Lt. Col. Mark James Mayhew

Lieutenant-Colonel Mark James Mayhew (7 July 1871-1944), the Battersea Flour Mills proprietor. Lt. Col. Mayhew was born in Battersea, UK, to James William Mayhew (1839-1894) and Mary Stone (1840 – deceased). His siblings were  Mary Rose Mayhew (1971-Deceased) and Dora F. Mayhew (1876-Deceased). At the age of 23, upon his father’s death, he inherited great […]

Edward S. Pilsworth

Edward S. Pilsworth (18 August 1870 – 18 December 1936) Pilsworth worked as a commercial artist and engraving artist in San Francisco, California. Edward was born in Birmingham, England to John Patrick Pilsworth (1843-1920) a lithographer from Ireland and Odelia Delia Hanley (1847-deceased). His siblings were John C. Patrick Pilsworth (1872-1933), Henry Arthur Pilsworth (1873-1935), […]

Ernest Jere Busenbark

Ernest Jere Busenbark (11 September 1887 – 15 November 1982), an artist, author, illustrator, graphic designer, educator, and a published author. Busenbark was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana to James Henry Busenbark (26 March 1852 – 23 July 1934) and Martha E. Martha E. Strange (1858 – 1939) His brother was Claud Eldridge Busenbark (23 June […]

Ray Greenwood

Jessie Ray Greenwood received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts program in which he studied graphic design, product design, color, and printing technologies. After completing university, Greenwood went to work in a commercial screenprint facility. Stretch Devices, Inc. In 1993, he was recruited by Nancy Gray to […]

Daniel Sunderland

Daniel Sunderland, who was born in Mexico in 1975, Since 2006, Daniel is the financial and operational manager at Serigrafica Industrial y Comercial SA, a company based in Naucalpan de Juárez, northwest of Mexico D.F. The company has 95 employees and provides textile screenprinting services to its Latin American clientele. Sunderland has been a special […]

Paul Eisler

Paul Eisler (b. 1907 – d. 26 October 1992, London) was an Austrian inventor born in Vienna. Among his innovations relevant to the screenprinting industry were the printed circuit board and the rear window defroster. Eisler graduated in engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1930. Being Jewish, antisemitic German-Nationalist organizations prevented him from […]

Saul Ray Rueby (Rubenstein)

Saul “Ray” Rueby (Rubenstein) was born 14 Dec 1898 in Troy, Pike County, Alabama to Woodford Benjamin Rubenstein and Anna “Belle” (Paschtein) Rubenstein. He was married to Alice Belle (Marshall) Rueby, and he was the father of Ray Rueby, Jr. (1926-2019) and Alys (Rueby) Tracewell (1919-2006) He changed his name from Saul Ray Rubenstein to […]

Harry Gottlieb

Harry Gottlieb (September 23, 1895 – July 4, 1992) was an American painter, screenprinter, lithographer, and educator. Biography Gottlieb was born in Bucharest, Romania, on September 23, 1895.[1] He immigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis.[2] His family was Jewish.[3] From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. […]

David Ream

David Ream was one of the early innovators of the screenprinting process as we know it today. Screenprinting did not exist until frames with wire mesh attached were first used, albeit with the ink transferred by brush or a roller (see Patent 106874, H.W. Rudolf, 1870) through the open areas of the stencil. It was […]

Benjamin Walker

Benjamin Walker was one of the early innovators of the screenprinting process as we know it today. Screenprinting did not exist until frames with wire mesh attached were first used, albeit with the ink transferred by brush or a roller (see Patent 106874, H.W. Rudolf, 1870) through the open areas of the stencil. It was […]

David Signor Stouffer

David Signor Stouffer (1909-June 2,1988). In 1934, Stouffer and his wife, Alberta P. Fischer Stouffer (July 24, 1914-May 26, 1997), founded Stouffer Industries of South Bend, Indiana (dba Stouffer Graphic Arts), which traces its origin to July 1929 when Stouffer opened a commercial photo studio. The studio had expanded to include advertising, design, and printing. […]

Benjamin “Ben” C. Russell

Benjamin “Ben” C. Russell (1876-1941) was born on a small farm in Tallapoosa County to Benjamin Francis Commander (B. F. C.) Russell, a decorated veteran who served under Confederate general James Longstreet, and Sarah Henderson Russell. In the early 1880s, the Russells moved to Alexander City from a nearby farm now covered by Lake Martin. […]

Arthur A. Tracton

Arthur A. (Art) Tracton – January 17, 1935 – January 26, 2021. Art was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania. He graduated from Temple University with a B.S. in Chemistry. After serving in the United States Army, Art began a long career as a coatings chemist. He worked at several companies, including National Starch. He […]

