As you probably know, we’re pretty passionate about eco-friendly screen printing here at Ryonet. So passionate that recently we launched a sister business, Allmade, to provide... moreAs you probably know, we’re pretty passionate about eco-friendly screen printing here at Ryonet. So passionate that recently we launched a sister business, Allmade, to provide you with a better choice in blank t-shirts. We’ve blogged pretty extensively about environmentally-safe practices you can employ to reduce your impact. But one topic we haven’t spent much time on is what to do with your old film positives.
Ryonet customer Brent Allman from Commonwealth Press, a dedicated and passionate screen printing shop in Pittsburgh, recently was faced with that very questions when he found a pile of boxes filled to the brim with old film positives. Like most screen printing shops, Commonwealth Press had been practicing the art of saving their film positives for reprints, sometimes for years.
Brent explained:
“What you may not know is that every job at CWP requires multiple film positives to create the stencil to print your artwork. Early on as a business, we would catalog these films in case the... less