The new printer should be here within the next few weeks. For those of you that haven't heard what it is here is a little more info.
This printer is primarily designed to print on t-shirts. It can print a full color photograph on any color shirt (including black). It actually uses a white ink as a base coat and then goes back over with the color ink. Its a pretty sweet deal. Along side printing on shirts and about any fabric it can also print on Tile, Glass, Canvas, and just about anything we can fit under the print head.
We will have it in our possession by the end of March (its already paid off before we have it). We are pretty excited to get things going.
We are expanding our graphic design business because we feel that getting into the textile printing in such a fashion will also increase our graphic design volume. By advertising for shirts and the like we are quite confident that we will get other business as well.
The best part about all of this is that by purchasing this machine we will also have the ability to utilize certain crowdfunding arenas and craft sales websites with a bit of an edge. We can't wait to get this thing.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
A new Printer on its way
Hey everyone, sorry that I haven't been posting as much lately.... We have been trying to get out business running and that has taken away from any "adventure time" that we have.
We have a very unique opportunity thanks to a local business in which I once worked as a graphic designer.
We are purchasing a Direct-to-Garment Printer (A.K.A. Textile printer or Digital Apparel Printer). We will shortly have the ability to print on a wide range of textile items and also metals and glass. We will be starting out mostly producing T-shirts. With this device we will be able to bypass Set up fees and screen fees which screen printers are always charging and we will be able to use full photo quality prints. We can do all of this on any color of shirt including black.
Thanks to this local company mentioned above, they are letting us set up shop in their back room and will also be helping us market our products to get started.
We are quite blessed to have this opportunity and are very excited to get things running.
More to come as soon as possible.
We have a very unique opportunity thanks to a local business in which I once worked as a graphic designer.
We are purchasing a Direct-to-Garment Printer (A.K.A. Textile printer or Digital Apparel Printer). We will shortly have the ability to print on a wide range of textile items and also metals and glass. We will be starting out mostly producing T-shirts. With this device we will be able to bypass Set up fees and screen fees which screen printers are always charging and we will be able to use full photo quality prints. We can do all of this on any color of shirt including black.
Thanks to this local company mentioned above, they are letting us set up shop in their back room and will also be helping us market our products to get started.
We are quite blessed to have this opportunity and are very excited to get things running.
More to come as soon as possible.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Delays in Blog Posts
Hey everyone, I haven't been as active blogging lately as I would have liked. The holidays, work, and family can definitely keep you busy.
We are currently working on some more art projects.... Funding is a little short at the moment but we will keep you updated.
Right now we are working on our "Save the Care Bears" Project. More info to come on this soon. Care Bears are cold, hungry, and alone.... Help save them.
We are currently working on some more art projects.... Funding is a little short at the moment but we will keep you updated.
Right now we are working on our "Save the Care Bears" Project. More info to come on this soon. Care Bears are cold, hungry, and alone.... Help save them.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Check out our updates
We have posted some updates to our project on Indiegogo.com
Go check out our story and who will benefit from your donations.
Our main goal is to lower costs for school students and teams/clubs.
Any amount that is donated will influence this goal.
Go check out our story and who will benefit from your donations.
Our main goal is to lower costs for school students and teams/clubs.
Any amount that is donated will influence this goal.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
HELP SUPPORT MY BROTHERS GAME
Hey everyone,
I wanted to update everybody that was interested in my brothers up-and-coming board game. With some previous issues now taken care of the updated game has been officially launched on Kickstarter.com
The board game is quite unique by itself but does have some slight influence from other games. If you are a fan of the board game Risk, or the card game Magic: the Gathering, then you are sure to love his creation.
For the full story and imagery pleasure check out his blog at http://dragonmagewarfare.blogspot.com/
To view this project on Kickstarter click HERE!!!
For those of you who don't know what Kickstarter is here is a brief explanation:
You can donate money to get certain things in return. For example, on some projects you can donate only 1 dollar and earn yourself a name spot in a rulebook of a game. Or, you can donate 15 dollars and also score yourself a nice t-shirt. Some projects will give you a completed copy of a game or comic book for a donation.
