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DTG or Direct to Garment Printing
Monday, 4 Aug, 2008 – 21:06 | 2 Comments
DTG or Direct to Garment Printing

Direct to garment printing or DTG as it is sometimes known, is ever so slowly emerging as a viable alternative to screen printing

Silk Screen Stencils
Sunday, 27 Jul, 2008 – 21:27 | 3 Comments
Silk Screen Stencils

Good stencils are key to screen printing, getting all the variables correct for each T shirt printing job is essential. With plastisol inks it has always been about finer mesh counts, T shirt printing using …

Sunflowers and Space ships
Thursday, 24 Jul, 2008 – 20:27 | One Comment
Sunflowers and Space ships

Lucy Brown continues to investigate the relationships between Kangaroos, chickens, pink clouds and space ships. The sunflowers are doing well this year, fighting off sustained attacks from slugs during the wet weather, as shown above. …

Earth Positive T Shirts
Saturday, 19 Jul, 2008 – 14:36 | One Comment
Earth Positive T Shirts

While some T shirt suppliersĀ  suprise us with mid year price increases, others, namely Earth Positive look like closing the price gap on the non organic brands. As many companies start passing on rising fuel …

Chicken Strike
Wednesday, 16 Jul, 2008 – 19:31 | No Comment
Chicken Strike

The chicken strike is over. We are still uncertain as to why, but for the past week we have had no eggs. We looked everywhere for new laying spots, but found nothing. We don’t think …

Custom Surfboards
Saturday, 12 Jul, 2008 – 13:30 | No Comment
Custom Surfboards

With the current weather and surf situation set to continue a little retail therapy could be required, Empire are creating custom surfboards that take a different path. We like the look of their shorter boards. …

Summer colours
Tuesday, 8 Jul, 2008 – 20:51 | No Comment
Summer colours

A breath of fresh air. In contrast to the weather we are having at the moment, some bright and sunny T shirt colours are going through the workshops this week. Screen Printing in water based …

Organic T shirt printing
Tuesday, 1 Jul, 2008 – 20:38 | No Comment
Organic T shirt printing

It is turning into another very busy month at Advertees, and the blog is being neglected, we are seeing some really nice jobs going out of the door unrecorded as we pull out all the …

Coarse screens and half tones
Thursday, 19 Jun, 2008 – 0:18 | 7 Comments
Coarse screens and half tones

It is pretty standard practice in screen printing to use very fine screens where a half tone is required, but unfortunately fine screens and water based inks do not work well together. So what do …

Green gofors
Monday, 9 Jun, 2008 – 20:16 | No Comment
Green gofors

“Thanks for the T shirts

Green GoFors go Global!

Just to keep you updated – the green GoFors are a group of Cornwall College students who are studying responsible tourism and are keen …