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Ryonet strives to develop greener products and processes by providing a more eco-friendly experience for both printers and the Earth. Because of this, we build our products on the foundation of the EPA’s definition of sustainable chemistry. These 12 principles guide us through the entire lifecycle of our product development: design, manufacture, usage and disposal. […]

Imagine this: You’re a water based only screen printing shop. A customer walks in through the door, carrying cash in hand and says he wants to order 600 two color back print t-shirts. You say sure, give him your prices, and ask him what kind of shirts he wants to print on. He says he […]

Dustin Burnett started the retail store, Nothing Too Fancy, only three and a half years ago. Now the largest retail and contract print shop in Knoxville, his was the first boutique t-shirt store to hit the city. “We typically do vintage style t-shirts,” Dustin said. “Our retail store, without any intentions, has turned into a […]

“We’ve been printing with water based ink for a year and our printers love it, just because of the ease. The softness of the ink in particular, especially with discharge. It’s easy to clean up – no mess, and it washes up with water. We have one full time printer, now when he gets plastisol […]

I learned how to print using plastisol on an old beat up press I bought off Craigslist. A common beginning for most screen printers. The first paid job I did was for a very large and well-known fitness brand – 2,500 white hand towels. In my haste and inexperience, I printed them with plastisol. Can […]

Designing for water based printing isn’t that much different from plastisol printing, but there are some minor changes that need to be addressed in order to get the best out of your artwork. The biggest consideration being the number and frequency (or infrequency) of your flashes during the printing process. With plastisol ink, most people […]

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Plastisol inks have dominated the United States market for the last few decades. So it’s easy to forget that the history of water based inks were actually the first inks used in screen printing. The History of Water Based Ink While the art and industry of screen printing was forming in the early to mid-1900’s, […]

Lone Mountain Printing is a high production water based only screen printing shop, and the pride and joy of Bozeman, MT. The motto for their shop is “Apparel Worth Wearing” which, owner and operator, Colin Shane, explained means that “if it isn’t worth wearing, for me, then it isn’t worth selling.” This is a motto […]

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Well folks, here we are for another rousing edition of automatic printing tips and tricks. The topic this time: water based ink. I’ll be honest, it hasn’t always been my favorite medium. My very first print way back in 1986 was done with water based ink, and turned out to be a huge failure. Looking […]

There are several options you can use to achieve the “distressed look”. Most commonly, printers use their design software to create distressed looking artwork. But before Adobe and the ease of digital design came around, screen printers would often distressed their actual positives. You can also use specific printing techniques to create that damaged, out […]

One of the biggest demands in the printing industry is athletic printing. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when printing on a polyester fabric using low cure. 1. Dye migration: This happens when a polyester fabric hits a certain temperature, usually between 300˚ and 310˚. At this temperature, the dye in […]

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“Texas Print Solutions (formerly Teamline) started printing as an all manual shop with M&R® presses. We decided to look into an automatic when we barely were able to print all the orders coming in this last summer. The orders were there, but the auto was not. The issue with other automatics is that the setup […]

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