Deborah Sexton

Deborah Sexton – Deborah started her career with Miller Freeman in 1980 as an editor with VNU. She was given the editorship of Impressions Magazine in 1981 and became Editor-in-Chief in 1994. When the the magazine moved from Dallas, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia in 2001 Deborah resigned her position. She began working as a freelance […]

Laura Unterbrink Maybaum

Laura Unterbrink Maybaum – was first introduced to screen printing as part of her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications Technology at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio. The classes and lab print projects developed a strong interest in screen printing, leading her to pursue an internship with Sefar America (formerly known as Tetko) in […]

Bhargav Mistry

Bhargav Mistry – The Managing Director of Grafica Flextronica, India’s leading manufacturer and exporter of screen printing machines and allied products. He is also the Director of Dhirubhai Mistry Institute (DMI) for Print Education, Research & Training, which achieved a double hat trick in international awards in FESPA and ASDPT competitions). DMI offers short-term courses […]

Andy Anderson

Andy Anderson’s history begins in 1968 when he was first inspired by the custom paintwork on motorcycles. This led to Andy building his first Harley, a 1949 EL, in 1969/70 at the ripe old age of seventeen. Andy painted it of course and the rest is history as they say. Someone saw that bike and […]

Beppe Quaglia

Beppe Quaglia is President & CEO of Quaglia srl Italy and the founder and CEO of Virus water-based inks. Beppe was inducted into the prestigious Academy of Screen and Digital Printing Technologies (ASDPT) in 2019. He serves on the Editorial Board of Screenprint Magazine and Revista Serigrafia. He is a popular presentor at numerous expositions […]

Danny Sweem

Danny Sweem has had a long and illustrious career in the screenprinting technologies. Danny attended York Technical College from 1985 to 1989, where he earned two Associate Degrees; Study Management & General Business
. After college, Danny began his career in retail as the owner of two small sporting good stores in South Carolina. From 1999 […]

Mark Gervais

Mark Gervais – Director of Screen Print, Ningbo Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd (2009-Present) Mark has worked passionately about the screenprinting technologies since 1976. His career began printing PCB’s (printed circuit boards) for Apple Computer. In 1987, he had made the move into textiles screenprinting. Mark worked with various large scale printing operations on the […]

Peter Walsh

Peter Walsh (born 1962) – Current Vice President at Nazdar SourceOne. Walsh began his career in the screenprinting industry in 1986, when he went to work for TAS Screenprinting Equipment in his native Australia. During the years Walsh worked for the company TAS became a major player as a manufacturer of high quality automatic textile […]

Colonel William (Bill) H. Donaldson

Colonel William (Bill) H. Donaldson (May 1864–August 1, 1925) – Donaldson founded The Billboard Advertiser (now Billboard Magazine). If you are wondering how the founder of Billboard Magazine is associated with screenprinting, we will get there in a moment. However, if not for Donaldson and his ventures, we might not have the International Sign Association […]

Mike Ruff

Mike Ruff – Ruff has been involved in the graphic arts industry since 1971 when he began as a sign painter and screenprinter. Since then, he’s founded two companies: Missouri Poster & Banner (a large-format screen printing company) and PGF Megafilm, a large-format prepress service bureau that produced film, plates, and screens for screen and […]

Rick Roth

Rick Roth – Rick started his career in the early 1970s, and eventually founded Mirror Image in 1988. He serves as President of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island company, a major award-winning shop for over 20-years. Mirror Image is located in a beautiful old mill building, which is a five-minute walk from Slater Mill, considered the […]

Bruce Ridge

Bruce Ridge is a California Polytechnic State University’s Graphic Communications Program graduate and remains a constant student and educator of the screenprinting and inkjet printing processes. His printing company was awarded several Golden Squeegee. Ridge has worked with Nazdar in Consulting, Product Training, Product Management, and Sales. He began and facilitated the Masterprint Color Training […]

Tamas Sandor Frecska

Tamas Sandor Frecska was born in 1939, Budapest, Hungary. In 1956 he participated in the Hungarian uprising against Soviet occupation and escaped to the West. He’s lived in the US since 1957 and graduated from Beloit College (1961/ BA in industrial design) and LaSalle University (business management). Frecska is the author of many critical technical […]

Albert F. Shore

Albert Ferdinand Shore (September 4, 1876 – January 17, 1936) was born in New York City, and was an American metallurgist. Shore was the Founder, President, Treasurer, and Director of the Shore Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. of New York City. The Shore Instrument Co. was located in the Jamaica area of New York City. […]

Jackie James

Anyone who was in the textile division of the screenprinting technologies since the beginning in 1977 fondly remembers Jackie James as the person in charge of the Imprinted Sportswear Shows. James was the Show Director for the first Imprinted Sportswear Show held in Dallas, Texas in May of 1977 and held the position until 1981. […]

Rich Hoffman

Hoffman is the founder of M&R Printing Equipment. He is responsible for many innovations in the screen printing industry’s textile and graphic segments.

