Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
There has been a revolution in waterbased inks over the last few years. A printer can now do things that could not have been imaginable until recently. I had done three hour print runs before with Matsui waterbased inks, not opaques, but their spot colors, and I was amazed that ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Customers ask me what type of file is best for screen printing, and I tell them high quality Photoshop files in the actual print size, or an Illustrator or EPS file. I've been able to burn screens adequately with anything from a GIF file to a Word document or a ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
To reclaim screens (reclaim meaning remove the emulsion/stencil so that new emulsion can be applied and the screen can be reused), I use a spray hose in my utility sink and a spray bottle with a water and powdered emulsion remover mix in it. This works well at getting the ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
I've lived in Philadelphia since 2000 but I'm originally from Nashville, Tennessee. I went home this weekend. I picked up my favorite magazine, Wired, at the Philly airport and read it on the plane. There was a small article about blogging, and one blogger's tips included going completely off topic ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
My client in Alabama had a special design for me to do, and he wanted discharge printing. I was happy to oblige. It was a 2color front, 1color back, the front being an orange-pigmented discharge and white discharge, the back being just the orange-pigmented discharge.
I knew pigmenting discharge to get ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
When you mix up some discharge, you're not going to know if you mixed it properly until you print a test shirt and it comes out of the oven. In my experience I've had various results with the same brand of discharge, Matsui DSPS, and the same shirts, black Gildan ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
What do we do if the design is three colors, with there being two lighter colors and one dark color, and the dark color surrounds the lighter colors? Is there any way to make registration easier than just doing butt registration, where the colors butt up to each other perfectly? ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
I like to wrap up all my custom orders by Thursday, so that Friday is sort of a free day for me to do upkeep stuff, all the stuff that I put off sometimes because I need to be getting orders out the door. Fridays are good to do ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
A while ago, I think it was mid to late spring, I did a couple dozen American Apparel hoodies for the Philadelphia Angler Club, the guys who fish in the river that separates downtown Philadelphia from West Philadelphia. It was an easy order, a one color design done in a ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
After I finish a print run, the first thing I do is clean up. I take the goop scoops (little plastic spatulas used to take ink from containers to the screen, and stir or mix inks) and the squeegees and wash them. Then I take the screens to the trashcan ...
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