Archive for September, 2008
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
I was talking to Matt at Westix Equipment & Supply, saying that a lot of my 20"x24" aluminum frames, some of which I had gotten from Westix, were warped and did not lay flat. This can cause problems during printing as the areas that are slightly higher will lay down ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Months ago, I was sitting by the front door of my shop killing time by reading Impressions Magazine, which you should subscribe to if you don't already. Anyway, there was an ad for ergonomic squeegees called "EZ Squeegee" made by a company called Screen Technique. I was definitely interested, but ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
I had some red-pigmented discharge left from a previous experiment and I wanted to do another very small print run with it to see if it was still any good. It was about 12 days old.
I went to my first Krav Maga class the day before and really enjoyed it. ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I haven't tried this yet, but Matt at Westix told me that some printers will mix up a batch of pigmented discharge and adjust the pigmentation until they get the exact color they want, then they will have a lot to save. They must add the agent to a small ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
The other day I had a pretty big order for me. It was 260 shirts, orange and white discharge on the front and orange discharge on the back of dark chocolate Gildan g200 shirts. My average order size for August was 57 pieces and that's about average for the year ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
I had time to try a couple of experiments last Friday. I had received a new red pigment, Matsui "Neo Red MFB," from Westix, one that is better for mixing a red-pigmented discharge. I've always searched for a good way to do red on black, and this experiment actually turned ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Someone emailed me that other day to ask how to separate the colors in Photoshop in a multiple-color design that she wanted to screen print. I went over the process of how I do it, and I will go over it here as well.
1- Make sure that all your colors ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
So, I've never found a fantastic way to do red on black shirts. The very first time I was using speedball ink (this was two years ago when I was very new to this craft) and I just kept doing more and more layers of red to try to get ...
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