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Metallic inks, screen printing
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 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 …

6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials
Sunday, 25 Jan, 2009 – 23:53 | 3 Comments
6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials

Here is a list of great sites for vector resources and tutorials. Regardless of your illustrating or design experience, there should be something in these vector sites for you. Each site generally contains a different …

Large and oversize T shirt designs
Saturday, 24 Jan, 2009 – 12:37 | 6 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.

Cheap T-shirt printing can be good
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 18:09 | One Comment
Cheap T-shirt printing can be good

Making money go further is likely to become a necessity in the very near future for many businesses

All over T shirt printing
Sunday, 23 Nov, 2008 – 20:05 | 6 Comments
All over T shirt printing

One request we recieve on a regular basis is for all over T-shirt printing. The T shirts below are what we would call over sized, not an all over print!

To acheive an all over T …

Cornwall film festival
Friday, 7 Nov, 2008 – 13:57 | No Comment
Cornwall film festival

Yesterday saw the start of the Cornwall film Festival (I intended to write this post before the event) running from the 6th to the 9th of November and showcases Cornwalls talented film makers, as well …

Need a logo designer? Or just advice?
Wednesday, 8 Oct, 2008 – 21:00 | 11 Comments
Need a logo designer? Or just advice?

When you walk down the street it is easy to spot and recognize a good logo

Some favourite art and design sites
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 9:56 | One Comment
Some favourite art and design sites

We`re all looking for inspiration. This is a small collection of some of our frequented haunts when things have run a little dry.
Design by Humans.
Slaterock

This is set up as a T shirt market place. …

Design and typography for screen printing
Wednesday, 10 Sep, 2008 – 9:50 | One Comment
Design and typography for screen printing

For the use of screen printing, it’s a general rule that – design wise – boldness and simplicity work. You’re usually trying to convey a message quickly and clearly on your T shirt.
The same goes …

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. …

Index Separation Method for Screen Printing
Monday, 25 Aug, 2008 – 20:02 | 18 Comments
Index Separation Method for Screen Printing

There are several ways of achieving this, including transfer printing and direct to garment (DTG) printing. The most commonly used techniques for screen printing however, are index and simulated process. The following is an insight into index separations.

We have taken this photo of a handsome rooster and opened it in Adobe Photoshop.

DTG printers
Saturday, 9 Aug, 2008 – 12:23 | One Comment
DTG printers

DTG printers are very good at what they do, this design from studio radio is a perfect example of what has never been achievable by transfer processes