Decoration

This year, MADE Laboratory opened its doors in Fort Worth, Texas, for a full day dedicated to education, collaboration, and helping print shops improve what they do every day. Instead of walking through rows of trade show booths, attendees got to experience equipment in a real production environment, ask questions directly to industry experts, and see new ideas put into action.

You're halfway through a production run when ink starts drying in the mesh. The image begins plugging up, prints start looking rough, and production slows to a crawl. Someone grabs a can of screen opener, gives the screen a quick spray, and suddenly everything is back to normal.

If you’ve spent any time dialing in screen printing setups, you already know that mesh selection can make a huge difference in print quality. One mesh that’s been standing out lately is SAATI’s Hi-Dro mesh — and after running some real-world testing with it, the results were hard to ignore.

In screen printing, we spend a lot of time talking about meshes, inks, exposures, and press settings—but often one of the most important tools in the entire process often gets overlooked: The squeegee. At the end of the day, the squeegee is the tool that’s actually *doing the printing*. It’s the component physically shearing the ink through the screen and onto the garment. If that action isn’t clean and precise, nothing else upstream really matters.

Shirt Kong, St Peters, MO Hot market printing is one of those things that sounds cool on paper and then hits you hard in real life. World Series. Super Bowl. Big moments where fans want merch immediately. Not next week. Not after a reprint. The next morning. That kind of turnaround is wild, and it’s […]

By Ryan Moor, with takeaways from Dylan Gilligan and The Shirt Show Newsletter This year marked the 8th Print Hustlers, and for me, my 8th time attending. As Bruce Ackerman, founder of Printavo and the Print Hustlers Conference, said in his opening remarks—it’s incredible to see how far this event has come. From a humble […]