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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7 Insider Tips To Get The Best Price On Screen Printing Materials
When I started Ryonet, I had NO clue about how handle purchasing for a business. It’s easy to get lost in the debate of how much to sell your own...
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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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Why It's Not Always The Best Idea To Display Pricing To Customers
This is an excerpt from the new ebook we will be publishing later in the year about starting a screen printing business. If you like this post about using pricing...
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3 Ways That Staying Lean Will Make Your Screen Printing Shop Thrive
(Guest post written by David Vahey, the creator of RyoArt and owner of MediaFly) Look I get it, you got into screenprinting for one of two reasons: you either wanted...
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How To Create A Killer Screen Printing Marketing Strategy
This is probably the #1 question people ask when getting into screen printing: Where do I find customers and how do I reach them? First, let’s go back to your...
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How To Choose The Right Press Configuration For Your Automatic
Manual printers, listen up! You all have terrible printing habits. I bet you’re thinking, “What does this have to do with picking out the right press configuration for your automatic?”...
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How To Build A Team That Makes You Love Your Business
We often get asked how to go about finding and building the right team for a screen printing business. This blog post comes from a book we are publishing later...
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How To Create The Business Part Of Your Screen Printing Business
You have found your niche. Now you can set or reset your screen printing business around that niche. There are many ways to set up a successful company for screen...
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Finding Your "Why" (How To Keep Going When You’re Ready To Quit)
The screen printing industry is not an easy place. It’s competitive enough for anyone to be ready to quit. The waters are bloody and if you don’t know why you...
