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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 …

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 …

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 …

Metallic inks, screen printing
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 10:13 | One Comment
Metallic inks, screen printing

More metallic inks are added to the our range, we are currently experimenting with new binders and pastes from Grafco. Such was the response to our new gold ink solutions, we are now taking a …

Large and oversize T shirt designs
Saturday, 24 Jan, 2009 – 12:37 | 5 Comments
Large and oversize T shirt designs

For any design up to 14×16 inches most screen printers will have no problems or restrictions, however, all over T shirt designs and large T shirt designs can be problematic.

More Cheerleaders T shirts
Thursday, 15 Jan, 2009 – 16:03 | No Comment
More Cheerleaders T shirts

In the space of a couple of months we have printed two cheerleading T shirt designs, this is up on the previous 30 years, in which time we printed absolutely zero. We are interested to …

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 …

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