Vacord has a Twitter now
9 November, 2008 – 10:51 pmI always thought that Twitter was dumb, but I was reading an article in Wired magazine that made Twittering sound like a good idea. I started one as a creative outlet, just to be silly, then a friend with whom I was having coffee said that I should use it as a Vacord Twitter. I said Nahh… but we talked about it further, and I decided that I could indeed use it, to talk about what I’m doing, print-wise, say that I have new blog posts, and link to pictures of what’s going on. Twitter is basically micro-blogging. And it’s not that bad.
If you’d like to follow my work via Twitter, check out Vacord Screen Printing’s Twitter.
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Choosing A Mesh Color
To paraphrase Henry Ford, screen printers used to be able to get mesh in any color they wanted, as long as it was white. Then, about 25 years ago, the industry began bumping up the limitations of its tools as it strived to get higher-detailed images on T-shirts.
When screens were exposed, they would have gain or hazing, or halftones couldn’t be clearly resolved. Part of the problem was that printers were using strictly white mesh. When screens were exposed, light hit the fiber and traveled along it, causing perfectly round dots to become fuzzy. By using gold, yellow or orange mesh, printers can eliminate this light scattering.
Which color should you use? I generally recommend purchasing gold or yellow fabric, even if you’re not having issues with light scattering. This way, you have one less potential problem to worry about. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s yellow, gold, or orange — as long as it’s not white.
By Tim on Dec 14, 2008