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

New stuff, interesting stuff and a perspective formed by 20 years in the industry

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Capillary film price breakthrough

March 3rd, 2010

Once in a while a manufacturer will surprise us with a really great idea with a really great price tag. This time it is ULANO with their EZ-FILM.

Okay, we know that we would have called it something else in Canada (we say “zed” and the Americans say “zee”) but just this once let’s indulge them and go with the [...]

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Want to go “green” in 2010? Consider your pallet adhesives.

January 1st, 2010

 
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 [...]

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The big hassle with childrens’ clothing and eco inks.

January 8th, 2009

 
At the moment this is a U.S. issue that only affects Canadian producers of imprinted childrens’ garments destined for the U.S. But as we all know, sooner or later, what happens in the U.S. in our industry will cross the border and happen in Canada as well. Therefore, all Canadian textile screen printers need to pay attention to [...]

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Go ahead, foil around.

June 1st, 2008

You want to add foil to a print, but only part of it. And you want the convenience of doing the whole print in plastisol. You’ve seen great plastisol prints that incorporate foil in part without having to use water based ink for the non-foiled parts. You want to do them too. But how?
You can do it the slow [...]

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Creative discharge printing.

February 24th, 2008

As we mentioned in an earlier article, Promotional Products Plus of Calgary, are doing great things with Wilflex Oasis discharge inks. Here Kathleen is showing two of their designs. Besides being on the edge graphically, the prints have a really soft hand, something that the current apparel market is demanding.  
The ”Rib Cage” design that she is wearing [...]

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Customers demanding “green”?

February 6th, 2008

If you are a textile screen printer and you have customers asking about “environmentally friendly”, “organic” or “green” garments and inks, you may just be interested in a presentation that a PolyOne executive of their Wilflex ink division recently gave.
He made the point that while people asked for “green” they could seldom explain what that meant. For instance, did they mean “organic”, [...]

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The naked bucket label.

January 14th, 2008

 
This is the story about a naked bucket label.
 
We are in an artistic, creative industry. You would never know it though from the labels on supplies like ink, emulsions and chemicals. Why do they have to be so boooooring? Where is the art? Where is the creativity? You can find more colourful and creative [...]

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Safe, soft discharge prints without the rotten eggs…

November 28th, 2007

 
That’s right, only Wilflex Oasis Plascharge (plastisol) or Wilflex Oasis Discharge (waterbase) ink has none of the “nasties” that turns off a lot of printers from wanting to print with discharge. Gone are the formaldehyde and the heavy metals.
 
And the best part is that Oasis Plascharge can be used with the Wilflex general purpose plastisol [...]

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Xpose emulsion, not just a great label.

November 8th, 2007

 
We went looking for a superb one-part emulsion that could be manufactured at a great price for our textile screen printers. We also wanted to be the first to introduce artistic and creative labels to our industry. If this industry is all about art and creativity, you wouldn’t know it from the deadly dull [...]

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