Bill Wainner – (October 27, 1952) – Wainner began his career in screenprinting in 1967 at the age of 15.

While many printers start in their garage, Bill began printing peace symbols on fluorescent decal paper in his bedroom and selling them at school, where he reportedly earned a couple of hundred dollars a week. By age 17, he was working at Fabrical in Fayetteville, Arkansas. After outgrowing Fabrical, Wainner moved to Dallas, Texas, where he worked for The T-Shirt Authority.

Wainer is perhaps best known as the original printer of the Legendary Nocona Boot Series. He did the Rattlesnake, Bank Robber, Scorpion designs, and maybe the Gila Monster. When his shop closed, Wainner drove to California to turn the program over to Mark Coudray. That series became the foundation for the four-color process and, ultimately, Joe Clarke’s definitive book on Four-Color Textile printing, “Control Without Confusion.”

Wainner is a pioneer of process color on textile substrates in the United States and was considered a “technician’s technician, as the guy who could fix anything” when it came to automatic presses. When Precision introduced their improved registration system, called “Front and Rear Location,” Wainner traveled the lands retrofitting the older machines to the improved registration system.

Wainner joined forces with Don Newman of Stretch Devices to design and manufacture the Newman-Wainer Clamps for the Precision Oval. The clamp quickly became a best-seller and continued to be so until Precision went out of business and the market for Precision Ovals was reduced.