Donald (Don) Newman

Donald (Don) Newman – President of Stretch Devices, Inc., is best known as the inventor and patented manufacturer of the Newman Roller Frame and its many related worldwide patented technologies. Don received his education at Penn State University, where he received a degree in structural engineering.  Don also pursued graduate research in psychophysiology and engineering […]

Geoff Mccue

Geoff McCue – He is a well-respected and well-known industry member who, throughout his career, has contributed to the industry’s advancement. His achievements include several product inventions – including a patented registration system, die-cut stencil systems, and several test films – although his most notable invention is the first digital screenmaking system that Gerber Scientific […]

Mark A. Coudray

Mark A. Coudray – (born December 13, 1954) In 1973, Coudray started his first screenprinting shop, Coudray Serigraphics, in San Luis Obispo, California, when he was nineteen in his family garage, and it is still in business today. The textile printing shop quickly became a World Class Operation, producing the world’s finest and award-winning textile […]

Michel (Caza) Cazaumayou

Michel (Caza) Cazaumayou was born on 2 August 1935 in Lion, France. He is an innovator in the screenprinting industry. Author of numerous technical articles and books for the screen printing industry. His book, Techniques of Screenprinting (1963) covers a broad spectrum of techniques on screenprinting. After attending university to study journalism and sociology in […]

Joseph (Joe) P. Clarke

Joseph P. Clarke – (1951-2019) – Joe Clarke was born in Youngstown, Ohio on Sept. 18, 1951. Entering the screenprinting technologies after graduating from high school in 1967, Clarke first learned his craft at McHenry Plastics. Two years later, he opened  Clarke’s Screen Printing. What followed was an illustrious career as an award-winning author and […]

Richard Greaves

Richard started screen printing in 1980 when he grew tired of working in the family landscape architecture business. He learned screen printing at Eder Manufacturing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he printed custom flags and T-shirts for the ad-specialty industry. After he left Eder, Richard worked as a consultant and helped found the American Institute of […]

Dale W. Kim

Dale W. Kim – Director at Murakami Screen USA starting in 1988. Murakami was established in 1965 and contributed to the growth and development of the screen printing industry. Dale operated out of the U.S. Headquarters for Murakami in Monterey Park, California, overseeing operations throughout the Americas. Through Dale’s leadership, the company was influential in […]

Jacek Stencel

Jacek Stencel, PASJA, Poland, with over 30 years of experience in special effects screen, offset & digital printing, plus printed electronics. He has over 22 International Awards for his screenprinting efforts. • President of Polish Screen and Digital Printing Association • Member of the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT) • Jury Member […]

George Dempsey Legh-Page, Jr.

George Dempsey Legh-Page (20 Mar 1948 – 21 May 2023) was a Regional Manager for Ulano for several decades. George was extremely well-known and admired by the many screenprinters he helped over the decades, as well as the distributors of Ulano products. George was married to Susie Fortwengler, the daughter of Joe Fortwengler and Jean […]

Michelle Moxley

Michelle Moxley is the Director of Innovation for M&R Print Companies. She attended Penn Valley College (1997-2002) where she received her AA in Graphic Design. She then received a BFA in media arts, and both 2D and 3D animation at the Art Institute of Washington, DC. (2002-2005). Michelle was previously the Research and Development Artist […]

Albert “Al” J. Petsy

Albert “Al” J. Petsy – (16 Nov 1928 – 30 Mar 2020) – Al Petsy was born in Canton, Ohio to the late Benny and Mary Baptist Petsy. After attending Canton South High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was a veteran of the Korean Conflict. Al worked for Ulano and SAATI as […]

Benjamin Henry Day, Jr.

