We were excited to welcome local artist Enchan Endo into our studio last month to work on a fun little project. For those of you who don’t know Enchan, he is an amazing illustrator and artist that creates truly unique and inspiring pieces. We love his work! A few years ago, Enchan had sketched an Continue Reading
Printworks has new digs! After working out of our basement for 8 months, we decided it was time for a move. We found a great studio space uptown on the corner of Canterbury and Duke Street. We now have a large office with a workshop in the next room. We love our new set up! Continue Reading
Why does it cost less when you order more t-shirts you may ask? The reason is due to all of the set up involved in printing a shirt. The set up for printing 1 shirt requires all the same materials and time that printing a run of 100 shirts does. So if you are only Continue Reading
We have access to some great brands including Gildan, Bella, Canvas, and American Apparel. Whether you are cost conscious, looking for a fashion tee, or want a fair trade option – we’ve got you covered! GILDAN Gildan is a Canadian company and is our primary supplier for apparel. They have a wide variety of quality Continue Reading
Choosing a screen printing press is so very important. It is going to dictate what type of shop you will operate – from number of colours you are able to print on a shirt, to how many shirts you will be able to print in an hour. Presses range anywhere from a single station table Continue Reading
What is Wordle you may ask? Well it’s a fun website we used to help design some shirts for ourselves (Printworks) as well as some patio shirts for Lemongrass & Peppers Pub for this summer season. Wordle is simple. Just type in or copy and paste a group of words you want to see and Continue Reading
If you remember from our last post about printing with multiple colours, we showed you how we got 8 colours on a t-shirt using only 4 colours of ink. No it’s not magic, it’s called 4 Colour Process (CMYK)! In this post we are going to tell you about another option when printing with multiple Continue Reading
Screen printing has been around for thousands of years, but it was Andy Warhol who helped push it into the limelight in North America. He took the stencilling technique to a whole new level when he started working with it in the early 1960′s. He created some very famous pieces including images of Marilyn Monroe, Continue Reading
Check out another “making-of” video – this one is for the KV Firefighters t-shirt over at PrintworksNB‘s new YouTube channel. Background music is my first attempt using GarageBand – be kind! Share: Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
Printing with multiple colours can get expensive. Each colour requires a screen to apply the ink and this means there is a lot of prep work and materials that go into multi colour jobs. However, there is an method that allows us to create a full colour print using just 4 different inks – the Continue Reading
