What Makes the Riley Hopkins 360 the Pro’s Choice for Manual Printing
When you’ve been in the screen printing game as long as Ryan Moor, you know a solid press when you feel one. On a recent trip to Honduras, Ryan stepped...
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Is an RFU Mixing System Right for Me?
There are two main mixing systems you’ll find in a screen printer’s shop: Ready For Use (RFU) and Pigment Concentrates (PC) Pigment Concentrates What most screen printers think of when...
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What’s in a Name? 3 Tips on Choosing Your Business Identity
Is it time to make your screen printing venture official? Before choosing your business or domain name, here are three things you need to think about. 1. Does it Reflect...
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A Whole New World of Four Color Process
Stop! Now imagine the theme song from Space Odyssey 2001! Hear it? Good. Now you’re ready for the drop of our new Green Galaxy Water Based HSA Aurora Force 4 Color...
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Find the End of the Rainbow with Four Color Process Inks
Four color process inks allow a screen printer to recreate full color images with amazing photographic quality and pristine detail if they are separated, imaged, and printed correctly. So let’s...
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3 Questions You Need to Answer Before Becoming A Screen Printer
So you want to open your own screen printing business? Well, listen up, because there’s more to making it in screen printing than just the act itself! At Ryonet, we...
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Best Practices For Screen Printers in Breast Cancer Awareness Month
First and foremost, cancer sucks, a lot. Anything and everything we can do to better ourselves and work for a solution to fight and eradicate cancer is an endeavour worth...
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Diving Deep Into The World of PolyOne Wilflex
PolyOne. Wilflex. EPIC. RIO. Top Score. That’s a lot of names! We know we’re adding a lot of new products this year but it’s for very good reason. Each new...
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Should I Consider An Automatic Screen Cleaning System?
When reclaiming more than 150-200 screens per week you might consider an automatic screen reclaim system for a number of reasons. For most, automating this process could result in a...
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Screenprint Production
Arguably one of the best business reads of all time is Stephen Covey’s classic book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. If you haven’t read this work, get a copy…especially...
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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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Uses for a Film Printer & How it Could Positively Impact Customers
Have you ever thought about what else you could use your inkjet printer for when it’s not printing film? An inkjet printer, like the Epson T3270, is great for film...
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The Limitations Of A Manual Press (And How To Combat Them)
Screen printing is an attractive business to start. For under ten grand you can get an entire manual shop with a six color, four station Riley Hopkins press, conveyor dryer,...
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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,...
