Home » Archive by Category

Articles in screen printing

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 …

5 reasons a screen printer should not be without water.
Thursday, 8 Jan, 2009 – 20:08 | 3 Comments
5 reasons a screen printer should not be without water.

Iced up pipes bringĀ  our workshops to a virtual stand still this week

Photography by Tony Plant

Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 – 13:14 | 5 Comments
Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings

Somebody sends us their artwork that they would like printed out onto T shirts.
How is it done?
Follow me into the studio…
We get artwork in a whole variety of forms from finalised vector graphics to a …

I Love Cornwall T shirt
Thursday, 18 Dec, 2008 – 13:58 | One Comment
I Love Cornwall T shirt

The most simple T shirt designs are often the most effective, I love Kernow T shirts are a good example of this. A timeless design that utilises White T shirts, simple printing in two colours, …

Discharge printing textiles and T-shirts
Wednesday, 17 Dec, 2008 – 17:30 | 2 Comments
Discharge printing textiles and T-shirts

Discharge screen printing is one water based solution for light prints on dark clothing or textiles. It ticks the environmental printing boxes, but it is not without it’s limitations. Firstly we would not use this …

Printing detail on a pique knit polo shirt
Monday, 15 Dec, 2008 – 17:02 | No Comment
Printing detail on a pique knit polo shirt

A pique knit polo can present problems on very detailed prints

Frenzy in the ball pool
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 10:09 | 2 Comments
Frenzy in the ball pool

This T shirt design from Chris Lanyon speaks for itself.

Fair trade hoodies
Tuesday, 2 Dec, 2008 – 20:06 | 4 Comments
Fair trade hoodies

Om Padma of Cornwall produce a nice line in Yoga tops, a print run of fairly traded hoodies printed using waterbased ink. The brightly coloured hoodies are printed using an opaque water based screen printing …

Cheap T-shirt printing can be good
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 18:09 | One Comment
Cheap T-shirt printing can be good

Making money go further is likely to become a necessity in the very near future for many businesses

All over T shirt printing
Sunday, 23 Nov, 2008 – 20:05 | 6 Comments
All over T shirt printing

One request we recieve on a regular basis is for all over T-shirt printing. The T shirts below are what we would call over sized, not an all over print!

To acheive an all over T …

The Cheerleading T Shirt
Thursday, 20 Nov, 2008 – 9:05 | 7 Comments
The Cheerleading T Shirt

It does not often happen, we think we have printed T shirts for nearly every kind of club or sport imaginable over the course of 30 years

London to Darwin Overland
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 23:08 | No Comment
London to Darwin Overland

Odyssey Overland are embarking on another epic journey to Darwin from London in the Spring of 2009. It looks like the trip of a lifetime if you have 26 weeks to spare.