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Easiway: a quick method of reclaiming silk screens after use
Wednesday, 24 Feb, 2010 – 19:29 | No Comment
Easiway: a quick method of reclaiming silk screens after use

Reclaiming screens in a busy work shop can become a real problem for screen printers, we have tried many methods and products over the years, most are unpleasant to work with, expensive and time consuming.
Easiway …

Growing interest in water based screen printing.
Thursday, 18 Feb, 2010 – 20:41 | 2 Comments
Growing interest in water based screen printing.

Slowly there is a growing awareness to  the advantages of  a water based screen print. Customers are also showing a certain amount of understanding regards its limitations, and prefer to be flexible in their requirements …

2009 Cornwall Film Festival
Sunday, 18 Oct, 2009 – 13:45 | One Comment
2009 Cornwall Film Festival

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 …

Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory
Thursday, 1 Oct, 2009 – 22:30 | No Comment
Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory

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 …

Epson 4880 as imagesetter?
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 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
Saturday, 26 Sep, 2009 – 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.
Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009 – 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
Thursday, 2 Jul, 2009 – 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
Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009 – 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
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009 – 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 …