T shirt print for Handycam.com
Thu, 2/09/10 – 19:44 | No Comment

It is always suprising how much activity is going on in your back garden, wildlife is busy going about its business quite often unnoticed. We have just completed some promotional T-shirts for Handykam who offer  …

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New coal Tshirt
Mon, 2/03/09 – 15:12 | 5 Comments
New coal Tshirt

Environmentally sound T shirt printing was the request from TANC. So we supplied the Earth Positive T shirt, printed using an opaque water based ink. Find out more about open cast mines and plans for …

Newman Roller Frames
Sat, 28/02/09 – 13:51 | 2 Comments
Newman Roller Frames

The recent purchase of some used Newman Roller Frames from MHM has forced us into adjusting our whole approach to screen making.

The Newman screens have been a massive investment in terms of time, but the …

Tony Plant scores another cover shot
Tue, 17/02/09 – 17:50 | One Comment
Tony Plant scores another cover shot

Another cover shot from surftwisted photographer Tony Plant. Taken in the dead of winter on the south coast in freezing temperatures, Tonys commitment to photography from the water paid off. Take a look at the …

Chickens in the snow
Tue, 3/02/09 – 10:46 | 3 Comments
Chickens in the snow

How often do we see this in Cornwall? It will be a slow start to the day with our staff scattered about Cornwalls minor roads. Our admin has decided to take a walk into work …

Metallic inks, screen printing
Thu, 29/01/09 – 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 …

Large and oversize T shirt designs
Sat, 24/01/09 – 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
Thu, 15/01/09 – 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
Wed, 14/01/09 – 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 …

5 reasons a screen printer should not be without water.
Thu, 8/01/09 – 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
Wed, 7/01/09 – 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 …