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“This is really cool” blog by Jeff Proctor
June 10th, 2011Hey all….Jeff Proctor here working the Vastex booth at the NBM Show in Indianapolis this week. I can’t wait to tell you what Vastex introduced at the show this time.
It’s called the “Winged Pallet” and attaches to any Vastex V2000HD manual press allowing you to not only print a design on the front or back of your shirt but also put something on the sleeve at the same time. If you don’t own a Vastex V2000HD it’s no problem…when you order give Vastex the dimensions of your press arm and they’ll customize a bracket so it will fit your machine!
The Winged Pallet is only $159 and can be ordered by right sleeve or left sleeve depending on which you want to print. Included with the pallet is a rubber pad for easily printing over the sleeve seam. And, the first 10 people to call Vastex at 1-800-482-7839 to place an order will receive 10% off for saying you read it on Jeff Proctor’s Blog at T-Biz Network!
Blank Winged Pallet
Sleeve and front printed over shirt at same time in Vastex booth using the new Winged Pallet!
Using Special Effects Inks
January 23rd, 2011No matter where you are in the world today, when you walk into any sporting goods, department, or specialty clothing store you see a majority of garments embellished with special effects inks. You see high density inks incorporated into sports designs catering to the “X Games” crowd, shimmers and crystalinas catering to the teenage student market as well as prints containing blacklight clear catering to the rock and roll, or club market. And, the trend does not look as if it is going to stop anytime soon. Read the rest of this entry “
Goodbye Richard!
November 21st, 2010
I received the news from Scott Fresener late Wednesday afternoon (November 17) that Union Ink Company CEO Richard Labov passed away. I am one of a select group of people who had the pleasure of working for Richard for 10 good years before the company was sold.
What I am about to write is not so much mourning the death of Richard Labov as it is of celebrating and commemorating the life of a man who did things his own way almost to the day he died. I say almost because he died in a hospital bed. I think if Richard had had his choice he would have been found slumped over his desk in his office on a Saturday morning. He loved the company and working that much. Read the rest of this entry “
FESPA 2010 Germany – My Opinions by Jeff Proctor
August 9th, 2010
Let me sum up Fespa 2010, the recently concluded Federation of Europe Screen Printing Association’s bi-annual show by saying this…if you do not ever go to another show save your money and experience FESPA just once during your screen printing lifetime. The do a lot of smaller shows and every three years they do a huge show. The next smaller show is in Hamburg in May of 2011. It is a digital show but they will be having FespaFabric which will feature all types of garment decorating. Read the rest of this entry “
It’s Not Always the Ink’s Fault
July 23rd, 2010By Jeff Proctor. When I worked for an ink company, we spent most of every day talking “ink.” And you wouldn’t believe some of the stuff our staff heard on a regular basis-and from seasoned printers at that! So we’ve compiled a list of common “myths” concerning plastisol-perhaps not all of which you subscribe to, but that are astonishingly commonplace nonetheless-and offer a bit of straight-from-the-shoulder commentary in hopes of demystifying each of them. Read the rest of this entry “
Let’s Laugh Today!
April 19th, 2010While my last bit of blogging was about fun, today’s blog I hope will make you laughing uncontrollaby. I found this on the homepage of MSN. Apparently this is a live sports show that appears every Saturday afternoon on the Fox Soccer network in the United Kingdom. It has a sports anchor and three or four analysts in a studio reporting and analyzing the day’s soccer matches and on-field reporters they cut to when something important happens in a match.
What you are about to see actually happend when a Portsmouth player received a “red card” and the studio cut to the on-field reporter for a more in-depth account of what happened. Click here to view video.
Now after your laughter has subsided and you have full control of yourself I want you to think if this could happen in the United States. Can you imagine Jim Nantz anchoring the telecast of The Masters and cutting to David Faraday or any other announcer for a special live report from let’s say the 13 hole at Augusta National with similar results?
Jim Nantz: ” Ladies and Gentleman we interupt our interview with President Obama to go to the 13 green where it has been reported Phil Mickelson has just made his second consectutibe eagle to cut Lee Westwood’s three shot lead to one shot. The roar of the crowd is deafening tell us about it David Faraday. What has happened?”
David Faraday:” I don’t know, Jim Nantz, I don’t now I must have missed that……an eagle huh? Is that what the crowd was going crazy about?”
Jim Nantz: “David, you don’t know? What did you think the crowd was yelling about? What were you doing? Have you not been watching?”
David Faraday: ” I don’t know Jim Nantz, I just don’t know. The pollen must have gotten in my eyes….it’s been bad this week. Maybe one of Tiger’s girlfriends distracted me!”
Jim Nantz: “According to our sources Phil has just made his second consectutive eagle to cut Westwood’s lead to one stroke…….David, get out your fingers. If you watched from tee to green count the number of shots it took for the ball to go in the hole, subtract from five and if you get three then Phil just made eagle. It’s easy!”
David Faraday: “Well I saw the ball go in the hole….I heard the crowd roar…..I just thought it was because they liked Phil”.
Jim Nantz: “Another fine cutting-edge on-course report by the station that brings you 56 uninterupted minutes of Masters coverage every hour!”
