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Screen Printing of Water based inks
Sunday, 31 May, 2009 – 11:41 | 6 Comments
Screen Printing of Water based inks

May has been a very busy month for us, this blog has only seen one post at the beginning of this month, as printing T shirts has been required from waking to sleeping. Our new …

T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.
Monday, 20 Apr, 2009 – 18:28 | No Comment
T-shirts that incorporate everything we like, The Present.

Every now and then we come across T-shirt prints which have all the qualities we like, water-based printing is a must, good design for screen print is another plus.

T shirts which are organic, or at …

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 …

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 …

T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone
Saturday, 28 Mar, 2009 – 15:43 | 2 Comments
T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone

Gradients require a little thinking about when screen printing. Moire patterns are tricky to avoid, many printers have their own rule of thumb calculations to decide on meshes, the most common are 3.5 or 4 …

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 …

New coal Tshirt
Monday, 2 Mar, 2009 – 15:12 | 5 Comments
New coal Tshirt

Environmentally sound T shirt printing was the request from TANC. So we supplied the Earth Positive T shirt, printed using an opaque water based ink. Find out more about open cast mines and plans for …

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 | 6 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 …