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Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory
Thursday, 1 Oct, 2009 – 22:30 | No Comment
Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory

Prog Metal Band Enochian Theory recently supplied a very challenging design to us. We immediately thought the design would be suited to the waterbased bleaching method known as discharge. The distinctive artwork was created by …

Epson 4880 as imagesetter?
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 20:20 | No Comment
Epson 4880 as imagesetter?

Years of  printing excellent ultra black film on our epson 3000 lead us to believe a similar size, brand spanking new, epson printer would do the same job or an even a better one, but …

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 …

Butt or Trap? Spot colours.
Monday, 27 Apr, 2009 – 17:36 | 4 Comments
Butt or Trap? Spot colours.

This is first thing we think about when separating your design for screen printing.

Butt or trap registration? What are they?

T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.
Monday, 20 Apr, 2009 – 18:28 | No Comment
T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.

Every now and then we come across T-shirt prints which have all the qualities we like, water based printing is a must, good design for screen print is another plus.

T shirts which are organic, or …

Simulated process separation printed with waterbased ink
Monday, 6 Apr, 2009 – 17:26 | 3 Comments
Simulated process separation printed with waterbased ink

Simulated process separations were our choice for this T-shirt design, the subtle tones required for the egg were not suited to the index process. We find simulated process separations are a little more time consuming …

T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone
Saturday, 28 Mar, 2009 – 15:43 | 2 Comments
T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone

Gradients require a little thinking about when screen printing. Moire patterns are tricky to avoid, many printers have their own rule of thumb calculations to decide on meshes, the most common are 3.5 or 4 …

Sucker Punch
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 10:44 | No Comment
Sucker Punch

This T shirt design by Murkin uses 6 colours and is printed at our maximum proportions of 14×16. We prefer to print slightly under these dimensions especially when using half tones, but will make exceptions …

Our web of life T-shirt
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 1:12 | No Comment
Our web of life T-shirt

Delivery of a new gas dryer has held things up a little this week, but all being well we should be up and running again by the weekend. Once this oven is fired up we …