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Otter surfboards | Organic Earth Positive T-shirts | Water-based screen print
Saturday, 25 Jun, 2011 – 13:20 | No Comment
Otter surfboards | Organic Earth Positive T-shirts | Water-based screen print

Otter surfboards are an innovative, responsible and exciting young business who have committed themselves to a totally sustainable product. Based in Chapel Porth Cornwall, Otter Surfboards Produce hand crafted wooden surfboards from sustainable timber sources in Cornwall and …

Mr Chuffiewuffie full colour organic T shirt prints
Saturday, 28 May, 2011 – 18:18 | No Comment
Mr Chuffiewuffie full colour organic T shirt prints

Some projects are simply a pleasure to work on, and Mr Chuffiewuffie and friends was certainly one of those jobs Advertees enjoy. These illustrations by Rob Wills seem to spread a little bit of happiness …

Port Eliot 2010 T shirt.
Thursday, 22 Jul, 2010 – 20:15 | No Comment
Port Eliot 2010 T shirt.

This weekend Port Eliot Festival plays host to a huge variety of creative talent, and as usual there seems to be something of interest for everyone.

Unfortunately for Advertees a consequence of this event is that …

organic Tshirt, waterbased printing for our web of life
Wednesday, 23 Jun, 2010 – 14:17 | No Comment
organic Tshirt, waterbased printing for our web of life

Water based screen printing inks were used to print this T shirt for our web of life, an obvious choice for these scientists who are presently researching the effects of an alien moth on our …

Good single colour Screen printing deals
Saturday, 8 May, 2010 – 17:38 | No Comment
Good single colour Screen printing deals

As previously mentioned in this blog short runs of screen printed T shirts are best kept to one or two ink colours if cost is a consideration. Each design colour in screen printing requires its …

Are Retensionable frames worth the time and money??
Tuesday, 13 Apr, 2010 – 20:24 | No Comment
Are Retensionable frames worth the time and money??

Possibly the only reasons any screen printer can give for not introducing retensionable frames to their workshop would be the costs. And all the time involved in maintaining mesh tensions. Having used Newman frames for …

Advertees spring clean complete
Tuesday, 23 Mar, 2010 – 19:19 | No Comment
Advertees spring clean complete

February into March is always spent making preparations for the busy season, and this year has been a good one in terms of getting things done. Machines have been fully overhauled replacement valves, o-rings and …

Growing interest in water based screen printing.
Thursday, 18 Feb, 2010 – 20:41 | 2 Comments
Growing interest in water based screen printing.

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 …

Newly installed T-shirt printing machine
Saturday, 26 Sep, 2009 – 12:06 | No Comment
Newly installed T-shirt printing machine

It is never a good time to install large machinery, and the interruption in production certainly makes the busier periods a time to avoid. When you add the removal of a wall to the scenario …

Discharge T shirt print using index separations
Thursday, 2 Jul, 2009 – 19:43 | No Comment
Discharge T shirt print using index separations

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 …

Text only T shirt designs
Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009 – 18:40 | No Comment
Text only T shirt designs

Designing a T shirt using text only requires more skill than many might think, if aesthetics are important to you then there are plenty of things you need to consider, one of the most important …

Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009 – 20:49 | One Comment
Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts

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 …