Benjamin Henry Day, Jr (7 Mar 1838 – 30 Aug 1916), inventor of the Ben-Day process, a printing and photoengraving technique dating from 1878, an illustrator, and printer. Day was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey to Benjamin Henry Day (1810–1889) and Evelina Shepard (b. 1811). His father was an American newspaper publisher best known […]

Heinz Joseph Gerber

Heinz Joseph Gerber (17 Apr 1924–8 Aug 1996) founded the Gerber Scientific Instrument Company. Born in Austria, Gerber was imprisoned in a labor camp in 1937 at the age of 13. In 1940, he and his mother fled war-torn Austria, immigrating to the United States. After completing high school in just two years, he entered […]

Peter Leis

Peter Leis was born in Sydney, Australia in 1938. He started his career in 1953 when he began an apprenticeship in signwriting and attended a course at Sydney Technical College where he took a course in screenprinting. By the late 1950s, he was fully invested in the screenprinting trade, first as a stencil-cutter in a […]

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.500 BCE – c.400 BCE) was born in Ephesus, Ionia, Persian Empire, which is now lçuk, İzmir, Turkey as the eldest son of a wealthy family. He became an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. His placement in Whos Who in Screenprinting is due to Heraclitus’ concept of Panta Rhei, ‘everything flows,’ which led […]

Harold D. Wells

Harold D. Wells of St. Louis, Missouri, founded the Black Body Corporation in 1967. Wells created and patented the basic electric infrared emitter and heater that is still in a variety of applications today. The Black Body® trade name, which is still used today, was chosen because in physics the term “black body” is a […]

Wade Swormstedt

Wade Swormstedt was born to David Reid Swormstedt, Jr, and Winifred Bronson Swormstedt. He attended Boston University for two years (1978-1980) where he graduated with a BS in Journalism. Wade played #8 for BU rugby club that was 17-1-1 in his senior year, with triumphs in the 1980 Mardi Gras and Beanpot tournaments. Neiman-Marcus had […]

Tod Swormstedt

Tod Swormstedt is the son of David R. Swormstedt, Jr. He spent 26 years on the staff of Signs of the Times magazine, which was founded in 1906. He became the fourth-generation editor of the “bible of the sign industry,” following in his family’s footsteps. Tod parlayed all of his knowledge and contacts into a […]

Dr. Otto Bayer

Otto Bayer (November 4, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany – August 1, 1982 in Burscheid, Germany) was a German industrial chemist at IG Farben who was head of the research group that in 1937 discovered the polyaddition for the synthesis of polyurethanes out of poly-isocyanate and polyol. Dr. Bayer is recognized as the “father” of the […]

Charles M. Jessup

Charles M. Jessup, founded Charles M. Jessup, Inc in 1948. They were one of the oldest established suppliers to the commerical screenprinting technologies in the USA. Sea Jay Mfg. a division of Charles M. Jessup, Inc. was originally incorporated in 1969 as an equipment manufacturer. Sea Jay has discontinued manufacturing many of their products. however, […]

Xico Flores

Xico Flores is a specialist in textile printing with more than 20 years of experience. Flores is the founder of Estampadia, a high-end textile printing service in Mexico City, Mexico. Even though he has a Bachelor of Business Administration, he quickly found that competing on price brought his business to the brink of bankruptcy, so […]

Rick Boyd

Rick Boyd entered the screenprinting technologies in 1972 at All State Nameplate, cutting printed metal nameplates. A year later, he became the first employee of Advance Process. The second employee was Don Hazard. Boyd later went to work for Texas Screen and Sign in Dallas (Now Graphic Solutions Group – GSG) and then worked with […]

Jim Raymont

Jim Raymont is the Director of Sales for EIT LLC.  He joined EIT in 1993 and has been involved with the sales, marketing, and product development of EIT’s UV products since 1996. Jim co-holds four patents on UV measurement. Jim frequently contributes to articles on UV Measurement & Process Control and regularly presents talks, seminars, […]

Mike McEvoy

Mike McEvoy, who had his own screenprint shop for many years, started screenprinting in 1979 at the age of 14. Originally from Richmond, Indiana, Mike now lives in Monroe, Connecticut. In 1994, he co-founded Workhorse Products, a screenprint equipment manufacturing company. Mike and has co-developed dozens of screenprinting machines for the industry. He is currently […]

Ed Blazer

              Ed operated Blazer Screenprint Company at 1130 South Halsted Street in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Many will remember Ed as the printer of the Chicago Blue T-shirts. During 1994-96, Blazer hired industry consultant Joe Clarke, who developed a proprietary garment printing process which Clarke coined Photo Realism. Clarke won […]

James Martin

James Martin – Martin serves as Executive Vice President of Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, and Executive Secretary of the Supplier and Manufacturer Advisory Council. He has dedicated 25 years of distinguished service to the offset and digital printing media industry, previously as President and CEO of […]

Tim Quinn

Tim Quinn, the lead consultant for Nazdar, offers decades of experience presenting innovative solutions to printers for various technical processes, from prepress and workflow file automation to color control and print production analysis. He is certified for both G7 and G7 Process Control. Quinn has worked for Nazdar since 1997. In 2011, he received the […]

