Newfire Creations

Just updated NewfireCreations.com to reflect new projects we've done here at Fastshion.com... Newfire Creations is the parent company to Fastshion. We offer a lot more than JUST screen printing and embroidery for t-shirts, hoodies, etc. We also offer custom graphic design, custom web development and much more. Head over and check out some of the sweet projects we've worked on. We are constantly trying to innovate and bring new services that we think might add value for our customers. Enjoy!

Launching www.VectorSector.us

We will be launching a new website called Vector Sector (www.vectorsector.us) It's still in development but we're hoping to sell our professional vectors to people that want to design their own t-shirts. We do a lot of custom projects for people and re-use elements a lot of times to save time and money. We'd like to pass on some of these tools to graphic artists all over the world to help them increase the quality of their fashion designs. Stay tuned!

Large Format Sublimation Printing

Here is an awesome video we ran across dealing with large format sublimation printing. It's something we hope to add to the shop soon. We need to first find out what type of drum based heating press is being used to transfer the image to the t-shirt. This process is known as sublimation printing and can only be done on shirts with a high polyester content. The lowest polyester content that should be used with sublimation printing is a 60/40 blend, so the majority should be polyester. The advantages of sublimation is the one-at-a-time type of process it involves. Also, it can have a very soft "hand," meaning the print isn't bulky. In fact, you can barely feel a sublimation print. Depending on the shirt type, sublimation inks, heating consistency, etc. you will come out with a vibrant or not so vibrant image. Cool video though!

Custom Silk Screen Printing Supplies

We get our supplies from all over the U.S. from different suppliers and vendors. However, there is one supplier we refuse to use... Pocono Screens. We recently ordered some jumbo screens and it took them 4 months to get here! 4 MONTHS! So, if you happen to stumble across this blog and you are looking for screen printing supplies, don't go to Pocono Screens, they take forever and are very unresponsive to e-mails.

Fastshion Custom Screen Printing Client Area

So we just implemented a new system for Newfire Creations (the parent company to Fastshion) that will allow clients and customers to track and view progress of orders, make comments, check screenprinting milestones and much more! This is an exciting piece of software and allows customers to login using any web browser. Using this new system, we should be able to offer better custom silk screen printing services to those in Boise as well as all over the nation! We're really excited if you can't tell. As our efficiency increases, we all save costs and turn-around times for your printed garments improve! We also hope to continually update this news with different upgrades to our facilities and production capacities. We are currently in need of an additional screen printing press so keep your eyes pealed for us.

New Photoshop App

As a professional custom screen printers we must constantly look for inspiration and technological advances that help us create. One of the programs that helps us do this is Adobe Photoshop. We just found out today that Adobe has launched their own iPhone app that allows you to edit your own photos. This app is great! However, it is free and you do usually end up getting what you pay for. We have found that Photogene is actually one of the better photo editing apps for the iPhone. However, we thought we'd share a little bit of this news with you.

The application will feature an opportunity to edit the pictures made by the smart phone and the ones, downloaded to Photoshop.com web photo hosting and sharing resource. Moreover, this application will allow users to easily download the pictures made with iPhone to this media library.
Free Photoshop version, created specially for Apple iPhones, unlike a full PC version, has only basic options and functionality, allowing users to rotate and crop the image, change the colors or apply several simple filters to the pictures. All the changes can be undone.

A good thing about this new Photoshop version is that it’s free of charge. The online photo hosting service at Photoshop.com is also free, as long as the users need no more than 2 GB for storing their images. In order to place more information they will have to pay the annual membership fee.
Free Photoshop Downloads (Free Photoshop version for Apple iPhones) here.

Busy Busy!

We've been super busy lately expanding the reach of Fastshion's parent company Newfire Creations. We have some exciting things in store and not only will we be offering custom screen printing and custom graphic design but we'll also be offering inexpensive and high quality and inexpensive custom website development through RapidWeaver Design. This site has a ton of RapidWeaver addons as well. We will also be offering different tutorial and blogging services (Coming Soon!). We're excited where the company is headed and trust us, you will be too! Permalink Boise Screen Printing and Graphic Design