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Customer Highlight: Fauna Extreme

Mother of two daughters, Sarah Broyles decided to combine her creativity and passion for empowered, active women. The result? Fauna Extreme: A series of active tanks we’re printing that are inspired by some of the amazing creatures in our environment.
Here are some of the initial Mock-ups of the art. Stay tuned to [...]

Getting Ready for the Green Festival in SF

We’re getting ready for the Green Festival in Sf by printing up some goodies. We want to show how soft and vibrant water based screen printing can be, so we’re making some totes and other fun things to pass out. Are you going to be there? Send us a tweet – we’ll [...]

Custom ECOBAGS Giveaway — Congrats Onetribe Organics!

We’ve recently added ECOBAGSĀ® 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.Ā  We asked Chris, our lead designer and resident tester why she loves hers, and [...]

Create a Clothing Line with Custom Printed Labels

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. [...]

Ecoprintworks in Berlin

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 [...]

Recycled Hang Tags from Greenerprinter!

By popular request, we’re now offering recycled hang-tags from our friends at Greenerprinter up in Berkeley.Recycled hang tags are a great way to brand your apparel – as well as pass along important information to customers about the production characteristics of both the garment and the printing process employed to create your beautiful [...]

Go Urban

The Vallon Institute, a think tank out of Washington DC focusing on health and social sustainability has, in an effort to raise funds and awareness for their cause has come up with an adventure race called Go Urban. Go Urban, in their words, is a mash-up of competition, problem solving, teamwork, and urban adventure [...]

Ecoprintworks at the New Living Expo

EcoPrintworks made an appearance at the New Living Expo – a fun, green oriented festival that took place over the weekend in San Francisco’s south of market district.
It’s always good to get out and see what other innovators in the industry are up to. Klean Kanteen, Rainbow Grocery, and Urban Yogis – among others, [...]

Why Organic Cotton

The use of organic cotton is up – worldwide production has inceased 153% last year alone – and for good reason.
Less than 3% of agricultural land is planted with conventionally grown cotton, but that 3% consumes 20% of all pesticides used and 22% of all insecticides. According to the WWF [...]