Debbie Thorp

Debbie Thorp is the Business Development Director at Global Inkjet Systems Ltd (GIS), a leading developer of RIP software, drivers, electronics, and ink system components for industrial inkjet printheads. Thorp has a BA degree in Modern Languages from Manchester University and an MBA from Durham University Business School. She has spent more than 25 years […]

Bernie Banks

Bernie Banks, Technical Expert in Industrial Screenprinting, United Kingdom. With over 40 years of rich experience in industrial & various other screen printing applications such as Electronics, Automotive, IMD, PCB, Graphics, Ceramic Decals & Tiles. Closely worked with Motorola’s design team in Singapore to deliver the world’s first phone with front and back cover manufactured […]

Kamlakar Wadekar

Kamlakar Wadekar, is the founder of Ace Printer, Mumbai and an expert in specialty screenprinting, UV special effects and offset printing with over 20 years of experience. As a passionate specialty UV screen printer, he keeps on experimenting new techniques & ideas. He revolutionized the use of UV special effect & print finishing in India. […]

Narendra Paruchuri

Narendra Paruchuri, CMD, Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India. Paruchuri is graduate of the Manipal Institute of Technology (1975) in Chemical Engineering. Paruchuri has over 40 years in offset printing, packaging with special focus on value addition by various print finishing techniques including screen printing. He has been instrumental in transforming his company with the […]

Artem Nadirashvili

Artem Nadirashvili, Midi Print, Russia, with over 30 years of experience in Screen, Digital, and Offset Printing and specializing in high-quality screenprinting for advertising, POP, posters, industrial and decorative applications,, and textile printing. Nadirashvili is the recipient of over 250 International Awards. Founder and President of the Russian Screenprinting Association Member of the Academy of […]

Mike Sanders

Mike Sanders has enjoyed a long and storied career in the textiles and printing industries, starting in 1973 with Cal-Pacific Dyeing, Finishing & Printing, and later founding Pacific Coast Fabrics (PCF) in 1995 with co-founder, Brian Vieweg. Mike and Brian proceeded to build PCF into one of the most respected, innovative suppliers of fabrics for […]

Ted Stahl

Ted Stahl is the Executive Chairman of the Board of GroupeSTAHL, a leading international manufacturer, distributor and direct supplier in the field of custom textile printing. Headquartered in Michigan. Their multi-national affiliates and subsidiaries include heat transfer manufacturing, sports printing supplies, heat transfer adhesives, and films manufacturing, heat press equipment manufacturing, artwork services and software, […]

Guy H. Robinson

Guy H. Robinson (1879-1949) a pioneer in the screenprinting technologies, was the founder of G. H. Robinson Screen Printing which produced Tire Covers in Chicago. Robinson was a pioneer in the screenprinting technologies and was credited with important developments in screenprinting during his life. He retired in 1949 and sold the firm. Robinson was born […]

Jerry Reid Swormstedt

Jerry Reid Swormstedt (1934-2015) – was born to David Reid Swormstedt, Sr., and his wife, Helen. A 1956 graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism, Jerry joined ST Publications in 1959 as an Assistant Editor for Signs of the Times magazine. In 1970, Jerry became editorial director of Signs of the […]

Rick L. Fuqua

Rick L. Fuqua has been in the screenprinting industry since 1990. Fuqua has a Teaching Degree in Graphic Communications and a Masters in Technology Education. Fuqua is the owner and operator of Real Performance Machinery L.L.C. (RPM) in Indianapolis, Indiana, which manufacturers automatic screenprinting presses. A separate division of the company, Rebuilt Machine Works division […]

Ford Bowers

Ford Bowers – Ford Bowers is president and CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, formerly the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA). PRINTING United Alliance is the combined entity of SGIA, Printing Industries of America (PIA), and NAPCO Media. Ford entered the printing industry in 2006 as an account manager for Miller Zell, a leading retail/POP print […]

Saul Ray Rueby, Jr.

