In a business defined by pushing and pulling ink across a screen making a mess is an inevitability. Every time you mix inks or chemicals, clean a screen or break down a press there’s a chance stray colors could well...
What’s the difference between new screen printers and established pros? The pros have made - and learned from - hundreds of mistakes over the course of their careers. What you don’t know can hurt your print shop’s bottom line, cost...
There are many factors that determine how long your screen will last, and this is a dilemma that all screen printers face. Like any piece of equipment, how and where you store them matters significantly. If screens are taken care of properly, they can last for many years.
Fibrillation can still occur despite your best efforts, but what is it and how does it happen? Fibrillation happens when the fibers of a shirt break through the ink deposit, giving your shirt a faded or fuzzy look. The success...
One of the hottest techniques in the screen printing world right now is Discharge Printing, but there is a lot of misinformation out there as to what you can and cannot do with discharge printing, as well as what you...
Sometimes you have to jump. Texsource founder Robert Bolin learned that mantra early on as a paratrooper serving with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division from 1979-1986. It's also a lesson he remembered years later when he turned a wave...
