Happy New Year from Fat Dog PW!!

Looking forward to an amazing and rewarding 2012!!!

Pulled out my Yudu to make some shirts.  Eric is using the our main equipment for a new 4 color project he is working on.  We are also working on creating a clothing line and are just waiting for the name to be trademarked!!!  We have already created several designs - so we should be up and running soon.  We are starting to stock up on the supplies we need from Ryonet....

Opened my store on ETSY - FatDogPrintworks - I am so excited...Screen printing is so much fun doesn't feel much like work.  Need more emulsion and emulsion remover from Ryonet.

OK - its a go for this weekend.  I have made some shirts and will be opening a store on ETSY.  I will be posting video of the process as well as links to the products used.  Ryonet is our supplier and the service and attitude of the staff is just amazing!!!

New project completed.

We are in full swing.  Eric finished the first hundred shirts and they looked great!!

We purchased some more ink from Ryonet as well as some metal screens.  We need to get some more screens for my projects now.

Our customer loved the design we created and so far have an order for 100 shirts!!!

The old "iron on" design!!  Bye, Bye!!

Yeah...finally illness and technical issues behind, I can finally post.  We have been working on several projects.  I am working on a shirt design for my office and Eric has another team shirt he is working on.  Pics to follow.  And we have worked out our video kinks and will be posting a video this weekend as well. 

Eric is working on a two color shirt for another customer and is doing the screens tonight.  I am doing a shirt for myself and he will be helping me do the screen for it.  One really great perk with having your own screen printing equipment is that when you get an idea or an event is coming up, you can just create a shirt for it - how cool is that!!!!

Eric's dad stopped by Ryonet Tuesday in LA to pick up the ink colors Eric needed to complete the shirts for the race this weekend.  He was able to finish last night and they came out amazing!!!

Actually, Eric's designs for our new customer are 4 color so Eric ordered the parts need to upgrade from a 2 color to a 4 color station.  As well as more screens - so we don't have to reuse the ones we have already created.  So this weeks blog will be filled with much activiy.  We are very excited.

Eric finished the design and has to run down to the graphics shop to get the transparencies made.   In our first efforts our transparencies were not dark enough so the exposed screens didn't come out very good.  The  Epson 1400 BLACKMAX will be our next purchase so we can print our own.

We have a new customer and Eric is designing the art work for their logo using CorelDRAW...this will be our first 2 color shirt.  We can't wait to see the finished product!!

Well here is a pic of the logo shirt we made...turned out pretty good. 

We are going to move to one of the other blogging sites...this weekend.

Well so much for posting the video.  Video editing software has moved to the top of our "need" list.  I can't get the video posted.  I am thinking about moving to one of the other blogging communities - I will probably do that this weekend. Blogger just doesn't have a lot of tools or features the others have. 

Here is a video of us making a logo shirt. We haven't perfected the pic in the logo yet so we left it out for now. So we used the following items from Ryonet:

2 Color Screen Printing Kit

Squeegee

Wood Screens 110 mesh (20x24)

White Paint

Flash Dryer

Our sound on our camera is bad so there is no sound but we'll have that fixed before the next video.

Here it is -

Erics in the process of creating screens to make some shirts this weekend. Hoorah!! I am going to video tape the process to post. Things are coming along...we have some great designs planned - and we have some exciting stuff planned for the future!

Eric has been very busy since getting back from the expo - very motivated. He has set everything up and created an exposure room. We've been practicing - one shirt we kept under the flash dryer...a little too long.

We will be making some Fat Dog PW shirts this week...
Work can be so much fun!!

I'm jealous...Eric got to go to the NBM show in Long Beach this week. And he got to meet Ryan and the gang...Check out the Ryonet exhibit!!!

Our first screen printing attempt...ooops! got smudged by the flash dryer. Otherwise, not bad!!!

Created our first screen with our new screen printing equipment.

I am now following all my fellow contest bloggers on my blog. There are some great posts out there and its great to see all the creative enthusiasm.

We are tweeking our transparancy right now and getting ready to expose our screen - posting pic's soon.

All signed up for the NBM show next weekend in Long Beach...can't wait!! Sign up by clicking on Ryonets website http://www.silkscreeningsupplies.com/ and click on events. Hope to see some of our fellow bloggers there :-)

Erics been up late every night watching the videos - we are jut about ready to get started!!!

Our supplies arrived and we are busy unpacking and setting up our studio!!

Good morning!!! We are very excited to get started with our screen printing buisiness. We received all of our wonderful supplies this week - Thank you's to Ryan, Nick and Ashely at Ryonet http://www.silkscreeningsupplies.com/ for everything!! Pic's to follow shortly as we set up our studio and get ready to do our first shirt.