SCREEN PRINTING

To order the right garments for your screen printing shop, you have to understand different fabrics. While our previous blog post provides a primer on general fabric basics, there’s one type of fabric that warrants its own discussion: fleece.

Any screen printer who sets out to find a basic t-shirt to use as a go-to substrate will quickly be faced with the reality of garment selection: there is no such thing as a basic t-shirt.

Everybody makes mistakes, but in the screen printing business, mistakes can cost you money.

As a screen printer, you know that customers want their orders filled as quickly as possible with no sacrifice in print quality. Meeting your deadlines is key to keeping your customers happy (and coming back for more business).

“You have to spend money to make money,” but all business owners know that balancing costs is a must when it comes to maximizing profits.

Screen printing with white ink can frustrate even experienced screen printers. The same printing process you use with darker inks on lighter substrates can lead to blurred, fibrillated, heavy-handed or undercured prints when used to print white ink on darker substrates.

From time to time, screen printing will throw some challenges at you that leave you guessing. How can you overcome particularly difficult jobs?

As the saying goes, if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward. That’s as true in a screen printing business as it is in any business.

To be truly successful in screen printing, you need to work as efficiently as possible. This doesn’t only mean choosing the right equipment for your needs, it also means arranging your equipment and supplies in a smart, organized way.

Every industry falls victim to a slow season, and screen printing is no exception. For screen printers, usually the lull comes during the cold winter months, when people are busy with the holidays, the weather doesn’t call for t-shirts and the demand for promotional apparel for sports teams, summer camps and charity events comes nearly to a halt.

Successful screen printing depends on quality control. By following the right steps and using the right products, any screen printer can create quality prints that satisfy their customers.

When you think of screen printing, the first application that comes to mind is probably textile decoration. But printing on fabric only scratches the surface of screen printing’s capabilities.