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Metallic inks, screen printing
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 10:13 | One Comment
Metallic inks, screen printing

More metallic inks are added to the our range, we are currently experimenting with new binders and pastes from Grafco. Such was the response to our new gold ink solutions, we are now taking a …

6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials
Sunday, 25 Jan, 2009 – 23:53 | 3 Comments
6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials

Here is a list of great sites for vector resources and tutorials. Regardless of your illustrating or design experience, there should be something in these vector sites for you. Each site generally contains a different …

Large and oversize T shirt designs
Saturday, 24 Jan, 2009 – 12:37 | 5 Comments
Large and oversize T shirt designs

For any design up to 14×16 inches most screen printers will have no problems or restrictions, however, all over T shirt designs and large T shirt designs can be problematic.

More Cheerleaders T shirts
Thursday, 15 Jan, 2009 – 16:03 | No Comment
More Cheerleaders T shirts

In the space of a couple of months we have printed two cheerleading T shirt designs, this is up on the previous 30 years, in which time we printed absolutely zero. We are interested to …

T- shirt design:Creating simplified artwork from a photograph
Wednesday, 14 Jan, 2009 – 14:35 | 2 Comments
T- shirt design:Creating simplified artwork from a photograph

So you’ve got this idea about taking a favourite snap and converting it to something that can be printed in a minimum of  colours, eh?
Plus you’d like to give the subject of your photo a …

Fluorescent T Shirt Printing
Tuesday, 13 Jan, 2009 – 11:49 | 6 Comments
Fluorescent T Shirt Printing

Now classed as a retro look, fluorescent T Shirt Printing is synonymous with the 80’s. It is not a regular customer request, but now and again it crops up. The key to a good quality …

5 reasons a screen printer should not be without water.
Thursday, 8 Jan, 2009 – 20:08 | 3 Comments
5 reasons a screen printer should not be without water.

Iced up pipes bring  our workshops to a virtual stand still this week

Photography by Tony Plant

Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 – 13:14 | 5 Comments
Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings

Somebody sends us their artwork that they would like printed out onto T shirts.
How is it done?
Follow me into the studio…
We get artwork in a whole variety of forms from finalised vector graphics to a …

2008 a good year for T shirt printing
Monday, 5 Jan, 2009 – 18:18 | 2 Comments
2008 a good year for T shirt printing

A late thank you to all our customers of 2008, growth has exceeded all expectations and feed back on new inks and products has been a great boost for our team.