Noynoy Aquino "Hindi Ka Nag iisa" Music Video

New Kornit 921 Breeze DTG Printer

This is the new Kornit 921 DTG printer, nicknamed, "Breeze". It's is supposedly the entry level machine from Kornit and there were reports that the price starts at 75K USD.

Quoted from the Kornit press release:

"this new digital unit is capable of printing on both dark & light garments and includes an automatic pretreatment system integrated into the machine. Moreover, Kornit continues its partnership with Spectra by featuring again its unique ink system that includes 6 industrial print heads (CMYK and white), 256 nozzles included in each."

After watching the video, I could say that I was impressed with this machine. I also noticed that after a just a few passes of the white ink, the CMYK inks were then printed, unlike the previous Kornit machines where the entire white underbase had to be completely printed before printing the CMYKs. So, one could almost say that this is almost "simultaneous" printing.

Well done Kornit. Nice to know that you are not resting on your laurels and your R&D department is always hard at work and continuing the development of the DTG industry.

NOYNOY TEE - Show your love and contribute to Noynoy's campaign!

This early, I must admit that I want Noynoy to be our next President. So to contribute to his campaign, we're screenprinting this tee designed by Benjo Camay (http://the-hand.deviantart.com/) and will be selling them for 200 pesos, half of which (100 pesos) will be donated to Noynoy's campaign. Actually, each tee will take more than a hundred pesos to produce (and sell), but we'll be shouldering the excess. We will be using our busyTee brand and will use the "softouch" waterbase screenprinting method.

Let's show our love by wearing this tee and contribute to Noynoy's campaign in our own little way.

"Cory UniTee" and La Salle's Losing Streak

Well, the Green Archers lost again yesterday, against UP, a team I thought they should beat in order to have a chance to get into the Final 4. In fairness, looking at the lineup, I thought La Salle should only be ranked #5 this UAAP season, behind Ateneo, FEU, UE and UST. That's 4 straight losses, so I thought I should post this one to maybe break this losing streak.

Oh, and before I forget, this Tee is "similar" to what the players wore during the UniTee game in remembrance of our beloved Tita Cory. I just noticed that J.Webb wasn't wearing one in this picture...maybe that's one of the reason why he got carried away and gave a "light kick" to Austria which cost them the game. Oh well, that's another story though!

INC 95th Anniversary Tee

We've been printing quite a number of these tees for a couple of days now. Some clients brought their own tees, and some used our own BusyTee brand. We'll today is the actual anniversary celebration and since the Araneta Coliseum is one of the venues for the gathering of INC members, and since our Farmers Plaza shop is actually very near the coliseum, we decided to accept "print-on-demand/while-u-wait" orders. Well, so far, so good today; we've completed a couple of orders for walk-in and referral customers. Happy Anniversary to all INC members.

Spreadshirt's Print Technology

I will let you in on a little secret: Spreadshirt is one of our inspirations!

This video shows some of their print methods and we use pretty much the same methods. We use flex, flock, digital transfers and (soon) digital direct. We even have the same colors available in flex (I guess we have the same supplier). I noticed though, that they don't do embroidery and sublimation, so that's our "edge" over them, :).

Mimaki GP-604 YouTube Videos

Came across these videos of the Mimaki GP-604 on YouTube. There aren't so many videos of this t-shirt printer out there so we thank the poster, 01shopper, for uploading them.

Celebrate Walkman's 30th Birthday with the Walkman Tee

July 1 is Sony Walkman's birthday. As recalled from Sony history here: http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-18/h3.html, this date in 1979 was when the Walkman first went on sale in Japan. He's now 30 years old, although I could not say he's going strong because clearly, he's now replaced by the iPod. But still, I'm sure those of us from our generation have a lot of good memories with him. I remember when my Dad brought the Walkman from Saudi, and all of us including my cousins took turns listening for a day. And in the 80's, during my high school days in the seminary, I would hide my walkman under my pillow on lights-out time and spend 2 to 3 hours listening to Air Supply and Apo. Happy Birthday Walkman!

MJ, 1958~2009

We're saying farewell to the King of Pop, and we're sure that he will be up there with the likes of Elvis & Lennon. I remember him from Thriller in high school to Bad in college. And as for this shirt, it's in Black & White.... just like the song!

How Roland Make Their Printers

Just came across this youtube video on the net. I'm really a fan of Roland printers (we have 5 of them), specially the print and cut models. They are easy to maintain, and the softwares are really user friendly. Just did'nt realize how efficient they are in their assembly line in Japan, and they are assembled by Japanese girls (with blond hair!) :). Anyway, this is what they call the cell system of production.