We’ve recently added ECOBAGS® as a supplier and ever since, our staff can’t stop fighting over the samples they’ve sent over. Our favorites? The Canvas Shopping Tote made from recycled cotton and the 100% Organic Canvas Book/Overnite Tote.  We asked Chris, our lead designer and resident tester why she loves hers, and she says, “They’re super sturdy and the perfect size.  I use mine for grocery trips or a weekend night-bag.”

***BONUS: Are you a Twitter user?  Tweet about the contest with hashtag #ecoprintworks and you’ll receive a second entry.

//***EDIT***// Congratulations to Jared Karnes from OneTribe Organics – winner of our free custom tote contest. Below are a couple pics of the finished product.

We work with a lot of up and coming designers to help create their own clothing lines – using our water-based inks to create custom printed labels. Think you’ve got ideas that the world should see? Give us a ring or drop us an email. We’re happy to talk over the process.

I’m not sure if we needed to travel this far to experiment with Permaset, but as Berlin is at the forefront of the screen printing industry, it wasn’t a bad excuse to take a little trip.

Below are a few pictures of us at the studio of Lindsey Ruben who runs a boutique couture print shop experimenting with Permaset. More to follow…

Ecoprintworks Berlin Permaset

We print with a line of 100% solvent-free, water-based inks from called Permaset Aqua.  While the parent company, Colormark, has been the market leader in Australia for over 40 years, Permaset Aqua has been a recent revelation in the industry, and really the driving force behind our complete adoption of a fully water-based printing system.

For many years printers in our industry (ourselves included) have searched for alternatives to PVC based plastisol inks.  There were water-based alternatives, but nothing we could find that would perform.  With most water-based inks that were available, color ‘opacity’ was severly lacking.  That’s why we were so excited to come across Permaset Aqua.

We use Permaset Aqua because:

• It is 100% solvent and distillate free
• It is free of heavy metals
• Softness and strength of print
• Colormarks’s commitment to the health of our environment and our industry

Read more here…

It’s been assumed for quite a while, but at our most recent Friday staff meeting, we decided to make it official:  Tango is our new office mascot.

Congratulations Tango.

Owners Peter Imai and David Whitaker get some local airtime when Randall White stopped by from the KCOY Morning Show.  Check it out here…