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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 …

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 …

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 …

Simulated process separation printed with waterbased ink
Monday, 6 Apr, 2009 – 17:26 | 4 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 …

Gas dryer for water based screen printing
Thursday, 19 Mar, 2009 – 20:22 | No Comment
Gas dryer for water based screen printing

Our new, or not quite so new gas dryer, is finally up and running. It is not pretty, and took far more time than expected to install (Finding a gas fitter for commercial appliances in …

Printing Hoodies: 6 colour spot separation
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 19:55 | 4 Comments
Printing Hoodies: 6 colour spot separation

A nice colourful design came through this week for Celefest. Initially this job was more than 6 colours, a little reworking made the design more affordable but had little effect on the impact of the …

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 …

Fluorescent T Shirt Printing
Tuesday, 13 Jan, 2009 – 11:49 | 6 Comments
Fluorescent T Shirt Printing

Now classed as a retro look, fluorescent T Shirt Printing is synonymous with the 80′s. It is not a regular customer request, but now and again it crops up. The key to a good quality …

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 …

T shirt design and cad cut vinyl
Saturday, 1 Nov, 2008 – 12:23 | 3 Comments
T shirt design and cad cut vinyl

Advertees always try to find the best process for the designs we are given, for one off designs and sampling we are using the direct to garment printing more and more. Screen printing is always …

6 colour T shirt print, index separation
Friday, 31 Oct, 2008 – 18:08 | 8 Comments
6 colour T shirt print, index separation

This T shirt design does not appear to contain a great number of colours, but we found it required six colours to make the job work well. We used index separations at 200dpi and took …

Twisted T-shirts, elusive exclusive merchandise
Sunday, 26 Oct, 2008 – 19:21 | One Comment
Twisted T-shirts, elusive exclusive merchandise

Suftwisted are in the process of a radical change, an interesting site is threatening to emerge from twisted towers in the very near future. The killer site is going to take bevel, emboss and shadow …