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Why Do Screen Prints Crack, Peel or Fade? A Troubleshooting Guide (and How to Make Prints Last)
You love a shirt for a month, wash it a few times, and suddenly the print looks like dry desert mud. Or the bright red went pink. Before you blame...
Puff, Foil, Glow and Metallic: 5 Specialty Screen Print Inks and When They Are Actually Worth It
Standard plastisol is flat, smooth and reliable. But sometimes a design needs to pop off the shirt, catch the light or glow in the dark. That is where specialty inks...
Where Should Your Logo Go? A Size and Placement Guide for Shirts, Hoodies and Hats
Your logo looks great on screen. Then the shop asks, "How big, and where does it go?" Too big and the shirt feels like a billboard. Too small and nobody...
Plastisol vs Water-Based vs Discharge Ink: Which One Is Right for Your Shirts?
You send in a design, and somewhere in the quote the shop asks, "plastisol or water-based?" It is a fair question, and the answer changes how your shirts feel, how...
Launching Your First Clothing Line? 7 Decisions to Make Before Your First Production Run
Most first clothing lines do not fail because of the design. They fail because of a handful of small decisions made in a hurry: the wrong blank, too many sizes,...
Why Does Printing on a Black Shirt Need an Underbase? How Bright Ink Stays Bright on Dark Fabric
You send in bright red artwork for a black shirt. The proof looks great. Then you picture the result and wonder: why would red ink show up on a black...
Why Your Reorder Looks Slightly Different (and How to Make It Match Every Time)
It happens to almost everyone who reorders. The first run of shirts looked perfect. Three months later the second batch arrives and the navy looks a touch darker, or the...
Race Day Shirts: Cotton, Tri-Blend or Performance? How to Outfit a 5K, Charity Walk or Fun Run
Ask any race director what they'd do differently, and the answer is rarely the course. It's the shirts. Too many larges, a print that cracked after one wash, a cotton...
7 Things Holiday Market Vendors Should Print Before Booth Day (Orange County Edition)
Every November, the same thing happens. A vendor spends weeks perfecting a candle, a hot sauce or a line of handmade jewelry, then shows up to the Saturday market in...
How to Run a T-Shirt Fundraiser That Raises Real Money (Without Boxes of Unsold Mediums)
Every fundraiser shirt sale starts the same way: someone says "let's sell shirts!" Three weeks later, there are six boxes of mediums in a garage and a treasurer doing math...
Scrubs, Name Tags & Trust: What Orange County Senior Living and Home Care Teams Need From Their Uniforms
A home care agency owner in Fullerton told us something we haven't forgotten: "My caregivers walk into a stranger's living room every morning. The first thing a family sees is...
Why Food Plant Uniforms Can't Have Anything That Falls Off (and How to Decorate Them Anyway)
Here's a question we didn't expect to hear from a snack manufacturer in Anaheim: "Can you make our logo without anything that could fall off?" Their auditor had flagged a...
