Your Guide to Navigating Trade Shows
Trade shows are crazy. Thousands of people wander throughout the venue. Neon lights flash, feeling like you're walking down the Las Vegas Strip. Noises from machinery, conversations, and speakers pound...
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Why Should I Go to a Trade Show?
Lots of trade shows exist. When you think about them, do you imagine people up in your face, trying to sell you stuff that you don't want or need? Yeah, sounds...
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EZ Grip SqueeGee
In an ever search for the perfect tool, manual screen printers are constantly looking for new and improved squeegees to make manual screen printing, faster, easier, and more consistent....
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Get Your Prints Lit With Gold Foil Transfers
Why Gold Foil Popping your prints with gold foil transfers is a great way to spice up your shirts for the upcoming holiday season. The flash of the foil will...
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Creating a Bigger Film Positive For A Larger Screen Print
Your ambitions are big, and so are your screen print designs. But what happens when you want a full-size print and you only have access to a small output printer?...
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Simplify Your Recycle and Reorder Process With One Small Change
Hey Screen Printers, we’ve got another green screen printing tip for you! This video is all about helping you make your shop a little more Earth-friendly. All you need is...
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Turning Lemons into Lemonade: How to Reuse Misprints
Mistakes happen. Even the best of us occasionally produces a misprint or two. But there is a way to turn those proverbial “lemons” into lemonade. Reuse those rejects to save...
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Letting Go to Help Your Business Grow
Every business has to start somewhere; and in screen printing, that’s often with a single person who wears all the hats, from that of manager and marketer to artist, screen...
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The Problem With Taking Anything
One of the most incredible aspects of the screen-printing industry is the incredible diverse spectrum of customers that we can appeal to for our services. We literally can do anything...
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Designing for Sports Wear: Don't be Original
For a long time I attempted to create all of my designs from scratch, and for a long time I struggled trying to generate good designs. The story I tell...
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Quality vs. Quantity: Why it Pays to Spend More
As a guy who got his start printing shirts in his mom’s kitchen, I understand exactly what it’s like to bootstrap a business. When you’re still running in the red,...
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The Evils of Procrastination
I’ve been meaning to write an article that focuses on procrastination for some time now. Seriously! Don’t laugh. Somehow, I just keep putting it off. Other topics come up that...
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The Shop Riddle
Here’s a riddle for your shop: What has hands, but no arms? There isn’t a head, but there is a face without eyes. It can run, but never walks. What...
