Tips For Mixing Custom Inks Without A Pantone System
Custom Colors When customers ask for custom colors, most screen printers head to the lab to try their hand at mixing custom inks without a Pantone system, using some concoction...
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Getting Off The Press: Transition To Management
How can you answer emails, pay bills, order supplies and get screens ready for the rest of the week AND keep up with production on the press? You can’t! Well,...
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A Tip On Managing Customer Expectations
Make it Simple Keep your message clear and straightforward. Make it easy for potential customers to understand the value they will receive from doing business with you. Ever notice when...
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6 Basic Rules To Get More Screen Printing Customers
1. Focus on Exceptional Customer Service This may be the most important rule of business. We’ve all had crappy experiences with vendors. There is nothing worse than feeling like you’re...
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Is Your Scale Messing Up Your Custom Ink Mixing?
It seems like a simple process: You have an idea for a t-shirt, so you gather together your mixing pigments and bases, pull out your custom ink mixing formula and...
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Vocabulary Lesson: T-Shirt Edition
[Guest Post from Bella+Canvas. Check out their blog for more great garment-focused articles!] A t-shirt is a t-shirt, right? Not quite. When selecting a blank garment to print on, we...
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Can The ROQ Do One Stroke Plastisol Printing?
It has come to my attention that there are rumors about the ROQ being incapable of printing with one stroke for each color. It’s a preposterous assumption that such a...
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DIY Screen Printing
Where to start DIY: Screen printing is a great hobby for your crafty friends and family. But where do you start? If you just want to get your toes wet...
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How Finding Your Niche Will Increase Your Business x10
“Niche or be niched.” –Unknown Maybe you’ve heard that quote before, maybe not, but it’s truer in screen printing than in anything else. Screen printing is a very competitive business....
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Our Favorite Screen Printing Moments In 2014
We had a blast with our customers this year! Here’s the list of our top 5 favorite screen printing moments in 2014: Riley Hopkins Goes Black – Feb 12, 2014...
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Long distance printing at it’s finest – A World Record Breaking Event
It's been a whirlwind over here, with the Halloween buzz and all of our recent events having just ended. For those of you lucky enough to be in the Midwestern...
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A World Record Breaking Event
It's been a whirlwind over here, with the Halloween buzz and all of our recent events having just ended. For those of you lucky enough to be in the Midwestern...
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Make A Profit Screen Printing: The DIYer
Last week I wrote a post explaining how to Find your 'Profitability Sweet-Spot, and gave readers a chance to understand the profitability calculator we suggest using to calculate profits for...