“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!

Rad seven color print with water-based discharge inks for our friends at Life in Aggro.

Congrats on the successful kickstarter!

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 example of using the vintage muted effect to your best advantage. We love printing Kevin’s work, because it just works so well with fabric inks, and the folks at The Cult made a risky choice with their garments that really paid off.

Unfortunately the bright sunlight in the photos doesn’t really do justice to the garment color; the Aqua/black BB401 is a pretty cool tee with a vintage cut that really sets off the vintage looking print. Truly a rad tee worthy of an amazing author! We’re really stoked with how this turned out and can’t wait to see what The Cult’s next project is!

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!

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 it! Blue Foil is the new Gold.

(Ink Guy Kevin says “GO WARRIORS!”)

Planet Spirit Thunder by AJ Fossum

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 be my new favorite. Great subtle alternative to boring old Navy Blue. Way to be a trendsetter, Bob!

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 harsh solvents… when you dress and drink responsibly, show the world how they can do it too!” – DKH website

To kick off the new year we decided to dig into our considerable archive of past prints to see what gems were lurking around. After many rounds of sorting and high level meetings we settled on these twelve shirts as a good representation of work we’ve enjoyed seeing again. We expect 2012 to be full of more awesome designs to add to our collection of favorites so keep ‘em coming in!

Adapt "Real Chill Scrill" design >>> adaptclothing.com

Spearhead "Ganesh" design >>> michaelfranti.com

Tattoo City "Diver" design

Metallica "Harvester of Sorrow" design

Lunatik Clothing "Buried Alive" design >>> lunatikclothing.com

nice silog design from ShirtSilog

I Love Synthesizers tee

Forward "Tribune" promo tee

TreeShurts "White Rhino" tee >>> treeshurts.com

Kenwood "Artist Series Tee" design by Obey

Fangamer "Magi's Tower" design >>> fan gamer.net

Wow, our boy Jonathan over @ Jusami keeps coming up with the freshest kiddie prints. This time we’ve got a leopard skin dinosaur, printed in 4 colors with waterbase inks. Be sure to pick one up here: Jusami : Terrific Tees For Kids

Jusami - Dino Leopard Toddler Tee in all of its glory.

All of Jonathan’s designs get printed on Monag brand garments. These garments discharge great and are very well constructed of quality cotton. Many Monag garments are constructed of interlock fabric which feels very soft but durable at the same time. For lack of a better word, the fabric feels “fluffy” to me. We generally print these designs through 230-S Thread mesh and double hit on some colors to get the penetration needed for interlock fabric.

Closeup view of the Dino Leopard print. You can see the shirt fibers which means this is a soft and breathable print.

Another closeup shot of the print showing strong and bright colors on a color that typically gives some problems when trying to discharge.

Waterbase printing is our comfort zone, and we’ve been know to talk down about plastisol ink. Regardless, we do need to use plastisol for some types of fabric. Recently, our clients have begun asking us to print on performance fabrics which are known for their moisture wicking properties. These garments are made of 100% polyester, so we need to resort to plastisol since water based inks will look washed out on this sort of garment.

Luckily, Tim over at Screen Printers Resource set us up with the new line of Rutland “Endurance Inks” which are specifically formulated to print on these sheer 100% polyester fabrics. We are glad that we tried these out because they work quite well.

First we print a clear barrier underbase down, flash it and then lay the top colors on next. This ink cures at 290 degrees so we are able to run our dryer faster and avoid any dye migration issues.
Just like that, we have printing technical garments down pat!