{"id":394,"date":"2007-05-08T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/octoberonline.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/08\/wanted-tshirt-printer\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T19:51:46","slug":"wanted-tshirt-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.october.co.uk\/latest\/2007\/05\/08\/wanted-tshirt-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Tshirt printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Ask any kid what they want to be when they grow up, and they&#8217;ll obviously reply a garment printer or embroiderer. Sure, there are one or two eccentric little Herberts out there who have their mind set on fire fighting and space travel, and I must confess that for a time, I wanted to be a Wizard; limitless power, a large wand and you get to wear a dress, no questions asked. But in the main, the lure of ink and thread is just too great, isn&#8217;t it?Well sadly, no. Fact is if your pride and joy expressed an interest in mesh counts, you&#8217;d have them straight off to Dr Fruitcake for a thorough inspection.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">So we have a problem; to begin with, nobody ever dreams of being one of us. And is doesn&#8217;t end there. You grow up, and for reasons you don&#8217;t understand, chance encounters, lost bets, you end up with a squeegee in one hand and a disk in the other. Now what do you tell people?<br \/>\nI was at a dinner party recently, which seems to be a kind of middle class going round to your mate&#8217;s house for tea, and had the good fortune to be sitting next to an Accountant. Standard ice breaker, I enquired about his employment status. Two hours of self promotion followed; his humble beginnings, the hardship, the victory over almost insurmountable adversity, and the inevitable rise to number crunching superstardom. Damn he was impressive, and throughout I nodded, cajoled and looked interested &#8211; I&#8217;m English and can do no other. It wasn&#8217;t easy for him, but eventually he had no choice but to ask me what I did for a living&#8230;&#8230;pause&#8230;.&#8217;I&#8217;m a T-shirt Printer&#8217;, I said&#8230;&#8230;and he said&#8230;..&#8217;Hmmm&#8217;&#8230;..and turned his attention to a profiterole.<\/p>\n<p>For him, our dark art wasn&#8217;t even worth a word; all he could manage, was a sound. I considered letting the tyres down on the new Mercedes he&#8217;d been explaining to me, but that would be small minded, petty and achieve nothing. As he waited for the RAC, I heard him making other sounds, ran my hand across the water based print I was wearing, and smiled.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a job going at my place at the moment, for a T-shirt printer, and how am I supposed to advertise that? No kids want to be one, and anyone who is one, may not relish the thought of staying one, &#8216;Don&#8217;t leave me here to die with ink on my hands Billy, say you&#8217;ll come back for me one day&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I might as well see if I can find Yoda in the jungles of the Degoba system, unless of course, we look at it a different way.<\/p>\n<p>We are at the very least purveyors of momentary happiness. The Doctors, the Teachers, and maybe even flat tyre boy, save a life, educate a child, and then to ease the strain pull on that favourite T, and just for a second, feel good about themselves. We add the colour, they feel the texture, their friend compliments them on their choice; only grains of sand I know, but that&#8217;s enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>At best we&#8217;re a mobile gallery, the last place the masses go to buy art; a vehicle for social and political comment; a billboard to shock, inspire and increase awareness; it was only a fraction of a fraction of a small percent, but we ran the world, and freed Nelson Mandela.<br \/>\nNow you might say that&#8217;s an overblown delusion of grandeur, you might even say &#8216;Hmmm&#8217;, but if you think I could have a point, and if you can print T-shirts because it matters, give me a call. I might have just the job for you, and maybe, we get to be Wizards after all.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Author:<br \/>\n<strong>Paul Stephenson<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"mailto:paul@october.co.uk\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><strong><font color=\"#338888\">paul@october.co.uk<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.october.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><strong><font color=\"#338888\">www.october.co.uk<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><strong>t-shirt printing, screen printing and embroidery<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any kid what they want to be when they grow up, and they&#8217;ll obviously reply a garment printer or embroiderer. 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