It is winter in Canada again and therefore time for our annual reminder that certain screen printing supplies can be ruined by freezing. At this time of the year labels something like the one above, should be taken seriously.

Emulsion has traditionally been the biggest problem in the Canadian winters both in shipping and storage. Although it . . . → Read More: Do not freeze…

A world-wide shortage of a key ingredient in white pigment and white ink, Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) is having an impact on white ink prices.  

Apparently TiO2 production has been lagging behind demand for at least the past year. That means that the price of TiO2 has shot up and that in turn means that any product made with TiO2 . . . → Read More: Titanium Dioxide and white ink prices

The “crisis”:

Floods and/or droughts in cotton-growing countries such as China, Pakistan and India are given as the main reasons for what is being called the world-wide “cotton crisis”. For Canadian textile screen printers it means that there are delays in deliveries of t-shirts and that the price of a t-shirt is going up. And the really . . . → Read More: One solution to the “cotton crisis”