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During the winter, many people choose fleece fabrics for having merchandise screen printed on for their business, club, or what have you, especially here in Reno Nevada where there is plenty of snow on the ground. With this, we have noticed that fleece is one of the most difficult fabrics to print on due to […]
There are many different things to know when you have your home based business, especially about taxes. Here is a great article from Calibrated Screen Printing about taxes. “If you run a home-based business, there are many tax deductions available to you. If you are a sole proprietor, meaning you have no employees and your […]
Business can be slow now because of the season and the economy. Even with this, there are still easy, inexpensive ways of advertising your business so that the name still gets out there. And, right now is a great time to advertise because there is far less competition than in the busy season and the publicity is less expensive. Here are 10 great ways to promote you business with screen printing (or digital transfer) in reno, nv (nevada). The first thing that you might want to do is simply screen printing your business name in the inside of each garment that you have made. This way, the person wearing the shirt will still see the name and they will still wear the garment. Next, high schools and colleges are a great place to find some new business. Contact the schools in your area to ask about having your products placed in the school store. Also, consider advertising your business in the school newspaper or on the school Web site.
Many people have asked about starting organic clothing lines lately. This can easily be achieved, but is often slightly more expensive. While a t-shirt will normally cost a new design about $5 each before printing, the organic t-shirts will be about $9. In order for a t-shirt (or any piece of cloth or clothing, for that matter) to be considered “organic” it must be created from natural materials (cotton, wool, hemp…whatever) that have not been treated with a chemical fertilizer or pesticide. In addition, for a piece of clothing to be truly “organic,” it must be made from plants that are not genetically modified. As far as physical characteristics of organic t-shirts are concerned there ins no difference between these and other cotton t-shirts. Also the process of making organic t-shirt goes, it is exactly same as that used for making cotton t-shirts in general.
Plastisol vs. Water-based Ink for Textile Printing
“There are two main types of ink that are used for textile printing. Water-based ink utilizes either dyes or pigments in a suspension with water as the solvent. Plastisol ink is a PVC (Some inks are Phalide Free) based system that essentially contains no solvent at all.
Today I found this article detailing where screen printing came from and the advancements we have made today. As some of you may know, screen printing began with cavemen printing their hands on walls in caves and continued on until the invention of the silk screening process in the early 1900’s. Luckily for us, screen printing methods expanded on into the mid 1900’s and then all the way up until today. Although there are many new ways of transferring ink onto a garment (direct to garment printing), we still prefer the “old fashioned way of screen printing” and continue to do it like Samuel Simon of Manchester.
Why should you use screen printing instead of heat transfer? The answer, you shouldn’t. Both processes have their advantages and applications. The purpose of this blog is to help you understand the various advantages to help you make an informed decision of which process to go with.
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