If you’ve attempted to print, label, or otherwise decorate a three-dimensional (3-D) product, you’ve probably been frustrated by an ink or adhesive that refused to adhere...
Is a color hot pink or flamingo? Forest green or hunter green? Where an ink mixer sees sky blue, does the customer see powder blue? The...
Industrial applications present screen printers with some of the most unusual requirements they’re likely to face. Odd surface shapes, sizes, textures, and substrate compositions are just...
When I saw the latest Hollywood hot-rod flick, “The Fast and the Furious,” I thought, “Man, I wish I could do that to my computer!” Just...
Increasing profits and expanding product lines are two issues on the minds of many business owners in today’s competitive world of screen printing. Breaking away from...
It’s tough to justify purchasing new equipment in an uncertain economy. But sometimes a device or technology comes along that offers you the opportunity to expand...
Most people think of screen printing as a flat printing process because the substrates are usually flat and decorated in a horizontal position. Screen printing is...
Choosing the best pressure-sensitive adhesive system for a screen-printed graphic can be challenging. While some performance criteria, such as whether the adhesive is permanent or removable,...
In the pad-printing industry, purchasing decisions are often based on assumptions that are simply nuts–literally. The president of a company will see a pad-printing machine printing...
It’s hard to imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to use a wide-format inkjet printer to produce film separations in house, providing it could be done quickly,...