Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Drum print was printed with Murakami Static Stretch and glues, 225/S base, 350/S colors.
Thanks for the replies to the drum print.This was hand separated and if I'm not mistaken an 11-12 color print.Here is the original art I provided him. I still like making a t-shirt now and then!It's neat to go in a shop in some corner of the world and see a screen maker wearing one he picked up at a show or from my dealers.One of the best things I ever learned in this business was to outsource. We managed to grow our company by leaps and bounds using other company's skills. So many great printers that sometimes it doesn't pay to reinvent the wheel. We had a 6, 8, 12 color presses. but a job like this needs more heads, more flashes and so it was cheaper on high color count sim process to job it out. That company found we had puff foil dialed in with discharge printing, so we shared business. This is invaluable when you get overloaded with work, or the job is beyond your capabilities. We eventually became merchandisers and after he closed due to health it led me to a Nike Sourcing job and all the great shops in the US and Central America. Now I try to give back all the tricks I have learned from my shop and those that my printers are willing to share, some I won't share which are proprietary but golden. Tom at Motion, Pierre, Danny, Culture Studio, Morning Sun Shirt Company (which was my first comany I started and was sold to Kawi who has taken it incredilbe HSA printing), Mark Gervais from Ningbo in China, Techo Screen in El Salvador, are all great companies, and I'll bet there are many others here on the board that you need to know. You could be a small printer and land a big fish that you could partner with these great companies and land a new customer and capability that is often proprietary. I've tried duplicating Tom's seps by hand, and failed miserably. Some of the shops I go into have continual R&D and ask the tough questions at shows from Mark Coudray, Lon Winters, myself and fellow printers then go on to improve it. I couldn't touch the work from the companies I have mentioned above, they have it down, sometimes instead of beating them, join them and you too can offer product that can take years of hard R&D that never ends.
Don't know and I am known to set aside some time for R&D but it appears some people have a whole lot of time on there hands