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Halftone Dots and Screenprinting
Monday, 15 Sep, 2008 – 17:36 | 9 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 …

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

Pit Pilot Magazine Cover
Thursday, 4 Sep, 2008 – 17:11 | No Comment
Pit Pilot Magazine Cover

A break from T-shirt printing for one moment to congratulate Tony and Troy on a fantastic cover shot. It seems a while ago now but finally some pictures from the Surftwisted Indo trip are starting …

Water-based T shirt printing | Part2
Wednesday, 3 Sep, 2008 – 18:26 | 2 Comments
Water-based T shirt printing | Part2

Having outlined a few of the main differences between plastic and water-based inks in a previous article we can now take a look at some more factors which can help us make decisions about what …

Sunflower
Wednesday, 3 Sep, 2008 – 0:14 | No Comment
Sunflower

Despite all the rain, general gloom  and the end of summer things have remained busy, so a the second installment to the epic waterbased articles project goes on hold, and in its place a late …

Waterbased T Shirt Printing | Part1
Friday, 29 Aug, 2008 – 14:38 | 4 Comments
Waterbased T Shirt Printing | Part1

Hopefully we can outline some of the benefits of T shirt printing in water based inks, and explore some of the possible reasons many screen printing companies are so reluctant to advertise or use these inks. Here are just a few benefits we feel waterbased inks have to offer.

* Environmentally sound non spirit based formulas
* Breath-ability on large prints
* Soft and sometimes imperceptible hand
* Very long lasting print
* Diverse range of special effects

Lizard MCC represent in france
Tuesday, 26 Aug, 2008 – 17:04 | No Comment
Lizard MCC represent in france

Lizard MCC splashed all over the french papers. Although the cornish bikers are not entirely certain of what is written they are sure it is good for international relations. If you want to read about …

Cool Earth Update
Thursday, 21 Aug, 2008 – 10:06 | No Comment
Cool Earth Update

‘At the invitation of the Ashaninka Tribe, Cool Earth is now to working to protect the western frontier in Peru from destruction.’
On Sunday 10th February, the Ashaninka community met with loggers who were presenting …

Zest series introduce more designs
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 16:54 | One Comment
Zest series introduce more designs

Zest series of St Ives Cornwall introduce new designs to the range