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Month: July 2016

Shop talk – When can water based inks work and when do they fail?

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • July 31, 2016
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Screen printing techniques
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Screen printers will mostly agree that they do not like using water based inks. In a fast paced print environment where ‘time is definitely money’ there are significant problems with using water based inks instead of plastisol inks, which are oil based. The clue is in the name. A water molecule is approximately 50 times […]

Veblen, conspicuous consumption, virtue signalling and your T shirt brand.

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • July 26, 2016
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​The unacceptable face of capitalism is in the news this week. Philip Green is accused of enriching his own life at the expense of the many, this is capitalism personified. It is an ugly face. This makes us think and occasionally, we feel we need to write something that stretches us and offers the reader […]

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