CustomInk Holiday Party & Inkademy Awards
What comes before Part B? CustomInkβs Holiday Part-AY!! (The joke never gets old. No, seriously, it doesnβt.) Every year, CustomInk hosts a shindig for the team around the holidays. Itβs one of the only times we get to see our fellow Inkers dressed up. (Seriously, some of us are barely recognizable.) Itβs super fun. Thereβs free food, [...]
Artist Spotlight: Elizabeth C.
January’s Artist Spotlight is on Elizabeth, one of our Procurement Captains. Basically, she gets the right t-shirts to the right printers as fast as possible. She has to juggle inventory, shipping, and manage the time it takes to get t-shirts to their destination. Let’s just say there are quite a few maps of the US & [...]
Wish I Had a Shirt: Penguins
If there was a mascot for winter, it would be a penguin. Am I right? Somehow, in January, there is, in fact, a Penguin Awareness Day. A day to celebrate the penguin for always being the best dressed or for being flightless but still cool. It just so happens that we have some stellar penguin images in our artwork library. And, some of our [...]
Polyester: A Much Improved Blast from the Past
Ever wish you knew more about the fabrics used to make our products?Β Thought you did, so Iβve dedicated this blog post to schooling you on polyester β a βgo-toβ fabric in many of our athletic and t-shirt styles.Β Itβs come a long way since the very βcolorfulβ clothes of the 70s (that was the nicest way I could say it). And with the [...]
Image Selection: Whatβs the .Gif-ference?
I am firmly putting on my Sales/Service Representative hat to work through a series of questions I get asked about using your own artwork in a design. What files work best? How do I upload my files? How do I make sure it prints the way I want it to? A few weeks ago, I wrote about cool things that you can do with a photo, but before we [...]
National Hat Day
Did you know that tomorrow, January 15th is National Hat Day?!Β In celebration of this much loved and sometimes overlooked American staple, I thought it would be nice to give hats their time to shineβ¦err shadeβ¦well, you get it.Β These are just a few of my favorites…
Customer Stories: Valentineβs Day
February conjures up images of hearts, cupids and generally lovey-dovey stuff. It holds the dreaded, er, sweet celebration of love and lovers: Valentineβs Day. It also happens to be National Weddings Month. So as we approach this month of love, I wanted to take a look at some of our customersβ love-themed, wedding, or otherwise [...]
Oh, Canada!
As I settle in to write todayβs post I am thankful for one thing; Iβm not outside. It is January in DC, and that means freezing temperatures, high winds, ice storms, and hopefully no repeats of last yearβs Snowpocalypse (cross your snow-shovels). It is too frigid for even my arctic blood, but one thing that makes me feel better is [...]