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

Finally some good news out of the U.S. for Canadian screen printers! A letter from Ulano to its distributors dated January 18th, 2010 and signed by Gary Gayton is interesting for the fact that it is not a usual manufacturer’s annual sorry-but-we-have-no-choice-but-to-increase-prices whine.
Quoting from the first paragraph…
“As Al Guercio mentions in his column in the January issue of the Ulano [...]

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As the 2010 Winter Games approach, it is time to resurrect this article first published in 2008…
Kathleen salutes our Beijing Olympians and their 18 medals in her official Canadian Olympic Team t-shirt. She also looks forward to great results from our winter Olympians with her official Vancouver 2010 sun visa.
Canadian gear! Canadian pride! Made in China?
We know that others [...]

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You are a good parent. You have booked your kid in for scuba diving lessons. You have put out big bucks for a really cool wet suit with a neat little screen-printed logo. But you are also a concerned and safety-conscious parent so you have made sure that the logo was screen printed with ink [...]

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“Just push a button and watch this machine make money.” I promise you, that was the bold statement right there underneath a video presentation on the web site of a Canadian distributor promoting a brand of digital tee-shirt printers.
The video of a black tee-shirt being printed on the inkjet printer was presumably designed to convince everyone that it is finally possible to produce reasonable digital prints [...]

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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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We were chatting today with a printer who was ordering a 5 gallon pail of emulsion. The question of freezing came up because at that time outside our warehouse in Calgary the temperature was about -33 Celsius (approx -28 Fahrenheit). The local radio stations were warning us that with the wind chill effect it was [...]

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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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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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