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Image: “Japanese Lucky Koi” available at ioffer.com Incorporating foil into screen printed designs has become very popular, particularly as a fashionable special effect. It is achieved by simply heat pressing foil onto plastisol ink. When foiling first became popular it was quite easily achieved if you were covering the whole plastisol ink area of the design . . . → Read More: If you are going to foil around, consider using Foil Resist Addiditive. Jamie and Mark limped into work this morning. Jamie started explaining as they came through the door. “Sorry boss, I don’t think that we are going to be able to pull a squeegee today.” The boss couldn’t believe his eyes. He had just got their first decent order for weeks and now these two were obviously not going . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend? This week we are showing a 1979 t-shirt from the Screenflex collection to illustrate how creativity and rapid turnaround have always been key features of this industry. Given the current situation in the Middle East it seems appropriate to show this particular example now. The employees of a Houston-based heavy construction company were evacuated from Tehran and . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity. 
This is part 2 of a 2-part story that we are sharing about a small/medium couple-owned screen textile screen printer that figured out the pricing issues that seem to continue to terrify and baffle a lot of Canadian textile screen printers. This week we’ll tell you more about their successful higher-price strategy including what happened when they decided to jump some . . . → Read More: Pricing… one screen printer’s successful pricing strategy (Part 2) So what do you need to know about inkjet film to make sure that you put it into the printer the right way? Sound like a stupid question to you? You’ll be surprised how often we have been told by first-time users that the “stupid film doesn’t work!” because they have put it in the wrong . . . → Read More: Inkjet film. Which side up? Dear Maria: You know how much we like you. You also know how much we enjoyed working with you while the large retailer that you work for was still having its screen printing done in Canada. You will recall how for years we matched ink to your designers’ seasonal colour choices free of charge and how we then . . . → Read More: A letter to Maria (and her employer) The owner of a screen shop in the Maritimes decided that his artist had been working so hard preparing for the upcoming busy summer tourist season that he would reward her. He bought her an air ticket and a night in a hotel so that she could do a little shopping in New York City this past weekend. On . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend? Yes, we first ran this a month ago but we think that it can stand repeating. Thanks to the Comic Relief Media Team in the UK for sending us the picture of Pixie Lott and for granting us permission to use it on our blog. And, as we mentioned last time, the picture was shot by Bryan . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity with Pixie Lott, again… As part of our series of blogs on pricing, we want to share the story about a typical small/medium Canadian textile screen printer. It is a story about a couple who figured out the pricing issues that seem to continue to terrify and baffle a lot of Canadian textile screen printers. He was working for a screen printing . . . → Read More: Pricing… one screen printer’s successful pricing strategy (Part1)
Some time ago, Simon Clifford, president of Tekmar Technical Marketing of Santa Barbara, told a story about aerosol adhesive residue on the floor around a press in a textile print shop that he was visiting. It was so bad that the shop’s resident Golden Lab lay down to rest under the press and then could not get up because . . . → Read More: Want a cost-saving “greener” alternative? Consider your pallet adhesives. Last week we brought to your attention a current online scam. As we mentioned then, doing that post reminded us of a number of frauds and scams that we have encountered over the years. Here is one of them. This happened a number of years ago, but we have a pretty good recollection of how the scam worked. A . . . → Read More: Credit card scam. As we all know, the “cotton crisis” has pushed the price of garments up quite a bit. One screen printer decided that she wasn’t going to pay the prices of the Gildans of this world anymore so she searched the internet until she found a small remote independent offshore factory offering a container load of really cheap . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend? This is our weekly Friday feature for the industry’s artists and designers where we show you cool or crazy ideas that you might not have seen yet. Obviously we are not suggesting that they should be copied, but often one creative idea will lead to another. Let’s think small this week. How about hoodies for iPods or . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity. One of the many books that we have in our library, “The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses” has an interesting paragraph heading on page 99. To emphasize the message in the heading, it has been placed in a box that can hardly be missed. It simply says, “Warning! Never Aim to Be the Lowest-Cost Company” That . . . → Read More: Low-balling… it is not a happy existence. We have seen every type of textile screen printing shop from those that are absolutely spotlessly clean, to those where everything is covered in a layer of lint or “fuzz”, as some people refer to it. If you have fuzz adhering to anything in the shop, we suggest that since spring is in the air and the . . . → Read More: Spring clean the shop to prevent fuzz fires. You might or might not have come across this particular online scam, but in case you have not, we want to share it with you because we have noticed it popping up more and more lately. The approach is received by email and in each instance the wording just differs slightly. The company name and country of origin . . . → Read More: Online scams. The screen shop owner we told you about last Monday didn’t have much luck finding anyone among the job applicants he interviewed, so he advertised again during the week and conducted more interviews this past Saturday morning. One applicant came in looking pretty sharp and confident. He handed over a very neatly printed résumé and right . . . → Read More: What did you do this weekend? As mentioned before, we are addressing all the elements of product pricing of which we are aware in this series of Thursday posts. What we are offering is a kind of smorgasbord of elements knowing that not everything will apply to everybody. The intention is that you will find useful the ones that do apply to . . . → Read More: The impact of location on pricing… The best advice concerning pin-holes? Prevent them from happening, but if they do (as they will from time-to-time) then fix them before the screens get to the press. If they make it to the press, they suddenly become a real nuisance and a time waster. It seems absurd to be press down because of something as . . . → Read More: Pin holes… tiny but deadly. Here is an article by Malcolm Moore that appeared in The London Telegraph on 26th February 2010. Given the devastating impact of low-cost offshore production on our industry over almost the past decade, we think that this article should be of interest to anyone involved in the Canadian textile industry. It is longer than our usual . . . → Read More: The end of China’s cheap textile dream? |
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