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Learn how to tension screens the right way and enhance the quality and efficiency of your work.

Coudray explores the impact of digital design in the Internet age and its repercussions for printers.

The authors discuss the most commonly overlooked variables in the screen-printing process and how to control them.

"Bright" and "soft-handed"--a pair of terms you don't usually associate with screen-printed images on dark garments. But if you use discharge inks, these qualities can describe every dark-garment graphic you produce. Find out why so few printers try their hand at discharge printing and how to put discharge inks to work in your shop.

Davis presents eight ways to build a better textile-printing operation, including a standardized procedure that ensures consistent quality from production run to production run.

Why you need them, how to use them

Davis points out what ink combinations and procedures will and worn't work for special-effects applications.

Davis continues his investigation of special-effect inks by encouraging printers to standardize the methods they use to print them. The focus of this article is mesh selection and tension, squeegee characteristics, and ink modifications.