Saul Ray Rueby, Jr. – (1 Sep 1926 – 7 Apr 2019) – Born in Michigan City to Saul Ray Rueby (Rubenstein), Sr., Indiana, Rueby graduated from Monroe High School in 1944 and entered the Army Air Corps in W.W.II until 1946. Ray attended the University of Rochester and earned a BA in English. While […]

Jon Weiss

Jon Weiss [b March 17, 1955] is a dinosaur in the screenprinting technologies. Jon got his start in the family owned business, Buffalo Shirt Factory, located in Clarence, New York, in June 1974 when his father made him a Vice President and Production Manager. John grew the company from a family owned business with 5 […]

Eugene Cook Bingham

Eugene Cook Bingham (8 December 1878 – 6 November 1945) was a professor and head of the department of chemistry at Lafayette College. Bingham made many contributions to rheology, a term he is credited (from a suggestion by colleague, Markus Reiner) with introducing in 1920. He was a pioneer in both the theory and practice […]

Joseph G. Schickel

Joseph G. Schickel received a B.S. in Graphic Communications Technology, California University of Pennsylvania and his Master of Industrial Education from Clemson University. Currently he is the chair of the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology, where he teaches courses in Advanced Screen Printing Techniques, Advanced Flexographic Techniques, Digital Publishing, Flexographic and Package Printing Processes, […]

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger […]

Max Ulrich Schoop

Max Ulrich Schoop (born April 10, 1870 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland; died February 29, 1956 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a Swiss inventor who introduced the metal spraying process in 1906 and developed various aluminum welding processes. Schoop obtained a patent to flame-spray metal onto a board through a patterned mask, which led others to find new […]

Donald (Don) Burl Pettry

Donald (Don) Burl Pettry (Mr. Plastisol) was born December 10, 1928, in Akron, Ohio, to John Sidney Pettry and Emeline Haught Pettry. Pettry served in the U.S. Army and earned his degree in Chemistry at Abilene Christian College. He married Virginia Iris Spence of Poteet, Texas, in 1949, and they resided in Pennsylvania where he […]

Lon Winters

Lon Winters attended Doane University in Crete, Nebraska, where he received his BS and BA, studying Mathematics and Fine Arts in 1989. After university, Lon worked at Ocean Pacific, where he began in the screen reclaim area and worked his way up as he learned the screenprinting process. At the age of 21, Lon Winters […]

Henry Arthur Pilsworth

Henry Arthur Pilsworth (1873-1934) – A commercial artist working in New York, Oregon, and California. Pilsworth was born in Birmingham, England to John Patrick Pilsworth (1843-1920) a lithographer from Ireland and Odelia Delia Hanley (1847-deceased). His siblings were Edward S. Pilsworth (1870-1936), John C. Patrick Pilsworth (1872-1933),  Harry Pilsworth (1874-deceased), Delia Francis Pilsworth (1876-1960), Eugene […]

Mitch Different

Mitch Different – Art Director for Sunline Products in Houston (Katy), Texas. Different has been producing award winning art for the textile industry in 1980. He begin a freelance illustrator and designer with commissioned for a variety of substrates requiring high end graphics in a variety of styles. Realism, cartooning, digital graphics and illustration. Specializing […]

Takeshi Terao

Takeshi Terao, Yoshikawa Chemical Co., Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Tetsuo Unno

Tetsuo Unno, Unno Giken Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Keiichi Suzuki

Keiichi Suzuki, Toyoink Mfg Co., Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Toushou Hongawa

Toushou Hongawa, Toyo Corporation, Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages the exchange […]

Minoru Ohta

Minoru Ohta, Tokyo Process Service Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Chujiro Seki

Chujiro Seki, Tokai Shoji Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Tahei Sawanobori

Tahei Sawanobori, Teikoku Printing Inks Mfg. Co., Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Masaya Itoh

Masaya Itoh, Tanaka Chemical Industries, Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Kiyohiro Takagi

Kiyohiro Takagi, Sonocom Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Hideo Watanabe

Hideo Watanabe, SHIN-EI Industrial Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Yuichi Torii

Yuichi Torii, Seripack Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Tetsuo Hiraguri

Tetsuo Hiraguri, Seiko Advance Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Akira Sawada

Akira Sawada, Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation, Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Takayuki Kumazawa

Takayuki Kumazawa, Process Rabo Micron Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Tetsuro Emori

Tetsuro Emori, Nippon Tokushu Fabric Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Kano Shimizu

Kano Shimizu, Nippon Bunkaseiko Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Masayuki Itagaki

Masayuki Itagaki, Newlong Seimitsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Takaki Tamamizu

Takaki Tamamizu, Mishima Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages the […]

Kazuro Nagase

Kazuro Nagase, Mino Group Co., Ltd. Tokyo Branch, Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Kazumasa Noda

Kazumasa Noda, Mesh Corporation Tokyo Branch, Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Hideki Kurita

Hideki Kurita, Kurita Kagaku Kenkyujo Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Shinji Kikuchi

Shinji Kikuchi, Kuranami Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Motoji Uehara

Motoji Uehara, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Inc., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Hiroshi Koyama

Hiroshi Koyama, Jujo Chemical Co., Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Yoichi Tamegai

