Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory
Thu, 1/10/09 – 22:30 | No Comment

Prog Metal Band Enochian Theory recently supplied a very challenging design to us. We immediately thought the design would be suited to the waterbased bleaching method known as discharge. The distinctive artwork was created by …

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2009 Cornwall Film Festival
Sun, 18/10/09 – 13:45 | One Comment

Thought it might be a good idea to write a post before the festival starts this year. The  8th Annual Cornwall Film Festival is going to deliver a huge variety of Film in just three days

Friday to Sunday, 13-15 November in Falmouth

Cornwall-film

As well as showcasing Cornish shorts, the festival will include National and international Film past and present, professional workshops and lectures.

Feature Films include the classic Eraserhead, and a south west premiere of Glorious 39 from Stephen Poliakoff, there are a number of short films on offer too, and Board shorts is taking place at the Stannary Bar Tremough for all those interested in UK surf film.

Epson 4880 as imagesetter?
Wed, 30/09/09 – 20:20 | No Comment
Epson 4880 as imagesetter?

Years of  printing excellent ultra black film on our epson 3000 lead us to believe a similar size, brand spanking new, epson printer would do the same job or an even a better one, but …

Newly installed T-shirt printing machine
Sat, 26/09/09 – 12:06 | No Comment
Newly installed T-shirt printing machine

It is never a good time to install large machinery, and the interruption in production certainly makes the busier periods a time to avoid. When you add the removal of a wall to the scenario …

Making way for new auto.
Thu, 30/07/09 – 17:42 | No Comment
Making way for new auto.

The arrival of our second auto is getting closer, but preparation for the machines delivery is nigh on impossible with our current workload.

The new machine will bring much needed added capacity, and make better use …

Discharge T shirt print using index separations
Thu, 2/07/09 – 19:43 | No Comment
Discharge T shirt print using index separations

Index separations are very fast to create and very effective with some designs, the T-shirt design below is a good example of the kind of design which works well using this process. We chose to …

Text only T shirt designs
Sat, 27/06/09 – 18:40 | No Comment
Text only T shirt designs

Designing a T shirt using text only requires more skill than many might think, if aesthetics are important to you then there are plenty of things you need to consider, one of the most important …

Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts
Fri, 26/06/09 – 20:49 | One Comment
Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts

Obtaining a good red when discharge printing is difficult, bright reds are not easily achieved. We have had good results Screen printing earth positive T shirts with discharge inks, no difficult batches as yet, and …

Screen Printing of Water based inks
Sun, 31/05/09 – 11:41 | 5 Comments
Screen Printing of Water based inks

May has been a very busy month for us, this blog has only seen one post at the beginning of this month, as printing T shirts has been required from waking to sleeping. Our new …

Spring clean and mesh tensions.
Mon, 4/05/09 – 13:56 | No Comment
Spring clean and mesh tensions.

Space is always an issue for a busy screen printing shop, the more space you have the better. It is also essential to use your space efficiently. So with this in mind we have finally …

Butt or Trap? Spot colours.
Mon, 27/04/09 – 17:36 | 4 Comments
Butt or Trap? Spot colours.

This is first thing we think about when separating your design for screen printing.

Butt or trap registration? What are they?

T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.
Mon, 20/04/09 – 18:28 | No Comment
T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.

Every now and then we come across T-shirt prints which have all the qualities we like, water based printing is a must, good design for screen print is another plus.

T shirts which are organic, or …