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

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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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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The winner of the draw for the $50.00 gift certificate is Amy Gervais of Rapscallion Clothing and Design of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Thanks for the comments on the Xpose label.

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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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Are you going? It starts on the 18th of January. Remember, we still say that it is currently the best show in North America for textile screen printers. However, if you are unable to go this year, don’t despair, we’ll have a full report here after the show. It ends on the 20th of January […]

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Thanks mainly to Canadian snowboard racers like Freddy Ansara in our illustration, and snowboarders in general, fluorescent prints are on the way back.
 
That gave Chris Hughes, our warehouse and ink lab manager, a great idea. Chris, who has many years of experience in the industry as the former production manager in two different automated […]

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 The crew at Screenflex and screenprintcatalog.com wish you everything that you would wish yourself for 2008.

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You think that you have the flu’ so you go see a doctor. But he can’t tell if your lungs are clear because he doesn’t own a stethoscope.
 
Trying not to look too surprised, you ask, “But don’t all doctors have stethoscopes? Isn’t that the first item that they buy at medical school? Isn’t it […]

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How have we been saving our customers a pile of dollars?
 
When we last addressed the Canadian Loonie and its impact on pricing, it had suddenly risen against the American dollar all the way past par to $1.10. Since then it has dropped back almost as quickly to about par. Predictions for the future are all […]

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This is all about the lessons learned in defending an unsuccessful law suit brought against Screenflex by an equipment manufacturer.
 
It involved a new but faulty conveyor dryer returned by the printer to Screenflex. Screenflex refunded the printer in full but the manufacturer refused to take the dryer back and instead filed an $11,000.00 law suit […]

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