Yoichi Tamegai, Jobu Shikizai Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Yasunao Ito

Yasunao Ito, Ito Screen Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Tadashi Obayashi

Tadashi Obayashi, Harumido Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Masahiro Enomoto

Masahiro Enomoto, Hashiba Grand Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Yasuhito Fukushima

Yasuhito Fukushima, Goo Chemical Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Chikako Fujita

Chikako Fujita, Fujita-Kohan Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages the […]

Eiichi Hashimoto

Eiichi Hashimoto, Fujikagaku Co., Ltd., Machine supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Daisuke Shiga

Daisuke Shiga, Fujifilm Graphic Systems Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association […]

Ryuta Eguchi

Ryuta Eguchi, Eguchi Kohan Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Yasuyuki Baba

Yasuyuki Baba, Bon Mark Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Katsuya Suzaki

Katsuya Suzaki, Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Shigeki Okubo

Shigeki Okubo, Asahi Shashin Seihan Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Kiyoshi Kagimoto

Kiyoshi Kagimoto, Asada Mesh Co., Ltd., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages […]

Hiroshi Ohtaka

Hiroshi Ohtaka, NBC Meshtec Inc., Supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The association encourages the […]

Hiroshi Kubo

Hiroshi Kubo, Nakanuma Art Screen Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Keiithi Nagase

Keiithi Nagase, Nagase Screen Printing Research Co., Ltd., Ink supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. […]

Nobuhiro Ishikawa

Nobuhiro Ishikawa, Mitani Micronics Co., Ltd., Stencil making supplier to the screenprinting industry. A member of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The association’s purpose is to contribute to development of screen printing market as well as of member companies. The […]

Masami Koita

Masami Koita – President of Mino Shoji Co., Ltd. MinoShoji is a manufacturer of screenprinting equipment; full automatic and semi-automatic presses, capable of printing substrates under 100um in both clam-shell and flatbed models, curved surface presses, pad printing equipment, UV curing units, anti-static cleaning machines, ink mixers, squeegee sharpeners, box type dryers and drying racks, […]

Hirotaka Murakami

Hirotaka Murakami – President of Murakami Screen. Murakami established the company in 1965 and has been contributing to the growth and development of the screen printing industry ever since. Murakami is a Director of the Japanese Association of Screen Printing Suppliers (JASPS), which is the only assembly of screenprinting manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The […]

Thomas A. McKeever

Thomas (Tom) A. McKeever (c.1942-2011) Design Engineer for Budd Co. and Stretch Devices, Inc. of Philadelphia, PA., where he served as Managing Director and Head of Engineering. McKeever’s name appears on many patents issued to Stretch Devices. He was the inventor of the Stretch Devices LOC Gauge, Patent No. US5765476, filed Oct 15, 1996, among […]

Anthony (Tony) Velonis

Anthony Velonis (23 October 1911 – 29 October 1997) – He studied in the College of Fine Arts at New York University. After attending university, Velonis became a painter and designer. He married Eliza Amidon and they had four children. In 1934 he began working for the Civilian Work Administration (CWA) as a poster artist, […]

Beatrice (Bea) Mandelman

Beatrice (Bea) Mandelman – Born December 31, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey, from an early age Bea was determined to be an artist. At age 12, she began taking classes at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. In the 1930s, she attended Rutgers University, the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and […]

Frances “Jean” Fortwengler

Frances Jean Fortwengler (February 19, 1927 – January 21, 2008) – Jean was born in Louisville, Kentucky to the late Nola and Jessie Fesler. Her father was a coal miner and worked in road construction as a bulldozer operator, and was transferred to many cities, during Jean’s childhood. Her early years helped shape the woman […]

Joseph “Joe” A. Fortwengler

Joseph A. Fortwengler (September 26, 1925 – September 26, 2010) was born to the late Herman Fortwengler and Josephine Bencken Fortwengler in Louisville, Kentucky. As the youngest of eight children, Joe proudly served his country in the Navy during World War II and was present at the famous battle of Iwo Jima. After returning from […]

Alexey Parygin

Alexey Parygin, born on December 2, 1964, in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation. Art historian, art critic, professor of drawing and painting. Works as an art-director of the printing establishment. Well-known as a painter, also works on graphic arts, silkscreen. Member of Artists Union of Russia (Saint-Petersburg), member of Art Critics and Art Historians Association (AIS). Author […]

Herbert Mayrhofer

Herbert Mayrhofer (1943-2019), Engineer and CEO of MHM. Mayrhofer was arguably the most brilliant engineer in the screenprinting technologies. He designed the MHM press in the early 1980s and set the standard for automatic presses. The MHM press quickly grew to be accepted as gold standard for automatic textile presses worldwide. In 1993, MHM hired […]

