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Supply chains compromised…start your planning.

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • August 16, 2020
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Bangladesh supply chain issues

Covid has had a massive impact in the UK but the effect on manufacturing in the Asian sub continent has been significant and is about to come home to roost if you are a garment buyer of blank t shirts. Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, where most of the worlds garment production occurs, have been on […]

Have you ever thought about printing on the inside of your t shirt?

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • January 6, 2019
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Screen printing techniques
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Have you ever thought about printing on the inside of your t shirt? I know…..what would be the point? However, for some time now we have seen exactly this going on with fashion brands and we have to admit it looks kind of nifty if you get it right The idea is that you create […]

What has veganism got to do with T-shirts?

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • January 5, 2019
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What has veganism got to do with T-shirts? It’s a strange concept because it’s not like you get to eat your garments but it is a very real and growing trend right now. The demand for t shirts which satisfy an objective to avoid using animal products and an absence of animal testing or cruelty […]

T shirt printing- why is it expensive to do low volumes when using a screen print process?

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • July 26, 2017
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Screen printing techniques
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Remember your GCSE ( or even O Levels! ) economics class? Remember that old chestnut that wore thin by repeated use? That phrase that you could utter under pressure, to get you out of the teachers’ spotlight. ECONOMIES OF SCALE. The more you can produce in one go, the cheaper the unit price becomes. This […]

T-Shirt printing artwork -Creating a distressed or vintage look.

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • March 16, 2017
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We get asked, quite regularly, how we can help create a ‘distressed’ or ‘vintage’ look for our t shirt printing customers. The answer is three-fold. 1 Select the right garment. 2 Add the ‘distress’ into your artwork. 3 Use the correct ink. Select the right garment first There are a number of garments from various different […]

Our top 10 Gamer t shirts

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • February 16, 2017
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I am 44 years old. I am a first generation gamer. Amongst other things, I am a gameaholic. Home gaming with me really began in 1982 when my next door neighbour, Matty Haines, got a ZX spectrum and a moody cassette copy of Airwolf. We swapped our outdoor play; our BMX adventures and tree climbing, […]

Muay Thai T shirts – an excursion into an obscure genre.

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • February 6, 2017
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I don’t know what world you guys inhabit at the moment, but my world is Muay Thai. I love having an obsession, something to focus on and be passionate about and this seasons flavour is from Thailand. If you know nothing about Muay Thai, have little consideration for honing your physical skills to inflict violence […]

The tour T-shirt; The ultimate souvenir

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • August 3, 2016
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If you are reading this, the chances are you are a serving soldier or share a general interest in the military. If you are neither, then please forgive some of the parlance, you will only understand it if you had been there. In the summer of 1999, after I completed P Company, I attended my […]

What is colour matching for t-shirt printing?

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • June 21, 2016
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Screen printing techniques
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Your guide to Pantones, RGB, CMYK, HEXand just SWAGGING  it. SWAG is an acronym taken from the phrase Scientific Wild Arsed Guess. It is always better to avoid ‘SWAGGING’ it if real data and executive accuracy can be deployed to help produce the right outcome in a situation where an error has tangible and painful […]

What is Colour Separating for T-shirt Printing

  • By : Andy Timmins
  • October 22, 2015
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Screen printing techniques
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  What is colour separating for T shirt printing? Printing onto T-shirts using the traditional screen printing process is not always straightforward. There are variables, which will determine the approach. The first variable is the image itself and how it will be colour separated before being sent to the screen room. Artwork is always constructed […]

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