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

 
“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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