Check out kickstarter.com for details and also check out my brothers game mentioned above.
Also, if you like to browse boardgamegeek.com here is the link to his game there http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102927/dragonmage-warfare
Thanks everyone for checking it out and a HUGE thanks to anyone that supports my brother in his endeavor.
I wanted to update everybody that was interested in my brothers up-and-coming board game. With some previous issues now taken care of the updated game has been officially launched on Kickstarter.com
The board game is quite unique by itself but does have some slight influence from other games. If you are a fan of the board game Risk, or the card game Magic: the Gathering, then you are sure to love his creation.
For the full story and imagery pleasure check out his blog at http://dragonmagewarfare.blogspot.com/
To view this project on Kickstarter click HERE!!!
For those of you who don't know what Kickstarter is here is a brief explanation:
You can donate money to get certain things in return. For example, on some projects you can donate only 1 dollar and earn yourself a name spot in a rulebook of a game. Or, you can donate 15 dollars and also score yourself a nice t-shirt. Some projects will give you a completed copy of a game or comic book for a donation.
Check out kickstarter.com for details and also check out my brothers game mentioned above.
Also, if you like to browse boardgamegeek.com here is the link to his game there http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102927/dragonmage-warfare
Thanks everyone for checking it out and a HUGE thanks to anyone that supports my brother in his endeavor.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
My position on Texting while Driving
For those of you who have never driven in Logan, Utah during the busiest hours of the day, lets just say that its typically a nightmare. While I am sure many of the drivers of Logan are completely capable and intelligent there is a large number of drivers that have no respect or common courtesy whatsoever.
IF YOU DON"T WANT TO READ THE FIRST TWO STORIES, SKIP TO THE SECOND TO LAST PARAGRAPH FOR THE POINT OF THIS POST.
I decided to relax and let my wife drive this time and I was just sitting back and watching everyone. I watched a very large, lifted Dodge truck weave in and out of lanes behind us until he was beside us driving about our pace. As soon as he was beside us I noticed that he was in the process of texting (could have been web browsing for all i know). He did not look up at the car in front of him for a full 10 seconds (and I am being modest, it felt like much longer). The traffic at that particular time was actually pretty bad, the fact that he was weaving in and out like that took a little bit of bravery if you ask me and the whole time (as it seems) he was using his phone. A truck that size and lifted could rear end a car like mine (2010 Mazda 6) at 20 miles per hour and end up on top of my son in the back seat. Hmmmmm, wow.
Moments after the Dodge truck was long gone, my wife and I were stopped at a red light next a minivan that was full of kids (looked like 4 kids, could have been 1 or 2 more). The mom was texting while we were stopped which is no big deal since everyone uses the stop light as a great chance to quickly reply to someone. But when the light turned green, she hits the gas and I didn't see her look up for quite a distance. She finally looked up and slammed on her brakes and almost hit the car in front of her. I think she was wearing a seat belt but I couldn't see any seat belts on the kids. I wonder how much that text message would have cost if she didn't slam on her brakes when she did.
Driving home that night we were following a car on the northern end of town. We could see the glow of his phone from where we were. He had his phone up on the steering wheel and was texting in a position that he could still "quickly" look at the road between letters/words. Information I had read about eye focus time from near sight to far sight still took around .5 seconds. And, when you add a stimulation such as light your focus time can take just over a second to adjust back to far sight. I also slightly researched some statistical analysis of reaction time and found out that while driving your reaction times are much less than anyone would think. While you are thinking your reaction time is instantaneous, it is actually delayed by a ballpark average of .5 - .8 seconds. (of coarse I am not throwing in exact data but its close). Now, to add on to this we were traveling at 50 - 55 miles per hour. 50 miles per hour is 73.33 feet per second. I'll say that again, that is 73.33 FEET PER SECOND. If you have the the combined eye refocus time and the normal human delay time you are losing over 1 second on average and 2 seconds on an apparent worst case scenario. Worst case scenario you will run into anything within 146.66 feet of where you are. then you have to add in the stopping distance of the vehicle you are driving. So, I know that this particular person thought he was being safer by being able to look at the road quicker but in reality he could have caused quite the accident if circumstance would have been considerably less favorable.
