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Skate T Shirt | Photoshop Tutorial | Screen Printing
Sunday, 1 May, 2011 – 12:30 | No Comment
Skate T Shirt | Photoshop Tutorial | Screen Printing

Design for screen printing is an art in itself. Textile design will always benefit from a different approach to that of paper, or web based design. Everything is possible in terms of what can be printed …

30 years of The Alarm
Sunday, 30 Jan, 2011 – 14:45 | 2 Comments
30 years of The Alarm

The Alarm are celebrating an amazing 30 busy years in 2011. In fact there is so much history here we are going to have to refer you to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alarm for all the details.
Tickets for …

Organic T shirt Printed as CMYK water based ink
Wednesday, 20 Oct, 2010 – 0:53 | No Comment
Organic T shirt Printed as CMYK water based ink

Not all requests for promotional T shirts are about improving a companies bottom line, some businesses have an ethical policy which not only covers the goods they produce and manufacture, but also extends to the …

T shirt print for Handykam.com
Thursday, 2 Sep, 2010 – 19:44 | No Comment
T shirt print for Handykam.com

It is always suprising how much activity is going on in your back garden, wildlife is busy going about its business quite often unnoticed. We have just completed some promotional T-shirts for Handykam who offer  …

Water based screen print for Hayle Pioneerium
Tuesday, 24 Aug, 2010 – 16:18 | No Comment
Water based screen print for Hayle Pioneerium

A promotional T shirt printed for the Pioneerium which is is bringing cinema to Hayle for the first time in 30 years. In addition to screening the latest blockbusters, the screen machine will show short …

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 …

Screen Printing foil on T-shirts
Thursday, 15 Apr, 2010 – 20:39 | No Comment
Screen Printing foil on T-shirts

Advertees will finally introduce foil to the range of screen printing techniques on offer, just a few more trial runs using different screen meshes and pressing times and we are good to go. This is …

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 …

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 …

Formaldehyde Free discharge printing on T-shirts
Saturday, 18 Apr, 2009 – 15:01 | One Comment
Formaldehyde Free discharge printing on T-shirts

Screen printing light colours on to dark T shirts is unlikely to become environmentally friendly any time soon (our recommendation to anyone who has a strict environmental policy is to print on to lighter T-shirts …