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Back to screen printing hoodies
Monday, 22 Sep, 2008 – 20:37 | 5 Comments
Back to screen printing hoodies

Well it seems that is it for the summer, and it has been confirmed for us in a switch to printing hoodies.

And while we at Advertees are busy using our gold waterbased inks to print …

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. …

Halftone Dots and Screenprinting
Monday, 15 Sep, 2008 – 17:36 | 7 Comments
Halftone Dots and Screenprinting

A user guide to picking the best halftones
by David Foster. Positivity Ltd.

Screenprinters have a bewildering array of halftone dots to choose from when producing their imagesetter films, we look at why you might like to …

Screen Printing Gold Ink
Friday, 12 Sep, 2008 – 18:25 | 11 Comments
Screen Printing Gold Ink

One of the advantages of screen printing over Direct to garment printing is the variety of special effect inks that are available (although direct to garment and screen printing combinations are possible), printing T shirts …

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. …

5 colour index separation and waterbased ink
Sunday, 7 Sep, 2008 – 18:57 | 3 Comments
5 colour index separation and waterbased ink

Although indexing is not recommended for a subtle gradient, it does eliminate the problem of moire

Index Separation Method for Screen Printing
Monday, 25 Aug, 2008 – 20:02 | 15 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.

Zest series introduce more designs
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 16:54 | One Comment
Zest series introduce more designs

Zest series of St Ives Cornwall introduce new designs to the range

Designing for Screen printing and bling trainers
Tuesday, 19 Aug, 2008 – 20:19 | 2 Comments
Designing for Screen printing and bling trainers

We are so used to designing for screen print now, solid images two and three colour, it seems so ingrained in our way of approaching T shirt graphics, a very effective visual language has been …