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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Om Padma of Cornwall produce a nice line in Yoga tops, a print run of fairly traded hoodies printed using waterbased ink. The brightly coloured hoodies are printed using an opaque water based screen printing …
Sunday
If it’s Sunday, it must be the Isla del Sol. We board a swift little vessel and motor off to the lake’s largest island.
Copa, Copacabana. Nowhere near Havana
Jealous?
On the way a flock of a dozen …
Christmas is now getting closer, and as it does the food industry goes into overdrive.
Saturday
We’re making the most of the weekend left in Bolivia, so we’ve signed up for a tour. First stop, the extremely ancient ruined city of Tihuanaco (or Tiwanaku), about one and a half hours out …
One request we recieve on a regular basis is for all over T-shirt printing. The T shirt below is from design by Humans
To acheive an all over T shirt print, a particular kind of screen …
It does not often happen, we think we have printed T shirts for nearly every kind of club or sport imaginable over the course of 30 years
Friday
Just a half day at school. We form a big circle so that Henry can wish us farewell. We are presented with gifts of work that the kids have done for us.
Sue goes around sharing …
Odyssey Overland are embarking on another epic journey to Darwin from London in the Spring of 2009. It looks like the trip of a lifetime if you have 26 weeks to spare.
Thursday
Treated to a little play by the Kindergarten children. Basically anti-litter, pro-recycling, and very good fun!
Into the garden area to see how things work there and then an explanation of the school’s composting structure.
We were …
As a fundraising idea for schools direct to garment printed T shirts are never going to compete with the fundraising tea towel
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 …