Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
I've posted about Matsui's metallic binder, which is by far the best metallic ink I've ever used. By itself, it's like a great silver ink, being opaque enough on black with just one layer. I need to see if they have a gold version. You can add pigments to ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
I did these the other day, actually for lifeguards in Venice Beach. Cool print. I did it through a 180 mesh count with Matsui DSPS discharge on brown American Apparel 2001. 180 isn't too high of a mesh count for small runs. I think I did 55 or so, can't ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
So, someone contacted me about doing 100 shirts, but they didn't have any artwork. What they did have was an old shirt with the design on it. I told the customer that I would be able to place the print of the shirt on my scanner and get the artwork ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
I got the idea for this post while looking at the search terms that people used to get to vacord.com. If you're a printer with a website for your services, see if you can get statistics for your domain if you don't already. It's great to have them, as it ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I did a run of 33 2color Vacord promotional shirts, doing both colors as discharge with pigment added as printing. I had pretty good results for the most part, but there were some problems, all of which were due to bleeding except for a shirt with dummy marks (ink smears ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
A while ago, Westix sent me a sample quart of Matsui's Metallic Binder, a silver waterbased ink. I hadn't had the chance to try it, nor had I had a design to use it for, until today. I designed a LIVE FREE OR DIE shirt and printed out ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A simple thing that I do is to take a magic marker and write the mesh count on both long sides of the screen on the outside of the aluminum frame. This allows me to see what the mesh count is when the screens are stacked, whether it means they ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
In the last post, I talked about a long print run where the screens started to fail, allowing ink to pass through where it was not supposed to. This happened both during the 5color run and the 1color run. For the back print, the 1color, I had not hardened the ...
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