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

This is a “good news / bad news” story.
Oh yes, we all know that the Canadian textile screen printing industry needs all the help that it can get right now but, unfortunately, some manufacturers have indicated that they still have to put up their prices. Apparently there have been raw material price increases that have to be [...]

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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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Effective today (1st September 2009), Screenflex ’s Western Canadian operation has been acquired by Stanley’s Sign and Screen Supply.
Stanley’s Calgary office will continue to serve printers in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Territories with exactly the same range of products and services that Screenflex provided as well as products and equipment that Screenflex did not carry. Wendy Wenzel has moved [...]

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You probably don’t need reminding by this photograph recently taken at Lake Louise in the Rockies, what time of the year it is again in Canada. But let us remind you that it is now when you have to be careful to not allow emulsion (or any other water-based products) to freeze.
Freezing does not take long in the cold temperatures that we have [...]

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With U.S.-sourced screen printing products escalating in price due to the sudden increase in the cost of a U.S. dollar, and ink being no exception, our focus has been turned back to ink cost efficiency.
First of all though, before we look at ink costs, printers should keep in mind that they have much bigger cost issues [...]

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