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Entries from February 2008

Creative discharge printing.

February 24th, 2008

As we mentioned in an earlier article, Promotional Products Plus of Calgary, are doing great things with Wilflex Oasis discharge inks. Here Kathleen is showing two of their designs. Besides being on the edge graphically, the prints have a really soft hand, something that the current apparel market is demanding.  
The ”Rib Cage” design that she is wearing [...]

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Tags: Looking good on Kathleen · What’s new?

Rock ‘n Roll history on tees

February 23rd, 2008

This week we are showing three of the Rock ‘n Roll shirts from the Screenflex collection.
Kathleen is wearing a Dire Straits shirt featuring Mark Knopfler from their 1992 “On Every Street” European tour. According to the tour itenerary printed on the back, they performed in 43 cities. That was their last tour befor disbanding in 1995.  
To her [...]

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Tags: Humour and History on Tees

Customers demanding “green”?

February 6th, 2008

If you are a textile screen printer and you have customers asking about “environmentally friendly”, “organic” or “green” garments and inks, you may just be interested in a presentation that a PolyOne executive of their Wilflex ink division recently gave.
He made the point that while people asked for “green” they could seldom explain what that meant. For instance, did they mean “organic”, [...]

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Tags: Going green · What’s new? · You may want to take note of this

GREENFARCE? by Michael Best

February 6th, 2008

 
Last Saturday morning I was ”greenmailed” at my favourite health food store. The whole operation had Greenfarce’s prints all over it. 
The enthusiastic young eco-warrior at the cash register announced triumphantly that the store’s bagging had gone “green”. She gave me the choice of either paying 5 cents each for the previously free disposable plastic grocery bags or 99 cents for their new re-usable, recyclable,  environmentally-friendly bag. “And [...]

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Tags: Can you believe this? · Going green