A ghastly figure appears in your office, dripping large red and green spots onto the carpet. A thick yellow substance oozes from its hair onto its...
Densitometry. It sounds complicated–even painful. If you tend to shy away from quality-control devices, the word densitometer might send you screaming into the night. But the...
In pad printing, controlling and maintaining the condition of the ink is key to a successful job. Often, other uncontrolled process variables may create what is...
It’s no secret that consumer tastes in casual clothing are becoming more sophisticated. If you need proof, consider the growing number of garment screen printers who...
It’s Friday afternoon and you’ve finished working on a difficult design for a valued customer. You have mastered perfect image reproduction and are awaiting final customer...
Back in the dawn of textile screen printing (the ’70s), a customer once asked me, “Can you print on nylon jackets?” In a moment of thoughtlessness...
Dye migration and dye sublimation occur in T-shirts containing polyester when the chemicals used to dye the polyester fibers move from the fibers into plastisol inks...
What makes some T-shirts better than others? Or to put it another way, why are you willing to pay more for some brands than others? Is...
Textile screen printing has traditionally been a two-dimensional art. You could print anything imaginable, but the only directions your designer could travel were East, West, North,...
A few years ago, I decided to improve the results I was getting when printing water-based inks on dark garments. We had a toe in the...
