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Heavy Duty Screen Printing
Heavy Duty Screen Printing: Tips for Decorating Workwear

The market for workwear can be a golden opportunity for garment decorators. Construction, emergency and industrial workers not only require clothing that shows they’re part of a team, they also require clothing that keeps them safe.

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Show off Your Screen Printing with a Showroom
Show off Your Screen Printing with a Showroom

The quality of your screen prints doesn’t matter if you’re not showcasing your products in an attractive way to your clients and potential clients.

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Industrial Screen Printing
Industrial Screen Printing: A Bright Future Ahead

When you hear «screen printing», your mind probably goes to decorative applications: t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats and signs. If you’re a screen printing professional, you might be concerned about the future of your craft, as other printing methods like direct-to-garment printing have encroached on screen printing’s traditional turf. The good news is that there’s much more to screen printing than apparel and promotional items.

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Tips for Safely Disposing Your Screen Printing Ink
Tips for Safely Disposing Your Screen Printing Ink

Even though the ingredients of most textile inks have become more eco-friendly over the years, it’s important to remember that they contain certain industrial chemicals. The disposal of these chemicals is usually closely regulated and often strictly enforced.

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A Beginner's Guide to Buying an Automatic Screen Printing Press
A Beginner’s Guide to Buying an Automatic Screen Printing Press

Is your screen printing shop ready to upgrade to an automatic screen printing press? If you’re consistently struggling to keep up with customer demand on your current manual setup, or if you’ve hit the point where you feel you need to increase your staffing, it’s probably time to start seriously considering an automatic press.

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High Performance Screen Printing
High Performance Screen Printing: Taking Advantage of Silicone Ink

As the demands of decorating performance wear increasingly cross over into the world of fashion, it’s become necessary to develop new inks for screen printing. Given the strength and extreme stretch of many of these fabrics, it can be difficult to get the desired result, even with special additives. In response to these challenges, a number of ink manufacturers have developed silicone based inks.

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Keeping Your Screen Printing Customers Happy with Accurate Print Colors
Keeping Your Screen Printing Customers Happy with Accurate Print Colors

If you’ve ever tried to create the perfect color for a persnickety customer, you know color matching ink for screen printing can be a complicated proposition. Sure you have color matching systems to guide you, but many factors can interfere with color matching in screen printing.

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Set Your Screen Printing Business Apart with Finishing Services
Set Your Screen Printing Business Apart with Finishing Services

In the competitive world of screen printing, you have to offer services to your customers that make your screen printing business stand out. Finishing services — such as relabeling, hang tagging, bagging or specialty packing — could be what makes a potential customer choose your shop over a competitor’s.

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How to Get the Most from Your
How to Get the Most from Your Manual Screen Printing Press (Even in an Automatic Shop)

An automatic screen printing press is an exciting addition to any shop’s production floor. Automatic presses speed up production time, so press runs that used to take a day now only take hours. However, screen printing shops that adopt automatics shouldn’t be too fast to retire their manual screen printing presses.

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So You Want to Be a Contract Screen Printer
So You Want to Be a Contract Screen Printer: Some Important Considerations

You’ve decided to go for it and make contract printing a part of your business. You know it’ll be very competitive, so you’ve got to carefully evaluate what you’ll offer and at what cost.

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Preparing Your Ink for Screen Printing
Preparing Your Ink for Screen Printing

There are countless screen printing inks that claim to be «ready for use», but in reality almost all inks require some care before they hit your press. Whether you’re seeking the right consistency, the right color or a special effect, there are proper ways to get your ink ready for printing.

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Finding the Right Mesh Count
Finding the Right Mesh Count: The Impact of Your Screen Printing Press

There’s an old adage: «Keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole». Of course, with screen printing it’s sort of reversed, as it’s most important to keep your eye on the holes in your screen mesh.

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