4 Color Process : CMYK and Screen Printing

November 12, 2012

There is often confusion when customers come to us with full color artwork expecting that we can print it with 4 colors on any garment color when the reality is often quite different. 4 Color Process (also known as CMYK) printing was developed to reproduce full-color artwork accurately when printed on white paper. Essentially, a [...]

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Metallic Shimmer Inks vs Foil prints

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 David in our art department has this to say about our metallic shimmer ink, “Yo dude, it’s straight GLITTER!” And he’s basically right. Metallic shimmer is a specialty ink additive with small reflective particulates suspended in an ink base. Rather than producing the shine of our foil treatments, each individual particle catches the light, producing an [...]

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Over the Zipper!

November 8, 2012
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Waterbased inks are uniquely suited to the challenges of printing over the front of a hoodie – even those with zippers! The key is three fold: 1.) If you want to use discharge inks on a dark garment, use a hoodie with 100% cotton fabric or 100% cotton facing on a poly/cotton fleece base. Gildan [...]

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THE TROUBLE WITH SILICONE WASH

September 26, 2012

Most tee shirt fabric is treated with enzymes or silicone before construction and has little to no impact on print results.  Enzyme washing uses organic chemicals to alter or accelerate the dye process. Silicone washing increases the softness of the fabric. Typically by the time construction (sewing) is finished, there’s not enough of these washes left [...]

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Why do you talk about water-based inks all the time?

August 9, 2012

What are they? What does it mean for me? Who are you? Why are you obsessed with ink? What’s wrong with you? Why is water so special? Doesn’t discharge sound gross? Why does it matter? What’s the difference? Why are you eating that? So everyday I talk to people who’ve heard of what we do, [...]

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Facebook Free Tee Giveaway!

July 18, 2012

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A Screen Printing Laser Alignment System for Less Than $20

July 18, 2012
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Head press operator (and tinkerer) Daniel Phelan explains how to make your own DIY laser level system for less than $20. No need to pay over a thousand dollars for an “industry specific” system when you can rig something up from the hardware store . . .

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Is water-based screen-printing environmentally friendly?

July 12, 2012

Yes… And No. It all depends on who is using them and how. A lot of shops advertise that they use environmentally friendly waterbased inks, and that is awesome! However the thing no one likes to talk about, is that waterbased inks are really only eco-friendly when you use and dispose of them in a [...]

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Our Custom Printing FAQ is now online!

July 10, 2012
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You can read it online here: The Forward Printing Custom Printing FAQ. This online document updates pretty often with new questions from customers. If you’d like to submit a question for the FAQ, you can email us here.

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What Pantones do YOU love? Now taking submissions…

July 3, 2012
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We’re updating our house colors! Soon we’ll be offering not just 31 house pantone colors… we’ll be offering 100 different House Inks to our customers at no additional charge. OMG. We’re super pumped, and we want to hear what Pantone Numbers you’d like to make the cut. So leave a note on our blog,  email, call us, snail mail, [...]

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