Upcycling Screen Printing Scraps with Appliqué Embroidery
Screen printers, we all know the struggle—test prints, misprints, and fabric scraps piling up with nowhere to go. Instead of tossing them, what if you could turn those leftovers into...
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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...
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Featured Screen Printing Shop: Printed Threads
Can you tell me a little bit about your screen printing shop? “Printed Threads was started in 2010 in my garage, so this year we are six years old. And...
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The Unexpected Ways Your Business Will Change From An Automatic Press
So you made the plunge and ordered up an automatic press. You’ve been briefed on what will be needed to ready your work space, electrical specs, air compressor and placement...
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Setting Up Your ROQ Press For Success
Let’s assume your ROQ automatic press is installed, and you’re itching to start printing. Before you ever touch ink to your brand new squeegees, you have a bit more work...
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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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Are You Ready For An Automatic Press?
You’ve been printing for awhile. Pounding away on your manual press all hours of the day (and night). You know that your productivity will increase with a larger press, but...
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How To Make Money With Your Pantone Color Mixing System
You’ve taken the Pantone® plunge! Maybe you’ve invested in a stellar Pantone ink mixing system, like the Green Galaxy® Fusion Mixing System, or maybe you’re an old-hat at mixing custom...
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In Action: Dye Migration Protection With Gamma Blocker Black
When it comes to printing on dark polyester, dye migration is enough of a beast to worry about without adding the complications of printing with thin water based inks. But...
