Running an efficient screen printing shop starts with reducing your waste. A print shop generates many different kinds of waste, from misprinted shirts to leftover ink and chemicals to cardboard boxes and other containers. And eliminating this waste isn’t always a straightforward process; some screen printing byproducts are potentially hazardous and require special attention. How do you get it all under control?

Price setting is a balancing act. You need to set prices that maintain your profit margins for your screen printing shop but feel fair and reasonable to your customers.

Growing your screen printing business happens in one of two ways: You expand your client base or you expand the services you offer. While marketing your current services to new customers will no doubt help you increase your business, offering new products and services provides the best of both worlds, as you can sell more to your existing clients and attract new clients with your expanded offerings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“Green” living has gone beyond a fad and become a part of the modern fabric. While there have been garment brands offering environmentally friendly apparel – and screen printing shops specializing in green printing – for decades, eco-friendly clothing has gone mainstream.