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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
Iced up pipes bring our workshops to a virtual stand still this week
Photography by Tony Plant
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 …
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.
The most simple T shirt designs are often the most effective, I love Kernow T shirts are a good example of this. A timeless design that utilises White T shirts, simple printing in two colours, …
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 pique knit polo can present problems on very detailed prints
Monday
beach babes
Driving back to La Paz today but one more thing about Copacabana.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …