Defining Your Values
Below is an excerpt from my book, “Made to Make It: A Guide To Screen Printing Success.” Learn helpful tips and tricks on how to run a screen printing business. Just...
-
-
6 Steps to Getting Your RAD Screen Printing Business Online
So, you have started screen printing and have begun supplying your customers with awesome tees. Now it’s time to get your screen printing business online and share your brand with...
-
The 3 Types of Marketing Emails You Should Be Sending
Over the past 18 months, I’ve managed close to a million email sends specific to the screen printing industry. Despite some popular new age belief, email is still the channel...
-
Labor Day Learning; How To Screen Print Series
“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself… The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.” -Warren Buffet The more you learn, the more you’ll earn… This...
-
Papillon Screen Print Manager; Port-Au-Prince
“Nobody wants to be a bagger for life.” Poverty Inc. 2017 What are you going to do for the people of Haiti by making shirts down there? Do you really...
-
[VIDEO] Heat Press Hero: Making Bad Prints Look Good
It’s a griddle! It’s a panini maker! It’s… a heat press! Every day heroes hide in plain sight, even in your print shop. Do you look at your heat press...
-
Exposure Exhaustion: What Went Wrong?
Let’s face it, exposure problems can be one of the most frustrating issues in the screen printing process. Yet, like anything else in life, screen printing is just a series...
-
Ghost Images: What Are They, and How Do You Get Rid of Them?
What Are Ghost Images? A ghost image is a stain in the mesh of the screen. This can occur from either the ink or emulsion used to create the image....
-
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?...
-
The Story of Riley Hopkins and Ryonet
The year was early spring 2005 and I was headed to Gig Harbor with my wife Amanda to meet the infamous Riley Hopkins and pick up our first order for...
-
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...
-
Exposure Calculator: How and Why?
Dialing in your exposure time is a bit like using the “Goldilocks Principle.” You know one extreme causes an underexposed screen, and another causes an overexposed screen, but figuring out...
-
Joystick or Micro Registration? An Extension of Your Personality.
“Should I get joystick or a micro registration print heads?” This has been a hot topic for Riley Hopkins manual screen printing press fans since he released the Joystick option...