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Some projects are simply a pleasure to work on, and Mr Chuffiewuffie and friends was certainly one of those jobs Advertees enjoy. These illustrations by Rob Wills seem to spread a little bit of happiness wherever they appear, watching the T shirts leave on the way to there new home was like waving goodbye to a close friend.
Screen printing full colour half toned images is not easy, and printing them with water based inks is harder still. One of the easiest ways to overcome some of the difficulties involved is to select a lighter coloured T shirt to print on (an environmentally friendly decision too) this enables the use of true process printing, which is ideally suited to the transparent nature of water based inks. Using only cyan, magenta, yellow and black a full spectrum of colours can be achieved.
Mr Chuffiewuffie and friends have been printed on organic natural coloured T shirts, a perfect canvas for the full colour illustrations. It allows us to use the most environmentally sound inks with no bleaching additives. Also no extra heat sources are required between printed colours (as needed when using opaque water based inks) thus a very energy efficient choice too. This means Mr Chuffiewuffie, Dozer, Flipper, Hop Hop and Hazel have succeeded in achieving minimum environmental impact.
All things Chuffiewuffie can be found at http://www.mrchuffiewuffie.com
Advertees love screen printing with water based inks. Complex full colour designs on light coloured organic T shirts present no problems at all to our experienced printers, and give very little cause for concern on an environmental front. We fully understand the need for diverse range and choice of T shirt colours, but we cannot stress enough the environmental benefits of choosing a lighter coloured T shirt for your screen printed designs.
A big change for Advertees in 2011, New website is very near completion with more emphasis than ever on T shirt printing, and all inclusive deals. Lots of new products have become available this year, …
This weekend Port Eliot Festival plays host to a huge variety of creative talent, and as usual there seems to be something of interest for everyone.
Unfortunately for Advertees a consequence of this event is that …
Water based screen printing inks were used to print this T shirt for our web of life, an obvious choice for these scientists who are presently researching the effects of an alien moth on our …
When screen printing Mixed Martial Arts T-shirts soft prints are nearly always a requirement. Screen printed foil T-shirts are currently a common request.
So we are now offering foils using a phthalate free adhesive, when used …
Screen printing CMYK on white T shirts can produce results equal to that of any DTG printer, so at what point does it become impractical to create screens and put it on a digital printer? …
Finally the launch of the new Advertees web site has taken place, still plenty of alterations to be made and information to be added, but the new prices are now official. It has been some …
Reclaiming screens in a busy work shop can become a real problem for t-shirt printers, we have tried many methods and products over the years, most are unpleasant to work with, expensive and time consuming.
Easiway …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The arrival of our new 8 colour automatic 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 …
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 …
Discharge screen printing is one water based solution for light prints on dark clothing or textiles. It ticks the environmental printing boxes, but it is not without it’s limitations. Firstly we would not use this …
A big change for Advertees in 2011, New website is very near completion with more emphasis than ever on T shirt printing, and all inclusive deals. Lots of new products have become available this year, …
The arrival of our new 8 colour automatic 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 …
When screen printing Mixed Martial Arts T-shirts soft prints are nearly always a requirement. Screen printed foil T-shirts are currently a common request.
So we are now offering foils using a phthalate free adhesive, when used …
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 …
Some projects are simply a pleasure to work on, and Mr Chuffiewuffie and friends was certainly one of those jobs Advertees enjoy. These illustrations by Rob Wills seem to spread a little bit of happiness …
There are several ways of achieving this, including transfer printing and direct to garment (DTG) printing. The most commonly used techniques for screen printing however, are index and simulated process. The following is an insight into index separations.
We have taken this photo of a handsome rooster and opened it in Adobe Photoshop.
This weekend Port Eliot Festival plays host to a huge variety of creative talent, and as usual there seems to be something of interest for everyone.
Unfortunately for Advertees a consequence of this event is that …
