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Front office articles for owners and managers of screenprinting businesses. Tip and tricks for running the business. Invest in your future.
It all starts with innovative marketing and leads to sales. Learn how to market your shop and increase sales during the current economic downturn.
Learn about the latest trends and how to create art that pops! The art is often what makes the clients want to buy the product – make your art all that it can be.
It all comes together in the screenroom. A poor screen can ruin the very best art and all changes to produce a quality image. Lots of great tips and tricks.
Learn about techniques and proven methods for increasing quality, speed and productivity. Printers will especially benefit from the articles here.
How to prevent ink build up is up at the top of the list that experienced screenprinters ask when they attend the School of Screenprinting or when I am consulting with them in their shops. It seems that ink buildup is universal to almost everyone on the textile side of the screenprinting industry, due to the fact that we print wet-on-wet. Learn how to prevent ink buildup in this article.
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Most printers have experienced fabric discoloration at some time in their career. There are simple remedies that will alleviate this troublesome phenomenon from appearing in your shop.
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Super Bowl brings big bucks to those screenprinters who are licensed to produce products, but what about those who are not licensed by the NFL? Can you still make money off of the game? Sure you can! This article explains how you can print thousands of shirts for the Super Bowl or any big game. And you only have to sell three shirts to pay for a subscription to Solutions Journal.
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As the end of fiscal year approaches, many small business CPAs and bookkeepers find their stress levels rising. In only a few short weeks, these accountants know they’ll see silly bookkeeping errors in many of their small business clients’ books–errors that have meant the business owners have paid too little or too much in taxes. Errors that mean the business owner hasn’t really been able to effectively manage the finances of the business. Fortunately, these common bookkeeping blunders are easy enough to fix–if you know what they are and if you know the simple steps you can take to avoid making them.
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Time and temperature seem to be a considerable topic of screenprinters. So much of the screenprinting process is dependent upon these two variables. The curing of inks of inks is affected by all three of these variables. The printability of ink is affected by both the heat and cold, the exposure time needed for the hardening of emulsions, and the gelling of plastisol inks are determined by time, temperature and also the relative humidity. The storage temperatures for chemicals, screens, emulsions, inks and more are also affected by these variables. The list is endless!
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Corrugated signs have long been a mainstay of the small to medium size sign industry. Printing this material is different from many substrates as it is fluted and accommodations of the surface structure must be taken into account. Learn how to handle this difficult substrate in this article.
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The fine was levied against the company, and one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries Learning Curve Brands, Inc. for importing and selling various Thomas and Friends™ Wooden Railway toys with surface decoration that exceeded the then-applicable regulatory limit of 0.06 percent or 600 parts per million.
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Operating your business as a limited liability company? As you probably know, getting the QuickBooks accounting program setup correctly in your situation can be, well, tricky. But in a sense, that’s a good thing. The trickiness stems from the tax accounting flexibility that the LLC option provides.
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The School of Screenprinting has announced it’s 2010 line up of workshops. The school offers hands-on training in all aspects of screenprinting. Increase your productivity and earn higher profits. Bill Hood, screenprinting industry veteran, will teach you all that you need to know. Novices will have a complete understanding of the screenprinting process. Intermediate and advanced printers will leave with a more technical knowledge of the process.
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Proper screenmaking and indeed screenprinting begins in the art department. The primary mission is to create art and film positives that will allow the screenmaker to capture the image onto the stencil. Without the correct minimum line width the stencil may not be able to hold or reproduce the intended line. If the halftones printed to the film positive, are not the correct sizes or angle they may not be reproducible or they may produce an undesired pattern such as moiré.
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Ordering ink by the container size is very common in the United States, but in most other countries, ink is ordered by weight. This is even more complicated by the fact that there are three different sizes of gallons in the world today.
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The School of Screenprinting offers hands-on training in all aspects of screenprinting. Increase your productivity and earn higher profits. Bill Hood, recognized industry expert in screenprinting, will teach you all that you need to know. You’ll have a complete understanding of the screenprinting process.
