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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 …

Newly installed T-shirt printing machine
Saturday, 26 Sep, 2009 – 12:06 | No Comment
Newly installed T-shirt printing machine

It is never a good time to install large machinery, and the interruption in production certainly makes the busier periods a time to avoid. When you add the removal of a wall to the scenario …

Making way for new auto.
Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009 – 17:42 | No Comment
Making way for new auto.

The arrival of our second auto is getting closer, but preparation for the machines delivery is nigh on impossible with our current workload.

The new machine will bring much needed added capacity, and make better use …

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 …

Text only T shirt designs
Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009 – 18:40 | No Comment
Text only T shirt designs

Designing a T shirt using text only requires more skill than many might think, if aesthetics are important to you then there are plenty of things you need to consider, one of the most important …

Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009 – 20:49 | One Comment
Red discharge print, earth positive T shirts

Obtaining a good red when discharge printing is difficult, bright reds are not easily achieved. We have had good results Screen printing earth positive T shirts with discharge inks, no difficult batches as yet, and …

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 …

Sucker Punch
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 10:44 | No Comment
Sucker Punch

This T shirt design by Murkin uses 6 colours and is printed at our maximum proportions of 14×16. We prefer to print slightly under these dimensions especially when using half tones, but will make exceptions …

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 …

Our web of life T-shirt
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 1:12 | No Comment
Our web of life T-shirt

Delivery of a new gas dryer has held things up a little this week, but all being well we should be up and running again by the weekend. Once this oven is fired up we …