A Newsletter from Screenflex Inks Canada Ltd. & www.screenprintcatalog.com

 
That’s right, only Wilflex Oasis Plascharge (plastisol) or Wilflex Oasis Discharge (waterbase) ink has none of the “nasties” that turns off a lot of printers from wanting to print with discharge. Gone are the formaldehyde and the heavy metals.
 
And the best part is that Oasis Plascharge can be used with the Wilflex general purpose plastisol […]

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How have we been saving our customers a pile of dollars?
 
When we last addressed the Canadian Loonie and its impact on pricing, it had suddenly risen against the American dollar all the way past par to $1.10. Since then it has dropped back almost as quickly to about par. Predictions for the future are all […]

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This is all about the lessons learned in defending an unsuccessful law suit brought against Screenflex by an equipment manufacturer.
 
It involved a new but faulty conveyor dryer returned by the printer to Screenflex. Screenflex refunded the printer in full but the manufacturer refused to take the dryer back and instead filed an $11,000.00 law suit […]

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Because most of Screenflex’s product is imported from the U.S., we constantly monitor the Canadian dollar / U.S. dollar exchange rate. And, like just about everyone else in Canada, we have been keeping a very close eye on things as the Canadian dollar approached, and then exceeded, parity.
It is of course good news for […]

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Now that is production productivity! And it is not just hype, it was timed before witnesses. Click on Kathleen for a bigger image if you would like a closer look. The shirt was printed in the Stretch Devices booth at the Orlando SGIA show.
It was achieved with art, equipment and materials available to everyone interested […]

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We went looking for a superb one-part emulsion that could be manufactured at a great price for our textile screen printers. We also wanted to be the first to introduce artistic and creative labels to our industry. If this industry is all about art and creativity, you wouldn’t know it from the deadly dull […]

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We just cannot let this one slip by without sharing it with our Canadian printers.
 
Today we had a call from an Ontario printer, it went something like this (names withheld for obvious reasons)…
 
“Screenflex, good afternoon.”
 
“Hi. I’m calling from XXXXXX . Can you match and mix PANTONE® colours in plastisol?
 
“Yes we can. We have been doing that […]

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We have seen so many print shops with resident pets that we just had to feature as many of them as possible. Here is the first of many.
Meet Bailey, the six-year-old Rottweiler who goes to work every day at Images of Colour in Edmonton. Tammy and Darren, who own the company, tell us that […]

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Another SGIA show is over and the industry buzz is that the SGIA show is now, more than ever, a digital graphics show.
Many have suggested to us that the textile screen printing presence seems to be declining every year. Screenflex finds it hard to argue with this point of view. We continue to attend the […]

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