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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 …

CMYK T Shirt Print-Screen Printing one rupee
Wednesday, 28 Apr, 2010 – 20:51 | 4 Comments
CMYK T Shirt Print-Screen Printing one rupee

Screen printing CMYK on white T shirts can produce results equal to that of any DTG printer, so at what point does it become impractical to create screens and put it on a digital printer? …

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 …

Easiway: a quick method of reclaiming silk screens after use
Wednesday, 24 Feb, 2010 – 19:29 | No Comment
Easiway: a quick method of reclaiming silk screens after use

Reclaiming screens in a busy work shop can become a real problem for t-shirt printers, we have tried many methods and products over the years, most are unpleasant to work with, expensive and time consuming.
Easiway …

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 …

Spring clean and mesh tensions.
Monday, 4 May, 2009 – 13:56 | 2 Comments
Spring clean and mesh tensions.

Space is always an issue for a busy screen printing shop, the more space you have the better. It is also essential to use your space efficiently. So with this in mind we have finally …

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?

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 …