Back before we all had smart phones and touch screens we could write a novel with one hand in 10 seconds without even looking at our phones. Now, there are not very many people that can do that on their current phones. I know several people that have had some severely close calls while they were texting and driving. I just don't want to see my wife or kid killed from some idiot who isn't paying attention to what they are doing. Besides, if you get in a wreck and they prove that you were texting, even if nobody is injured you can still go to jail for attempted manslaughter. Wow, it seems to me that I don't really need to drive this point any further. This is my position on Texting while Driving: It doesn't just make you unsafe, but it makes everyone unsafe. There are kids on the road, babies, grandparents, spouses, parents..... lets help them get home to their families ;)
IF YOU DON"T WANT TO READ THE FIRST TWO STORIES, SKIP TO THE SECOND TO LAST PARAGRAPH FOR THE POINT OF THIS POST.
I decided to relax and let my wife drive this time and I was just sitting back and watching everyone. I watched a very large, lifted Dodge truck weave in and out of lanes behind us until he was beside us driving about our pace. As soon as he was beside us I noticed that he was in the process of texting (could have been web browsing for all i know). He did not look up at the car in front of him for a full 10 seconds (and I am being modest, it felt like much longer). The traffic at that particular time was actually pretty bad, the fact that he was weaving in and out like that took a little bit of bravery if you ask me and the whole time (as it seems) he was using his phone. A truck that size and lifted could rear end a car like mine (2010 Mazda 6) at 20 miles per hour and end up on top of my son in the back seat. Hmmmmm, wow.
Moments after the Dodge truck was long gone, my wife and I were stopped at a red light next a minivan that was full of kids (looked like 4 kids, could have been 1 or 2 more). The mom was texting while we were stopped which is no big deal since everyone uses the stop light as a great chance to quickly reply to someone. But when the light turned green, she hits the gas and I didn't see her look up for quite a distance. She finally looked up and slammed on her brakes and almost hit the car in front of her. I think she was wearing a seat belt but I couldn't see any seat belts on the kids. I wonder how much that text message would have cost if she didn't slam on her brakes when she did.
Driving home that night we were following a car on the northern end of town. We could see the glow of his phone from where we were. He had his phone up on the steering wheel and was texting in a position that he could still "quickly" look at the road between letters/words. Information I had read about eye focus time from near sight to far sight still took around .5 seconds. And, when you add a stimulation such as light your focus time can take just over a second to adjust back to far sight. I also slightly researched some statistical analysis of reaction time and found out that while driving your reaction times are much less than anyone would think. While you are thinking your reaction time is instantaneous, it is actually delayed by a ballpark average of .5 - .8 seconds. (of coarse I am not throwing in exact data but its close). Now, to add on to this we were traveling at 50 - 55 miles per hour. 50 miles per hour is 73.33 feet per second. I'll say that again, that is 73.33 FEET PER SECOND. If you have the the combined eye refocus time and the normal human delay time you are losing over 1 second on average and 2 seconds on an apparent worst case scenario. Worst case scenario you will run into anything within 146.66 feet of where you are. then you have to add in the stopping distance of the vehicle you are driving. So, I know that this particular person thought he was being safer by being able to look at the road quicker but in reality he could have caused quite the accident if circumstance would have been considerably less favorable.
Back before we all had smart phones and touch screens we could write a novel with one hand in 10 seconds without even looking at our phones. Now, there are not very many people that can do that on their current phones. I know several people that have had some severely close calls while they were texting and driving. I just don't want to see my wife or kid killed from some idiot who isn't paying attention to what they are doing. Besides, if you get in a wreck and they prove that you were texting, even if nobody is injured you can still go to jail for attempted manslaughter. Wow, it seems to me that I don't really need to drive this point any further. This is my position on Texting while Driving: It doesn't just make you unsafe, but it makes everyone unsafe. There are kids on the road, babies, grandparents, spouses, parents..... lets help them get home to their families ;)
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