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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 …

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 …

direct to garment fundraiser
Thursday, 13 Nov, 2008 – 21:08 | 2 Comments
direct to garment fundraiser

As a fundraising idea for schools direct to garment printed T shirts are never going to compete with the fundraising tea towel

Glow in the dark T shirt print
Monday, 10 Nov, 2008 – 18:41 | No Comment
Glow in the dark T shirt print

Glow in the dark ink is a combination of a pigment (looking like a strange planet in the picture above) and a binder, either plastic or water-based binders can be used.

Cornwall film festival
Friday, 7 Nov, 2008 – 13:57 | No Comment
Cornwall film festival

Yesterday saw the start of the Cornwall film Festival (I intended to write this post before the event) running from the 6th to the 9th of November and showcases Cornwalls talented film makers, as well …

6 colour T shirt print, index separation
Friday, 31 Oct, 2008 – 18:08 | 8 Comments
6 colour T shirt print, index separation

This T shirt design does not appear to contain a great number of colours, but we found it required six colours to make the job work well. We used index separations at 200dpi and took …