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

New stuff, interesting stuff and a perspective formed by 20 years in the industry

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Entries from December 2007

Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2007

 The crew at Screenflex and screenprintcatalog.com wish you everything that you would wish yourself for 2008.

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Tags: You may want to take note of this · Looking good on Kathleen

Ten buck bargains

December 29th, 2007

An unavoidable side-effect of our business is that we end up with over-stocked and older inventory.
Even though we have successfully printed 12-year-old plastisol, ink manufacturers do not support product older than 12 months. Therefore, Screenflex does not disguise the age of product or offer it as regular product on “special.” Instead, we disclose what it […]

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Tags: Newsletter Bargains

A doctor without a stethoscope?

December 19th, 2007

You think that you have the flu’ so you go see a doctor. But he can’t tell if your lungs are clear because he doesn’t own a stethoscope.
 
Trying not to look too surprised, you ask, “But don’t all doctors have stethoscopes? Isn’t that the first item that they buy at medical school? Isn’t it […]

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Cassie and Ryley, working terriers…

December 19th, 2007

 
Sixteen-year-old Cassie and 12-year-old Ryley still report for work at the Screenflex Calgary warehouse every day.
 

 
At 16 years old (that would be 112 dog years) Cassie is semi-retired and sleeps most of the day. She can be counted on to make an appearance at lunch time and again at about 5 o’clock when it is […]

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Tags: Print shop pets

Now there is a great online ordering service for U.S. textile screen printers…

December 5th, 2007

 
 
Screenprintcatalog.com, the online service of Screenflex Inks, is pleased to announce that it has launched in the U.S.
 
Screenflex started out in Canada 20 years ago with Wilflex ink and recently struck a deal with manufacturers to offer an online service in the U.S. Take a look at the web site for the selection of quality […]

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Tags: Industry buzz

Would you pay $4,000.00 for a t-shirt?

December 3rd, 2007

At a November 30th Christie’s auction in New York, a Rolling Stones t-shirt went for more than $4,000.00.
At the same auction, a maroon 1973 tour Led Zeppelin t-shirt was bid up to $1,625.00.
 
The 1975 Led Zeppelin shirt and Physical Graffiti album in the illustration hang on the wall in Screenflex’s Calgary meeting room. We […]

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Tags: Can you believe this?