...

Today’s work

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Work has been very slow, but today was good. I did three small custom orders. Slow work combined with the fact that I've pretty much covered all the topics I can think of is why I don't blog as frequently of late. First, I wanted to make a Krav Maga shirt ...

Screenprinted Vacord holiday cards

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

So this year I decided to send out some Vacord "season's greetings" cards. I went through my records and picked out good customers and clients, anyone with whom I enjoyed working or who gave a sizable order, and I sent cards to these people, along with my distributor, the people ...