Ok..Today Is About Fun….Guaranteed!
April 2nd, 2010If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it fall does it make a sound and likewise if you blog and no on reads it is it really a blog or merely words in print that only makes the author feel good?
Why am I beginning like this? I am simply not sure what people want so I am going to change things up today. After all isn’t the definition of chaos “doing the same things over and over but expecting different results?” Read the rest of this entry “
All-Over Printing & ISS Atlantic City Review by Jeff Proctor
April 1st, 2010
All-Over Printing is back and Vastex International is now making it easier for you to print an XL t-shirt from the top to bottom to the hem and side to side from sleeve to sleeve tip and you don’t need an expensive automatic press to do it. It can be done with a Vastex 2000HD manual press and the All-Over-Printing pallet that attaches to the press arm in the same way a normal pallet attaches. (Note: click on images to enlarge them.)
Vastex exhibited the All-Over-Pallet at the recently concluded Atlantic City Imprinted Sportswear Show. Anytime Douglas Grigar, industry consultant and Vastex Representative, would push the giant 42″ squeegee across the over-sized screen a crowd gathered to watch.
But, before continuing let me digress a little and talk about the quality of the show. In spite of horrific weather on both Saturday and Sunday the Atlantic City ISS was in my opinion a huge success for both buyers and exhibitors. I did not hear one complaint at the show 
from either side. The aisles were crowded with buyers the entire three days including up until about 2 p.m. on Sunday and, another way to judge attendance is the long lines at the food outlets which were very long and crowded from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. And, Saturday and Sunday might even have been better had it not been for an interruption of train service between Philadelphia and Atlantic City due to power poles, power lines and trees that were blown across the train tracks during the height of a storm that produced massive flooding and winds of up to 75 mph.
The All-Over-Pallet attachment sells for $375 and as I said before easily attaches to the arm of any Vastex 2000HD manual press. Also available for an additional $75 is an All-Over-Pallet-Kit which contains a large piece of rubberized foam as well as an additional print head without micro register in order to save space. The foam adheres to the surface of the pallet so when the squeegee pressure pushing the ink through the screen would normally stop on a hard pallet surface the foam compresses fillng in the seams around the sleeves and collar.
For more information about this contact Vastex at 1-800-482-7839
Heroes and Dancing!
February 26th, 2010I love my Yahoo homepage.
In this day and age of gloom and doom about the recession, unemployment or any other negative news that seems to consume the front page, there comes a glimmer of hope. Today, a story about Joannie Rochette appeared and it was not simply a glimmer. It was a ray of sunshine so bright it easily penetrated every tear welling up in the eyes of all readers. Read the rest of this entry “
This Foil Resist Really Works by Jeff Proctor
February 24th, 2010There are a lot of claims about foil resist ink and the video at the end of this article will prove that the new resist from Lancer really works and shows you how to make it work too. As many of you know I rep Excalibur Inks from Lancer Group International as well as a couple of other irons I have in the fire. I received this press release today from the Lancer Group Sales Manager, Mark Dorrington, about a product called Foil Proof. Foil Proof is a clear that when printed over colors and flashed will not allow foils to stick to those colors in a design. Read the rest of this entry “
Comments from Orlando ISS 2010 by Jeff Proctor
February 23rd, 2010Hello once again all and I give a whole new meaning to the adage “You can’t kill bad grass”. Many, including Scott thought I had gone away and joined another industry but lo and behold I have surfaced once again. Yeah, yeah I know I had promised to do this regularly but once again fell off the wagon.
I worked the Vastex International booth at the recently concluded Orlando ISS and thought I would share some comments with you that I heard from attendees. Read the rest of this entry “
It’s Not Like It Used To Be……
October 8th, 2009
…….but! I used to cringe when I heard someone say this because it always meant they were going to dredge up some long-forgotten war story that I really didn’t want to hear. Read the rest of this entry “
I May Need To Revise…
September 30th, 2009I may need to revised my last blog as I have just returned from a kick-ass Imprinted Sportswear Show in Texas. The show was held in Fort Worth and because the show was so good the recession may be coming to an end or else everyone there decided not to participate. For whatever reason noone is complaining. Read the rest of this entry “
Is the Recession Close to Ending…..
September 19th, 2009Is the recession close to ending? You have to be kidding. I heard this on CNBC just the other and I had to chuckle. Georgia alone has double digit unemployment rates and I read just a few seconds ago on Yahoo News that 42 states lost more jobs last month. And, on the home page of the Pulitzer Nominated T-Biz Network is a story about apparel giant American Apparel laying off 1500 people. Now, let me tell you the real reason in my opinion that the “recession” is not ending and this reason hits close to home. Read the rest of this entry “
You Wanna Know What’s Wrong? It’s Simple…
September 10th, 2009
I have been reading the headlines in the newspapers and on Yahoo news for the past few weeks. It’s sickening to say the least. And, it’s not the news that is sickening it’s the attitude.
America, you wanna know what’s wrong. It’s simple. Somewhere down the road we have gotten soft, yes soft. Let me tell you how I came to this conclusion.
