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Gold Fever, and a little silver too
Monday, 29 Sep, 2008 – 20:42 | 3 Comments
Gold Fever, and a little silver too

We have observed an interesting surge in the demand for gold and silver prints, It is the trend of the moment, in our world at least, a sudden interest in gold t shirt printing. We …

Fundraising Tea Towels for Schools
Thursday, 25 Sep, 2008 – 17:02 | 2 Comments
Fundraising Tea Towels for Schools

It’s that time of year again! The Tea Towel art packs are starting to go out again as the schools gear up for their christmas fundraising activities.

We are carefully monitoring the number of art packs …

Back to screen printing hoodies
Monday, 22 Sep, 2008 – 20:37 | 5 Comments
Back to screen printing hoodies

Well it seems that is it for the summer, and it has been confirmed for us in a switch to printing hoodies.

And while we at Advertees are busy using our gold waterbased inks to print …

Some favourite art and design sites
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 9:56 | One Comment
Some favourite art and design sites

We`re all looking for inspiration. This is a small collection of some of our frequented haunts when things have run a little dry.
Design by Humans.
Slaterock

This is set up as a T shirt market place. …

Halftone Dots and Screenprinting
Monday, 15 Sep, 2008 – 17:36 | 7 Comments
Halftone Dots and Screenprinting

A user guide to picking the best halftones
by David Foster. Positivity Ltd.

Screenprinters have a bewildering array of halftone dots to choose from when producing their imagesetter films, we look at why you might like to …

Screen Printing Gold Ink
Friday, 12 Sep, 2008 – 18:25 | 11 Comments
Screen Printing Gold Ink

One of the advantages of screen printing over Direct to garment printing is the variety of special effect inks that are available (although direct to garment and screen printing combinations are possible), printing T shirts …

A full Hen House
Thursday, 11 Sep, 2008 – 20:52 | No Comment
A full Hen House

The best feature of this blog layout is perhaps the ability to write about things outside of T-shirt printing without it confusing people when they arrive, all the t-shirt relevant articles stay in the top …

Design and typography for screen printing
Wednesday, 10 Sep, 2008 – 9:50 | One Comment
Design and typography for screen printing

For the use of screen printing, it’s a general rule that – design wise – boldness and simplicity work. You’re usually trying to convey a message quickly and clearly on your T shirt.
The same goes …

Moving wordpress to a new server
Tuesday, 9 Sep, 2008 – 20:28 | One Comment
Moving wordpress to a new server

Amazingly enough and with virtually no hiccups I somehow managed to move the blog to a new server and upgrade to wordpress 2.6. The wordpress helpfiles at http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress covered the PHP admin, database advice etc. …

5 colour index separation and waterbased ink
Sunday, 7 Sep, 2008 – 18:57 | 3 Comments
5 colour index separation and waterbased ink

Although indexing is not recommended for a subtle gradient, it does eliminate the problem of moire