I have a special affinity to contract screen-printing work. After all, this is the niche my own screen-printing business was set up to serve. Over the...
Did you know that much of the high-volume contract printing work once handled by domestic garment printers is now going to foreign shops? Learn why offshore...
My favorite screen-printing proverb is, "The quality of your printed products is only as good as the quality of your screens." In order to achieve high-quality...
Your printed result is only as good as the screen used to print it, so it pays to focus on quality screenmaking. Last time, we looked...
While heat is an essential component of the garment-printing process, it is one of the most troublesome variables that we face as a screen printers. Not...
Last month, we reviewed the parameters for measuring temperature and heat exposure during flash curing and drying in direct garment printing. This month, we’ll consider the...
As another year comes to an end, I would like to summarize my thoughts on achieving consistent quality control through process standardization. The greatest challenge in...
As garment screen printers across the land attempt to come up with new printing methods and effects to dazzle the consumer, many are applying unique processing...
In "The Do’s & Dont’s of Special-Effect Inks," I reviewed the do’s and dont’s of special-effect printing from the standpoint of artwork engineering and process sequencing....
Last year, Screen Printing magazine introduced readers to screen-printable electroluminescent (EL) lamps that can be used in electronics and other industrial and graphics applications. The technology,...