A Beginner's Guide to Tagging Guns: Types, Pins & Needles
You need to attach swing tags to clothing, shoes, or handbags. It sounds easy—until you start sourcing the right tagging gun, matching fasteners (tagging pins), and ordering the correct tagging gun needles. The good news is that tagging equipment follows clear compatibility rules once you understand the main categories. This guide explains the most common tagging gun types, how fastener codes work, how to choose needle length, and when to use loop locks for products that can't be pierced.
Commercial Screen Printing: How It Works, Benefits & Applications
Commercial screen printing is a method of printing graphics at scale using thick inks that are placed on top of the material rather than soaking into it. The screen printing process itself is performed by transferring a stenciled design onto a flat surface using a mesh screen, ink, and a squeegee.
Screen Printing Mesh Exposure Troubleshooting Guide
Screen printing is a system: mesh, emulsion, light, water, ink, and pressure all interact. If any step in the stencil-making process is slightly off, the failure will show up later on press as ghosting, premature stencil breakdown, or constant pinholes. Understanding how screen printing mesh interacts with emulsion and exposure is the key to turning unreliable screens into stable, predictable tools. This guide walks through the most common exposure and stencil problems printers face with different meshes, and explains how to diagnose and fix them step by step instead of guessing in the dark.
