Fresh Print: Endless Tribute (and a close look at the new Gildan Colors!)

April 3, 2012

“Endless Tribute” Tees  for the band’s new tour. Check out Endless Tribute on Facebook! 1 color print on Gildan 5000 tees with waterbased discharge inks. We’re pretty impressed with how discharge savvy Gildan 5000′s heathers/polyblends have become, and the new colors Tweed and Antique Cherry Red are further proof!  

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Poly-cotton Blends, Cobalt Dyes, Waterbased Discharge, & YOU!

March 29, 2012

The Basics of Waterbased Discharge Inks: One of the biggest issues we run into with our customers is when they really want to use light colored water-based inks on dark cotton polyester blend tees. Usually we recommend that clients select 100% cotton tees, because blended tees have synthetic fibers that will not discharge. This results in [...]

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Fresh Prints: “I love Rock & Roll” by Life in Aggro

March 27, 2012

Rad seven color print with water-based discharge inks for our friends at Life in Aggro.   Congrats on the successful kickstarter!  

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Broken Tier Spotlight

March 26, 2012
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Company: BROKENTIER Year Founded: 2010 By: Paul Kugler Website: http://www.brokentier.com/ Favorite garment model: AA #2001, AA #BB401 Favorite video game: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 & Guilty Gear XX series How did you get started in T-shirts? After spending years playing all sorts of arcade games competitively, I had settled into a 60 hour a [...]

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Fresh Prints: “Invisible Monsters” by Kevin Tong, for The Cult, the official Chuck Palahnuik website

March 12, 2012
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Hot Off The Press: “Invisible Monsters” by Kevin Tong, for The Cult, the official Chuck Palahnuik website 4 color waterbased discharge inks on American Apparel Aqua/Black Polycotton 50/50 tee   I feel like this print is the perfect follow up to our last instructional article on waterbased discharge on polyblend fabrics: mostly because this is a great [...]

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Fresh Prints: “Double Tap” by Hungry Human

March 9, 2012

HOT OFF THE PRESS: “Double Tap” by Hungry Human. Waterbased inks, 5 colors, on American Apparel 2001 fine jersey tees. Larger version below. I’m seriously freaking out over how great this design turned out. HH is bringing the heat: I can’t wait to see what other video game inspired hotness comes our way from that guy!   [...]

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Fresh Prints: “Planet Spirit Thunder” by AJ Fossum

March 2, 2012

HOT OFF THE PRESS: “Planet Spirit Thunder” for AJ Fossum, Blue Metallic Foil plus 1 color print with waterbased discharge ink on American Apparel 2001 Fine Jersey Tees in Sunshine! This print has us looking forward to summer: these colors our customer picked are so amazing together. This tee is flashy as hell, and I love [...]

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Fresh Prints: KillerBob Graphics’ Shooting Gallery

February 28, 2012

Shooting Gallery by KillerBob Graphics Here we’ve got a 4 color chest print and 1 color sleeve print with waterbased inks.  Sadly this tiny photo does not do justice to the rad color combo of inks and the tee fabric. I don’t think I’ve seen too many prints on on Gildan’s Blue Dusk, but it might [...]

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Fresh Prints : Do Know Harm’s Ladies Tees

February 28, 2012

New Ladies tees we printed for our friends at Do Know Harm! This is a 2 color print with water-based inks on custom garments. “Sustainability is a global issue and we strive to make sure all of our products are produced in as environmentally friendly manner as possible… Our screen printing avoids the use of [...]

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ISS 2012 Recap: Better late than never!

February 14, 2012

So this year, the Forward crew attended the ISS 2012 Convention (Imprinted Sportwear Show) in Long Beach, CA back in January. We had a great time making new friends, seeing the latest products from our favorite manufacturers, and getting sneak peeks at the newest technology in apparel decoration. One of the highlights of our trip [...]

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