Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Everyone's talking green lately, which is good. How green are your printing practices? I'm not referring to the argument of which is more environmentally friendly, plastisol or waterbased inks, but other things in your shop, like your use of disposable items. I'll just talk about a couple small changes I've ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
This week was very nice. The first half of the month was awful. I speculate that the economic uncertainty caused people to hold tightly on their money and not order things like custom shirts, but once the uncertainty continued but people realized it's not vastly changing their lives, they decided ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Hey, gross, what? I heard the term "booger" at an ISS show. A booger is a little piece of lint or fuzz or tiny shirt thread that gets stuck on the bottom of your screen, in the open stencil area. They're bad because they will leave a little spot in ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
What the hell is squeegee durometer? Blade stiffness!
Squeegees have two parts basically; the handle, which is wooden or metal of some sort, and the blade, which is a rubber-like substance with varying degrees of flex. You'll have to forgive me here, as I don't know exactly what the blades are ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
There are two main colors of mesh; yellow and white. There also is orange, which is not that common, and only used in high mesh counts where yellow would be just as appropriate. I know of no real benefit to using orange mesh instead of yellow.
The main working difference between ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
On the t-shirt forums screen printing section, there is often the question of which is better, laser or inkjet printers for printing out films. The general consensus, which I agree with, is that a high-end inkjet printer is better. I have a refurbished Epson Stylus Color 3000 large-format inkjet printer ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Wednesday this week I did five orders, all straight discharge. Honestly I'd be happy to only do straight discharge prints the rest of the year, as they are interesting, quick, and profitable.
Here are some pictures of my recent work (the things that are not straight discharge were done last week):
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
So my buddy Phillip at Newell Graphics sent me a couple of samples of International Coatings' new Gen4 hybrid ink, some of the white and some of the red. I needed to do red and white on black hoodies for a custom order, so I thought this would be an ...
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