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Riley Hopkins presses have played and will continue to a play a very important role at Ryonet. It all started in 2005 when Ryan and his wife Amanda took a trip to Gig Harbor to pick up Ryonet’s first Riley Hopkins Screen Printing Presses. Instead of finding a state of the art machine shop, Ryan […]

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In order to be able to screen print, you obviously need something to screen print on. People screen print on a variety of different things, but like most of our customers, you probably screen print t-shirts at least every once in a while. Ryonet started when Ryan Moor started to screen print t-shirts and other […]

“In this episode Cole talks with Brett Bowden (SGIA Chairman/Owner of Printed Threads) and Rogier Ducloo (CMO of Ryonet) about how Allmade is making a better t-shirt. This month the 3 of us, along with about 20 other screen-printers, went to Haiti to see the amazing LIFE facility where Allmade is created. Allmade pays 5X […]

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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 not only help your shirts get noticed, but will also increase the value of your shirts. Gold foil transfers are easy to do when you […]

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The Rio Mixing System is a Wilflex ink management system (IMS) that helps you mix a PANTONE® color.  In the following videos, Kevin from Ryonet teaches you how to use the IMS to create a a variety of PANTONE® colors. With this one simple system you are ready to mix any color that comes to […]

Disclaimer: We have been pouring ink here at Ryonet since the very beginning. As our company has grown and as we have gone through a Wilflex ink transition, we have changed our ink pouring facilities four times. We have also changed and increased our container size three times. Through these changes, we have made some […]

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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 masses.

Pre-press production workflows have benefited greatly from various advancements in technology and automation.  As an example of this, let’s talk about the automated workflow possible with the Saati ProCoat Dual Auto Coater and the Douthitt CTS30 wax printer. In the video below, you can see how we take you through the current darkroom set up […]

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If you’re part of a larger shop, or even if you’re still getting there, then the idea of coating 400-500 screens in an 8-hourt shift at a 2/1 coat must sound like a dream. The good news is that this dream can be real with the Saati ProCoat Dual Screen Auto Coater. This beast of […]

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We may still be sweating through the summer months, but Fall and Winter are just around the corner.  That means, time to pull out your hoodies, jackets, and sweatshirts! T-shirts are the most common garment that a printer will find themselves printing on. Many printers never stray from the world of t-shirts, so when a […]

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“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 is especially true with screen printing.  Screen printing is a multi-faceted profession, with a lot of different ways to do the same thing: Make a […]

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With so many white inks out there on the market, it’s sometimes hard to tell which white is the right white for the job you’re trying to do. In our last blog post, we introduced a new White Ink Comparison chart that we created to help differentiate the white plastisol inks we currently have available, […]