09.30.2010

How dishonest is that?

Sometimes I get disappointed. I developed in 1989 what is now the most traded, copied, used, and widespread t-shirt grid and three point registration setup in the industry. And I see so many out there that have modified it and claim it as their own,… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Screen Printing History, Industry News, Graphics, Positives
09.29.2010

Screen printing presses

A curse and a blessing for screen printing is that many things can be done wrong or in a far less than optimum way and print the job and possibly have a satisfied customer. Add the low price of entering screen printing and you can see how sometimes the m… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Industry News, Tools and Equipment, Testing/Troubleshooting
05.8.2009

Don't always depend on plastisol!

Chose an ink best for the substrate! One of the longest running and frequent questions about printing on garments is the issue of fabric with polyester content and the use of plastisol ink. The simple answer is that no matter how high quality your… more »
Categories: Printing Process, Industry News, Quality Control, Graphics, Substrates, Mesh, Inks
04.7.2009

Insane industry?

What has happened to the industry? That is a question I had on the phone today... By the way, in the last three weeks I have watched with some shock and trepidation the flurry of electronic nastiness and an insane amount of e-mail and phone calls a… more »
Categories: Industry News, Sales and Customers
03.19.2009

Industry strangeness

Thanks again to all of you who stopped by in Atlantic City to say hi and ask questions, the show was hectic (as usual) and I had a great time seeing the lot of you there. One strange item, I was approached by a manufacturer of screen printing "stuff",… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Industry News, Sales and Customers
02.24.2009

Starting out in the Screen Printing business

Choosing a press, I just returned from a regional show. One of the first questions - what press do I start with. A good question and one difficult to answer well because so much background information is necessary. Most customers orders are for one… more »
Categories: Improvising, Industry News, Tools and Equipment
02.10.2009

About the classes

I just finished our three day class and additional one day graphics seminar in California. Unusually cold and lots of rain for Oxnard/Ventura, but the class ended up without a hitch and we were able to introduce two new graphics to print and some upda… more »
Categories: Welcome, Screen Printer Ranting, Industry News
01.26.2009

Long Beach

We just finished the three day Long Beach ISS show. We saw, John, Jill, Mark, Mike, and lots of folks from the boards there, it is great to see everybody, yet... What I would not like to see is some of the old problems and personalities that have b… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Industry News