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Pantone Books Not Accurate?
Apparel Decorators Only
Recently I reposted an excellent blog article by Rick Roth from Ink Kitchen on my social media feeds. (Please read Rick's article!) My repost of that article on LinkedIn prompted an interesting online discussion and a few phone calls.
The…

Basics: Wet on Wet Screen-Printing
Apparel Decorators Only
There are many reasons why a t-shirt shop should learn how to screen-print inks using a wet on wet technique.
The primary driver though, is simply speed.
Every time you flash, you are slowing your production output. If you are flashing…

Print Flash Print: An Ode to the T-shirt Screenprinter
Apparel Decorators OnlyPrint Flash Print.
A mantra for the one-color hit.
Bold replacing boring
of a blank stock t-shirt.
A delicate effort of force.
Print Flash Print
Daily rituals.
More sales add both security and stress.
For the…

Terror Free Tri-Blend T-shirt Decoration
Apparel Decorators OnlyTri-Blend. Have you noticed that this style is dominating t-shirt sales lately?
Once upon a time in the decorated apparel industry, there used to be a name for those types of gray shirts.
Heathers.
Back in the day, there were…

Screen-printing is a Lion - Digital Printing is a Cheetah
Apparel Decorators OnlyRecently in a few decorated apparel social media groups that I’m in there has been some debate about the merits of digitally printing t-shirts. Some say that you can’t make any money doing it. Others point out that there are problems…