John Provost

John Provost is an independent digital textile printing consultant and technical editor of Digital Textile magazine. He was 2009’s joint winner of the Henry E. Millson Award for Invention, for the development of the first commercially available inkjet printer for textile fabrics, in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. The award is presented annually by […]

Kevin Myers

Kevin Myers is the Global Digital Printing business manager of Huntsman Textile Effects based in Basel, Switzerland. In this role, he manages a dedicated “ink” team of fifteen people fully focused on digital textile printing and who are responsible for research & technology of inks, pilot production and sales & marketing. Mr. Myers began his […]

Dr. Mickael Mheidle

Dr. Mickael Mheidle is widely considered one of the preeminent developers of digital ink technologies for both textile and non-textile applications. Dr. Mheidle joined Sawgrass Technologies in November 2006 as CEO of Sawgrass Europe.  Prior to joining Sawgrass, he served as the global head of new business applications for Ciba Specialty Chemicals where he focused […]

Paolo Milini

Paolo Milini – Sales director of MS Italy Milini joined the family business after completing his education in 2003 and engaged in developing the market for the company’s small T-shirt printing machines such as the MS-One, later moving on to concentrate on sales of the wide-format MS-JP5 and the latest MS-JP6. However, his interest in […]

John Scrimshaw

John Scrimshaw – Editor at World Textile Information Network World Textile Information Network (WTiN)was formerly World Textile Publications Ltd – the world’s biggest textile publisher. Initially handling magazines in the apparel and fashion-technology sectors, he assumed the editorship of the long-established International Dyer magazine in 2001 and was responsible for piloting the spin-off Digital Textile […]

Dr. Qinguo Fan

Dr. Qinguo Fan – Professor of Materials & Textiles at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dr. Quinguo Fan earned his Ph. D in Color Chemistry from the University of Leeds, UK in 1995. He received an MS and a BS in Textile Chemistry from China Textile University (now DongHua University), Shanghai, China in 1988 and […]

Alan Noble

Alan Noble – Managing Director of Cameron Balloons. Cameron is the world’s largest manufacturer of hot-air balloons and the only company to have built manned balloons that have circumnavigated the globe non-stop. He is a qualified hot-air balloon, gas balloon, hot-air airship, gas airship and fixed wing pilot. Approximately six years ago Cameron Balloons experimented with […]

Zhu Junwei

Zhu Junwei – Marketing Manager, Tianjin Fudong Printing Materials Company Born in 1979, he graduated in the college of construction costs management in Tianjin University. He joined in Tianjin Fudong Printing Materials Company since May 2002, taking responsibility of the marketing and hold the post of marketing manager now. Since 2002, Junwei has made a […]

Lv Zengxing

Lv Zengxing – Chief Engineer, Dongguan Changlian New Materials Technology CO. LTD Lv Zengxing graduated from Zhongshan University in 1981. His specialty is Polymer Chemistry and physics with Master degree and Associate Professor.  He was employed in Yunnan Province Textile Science Institute , and in Kunming University. He has been the Chief Engineer in Dongguan […]

Qiu Deqiang

Qiu Deqiang – CEO, Rugao Tianyuan Finery Printing Co.,Ltd A member of CSGIA textile printing committee. He attaches great importance to the innovation of their products and management, and has been making rapid progress for his company in recent years. He was newly elected to be an executive director of CSGIA committee. Contact details: tel:86 […]

Zheng Junming

Zheng Junming, – Managing Director, Denbishi Fine Chemical (Kunshan) Co., Ltd  Born in November 1963, join in CSGIA in 1994, Mr. Zheng Junming serves as the vice Chairman of CSGIA and the Chairman of CSGIA technology working committee. He is the managing director of Denbishi Fine Chemical (Kunshan) Co.,Ltd. He graduated in the college of […]

Dr. Michael T. Fralix

Dr. Michael T. Fralix, Ph.D. – President and CEO [TC]² For the last twenty-two years, Dr. Mike Fralix has worked in a variety of capacities at [TC]² and has provided guidance to hundreds of sewn products companies.  With thirty-four years of experience in apparel manufacturing, research and development, operations and corporate management, he leads the […]

Duncan MacOwan

Duncan MacOwan – Head of Events and New Media, FESPA Duncan joined FESPA in January 2010 as Conference and Events Manager, from William Reed Business Media. In early 2011, Duncan was promoted to his current position to reflect the expansion of his role in both events and online. Duncan’s vast experience in events, international business […]

Anders Nilsson

Anders Nilsson – FESPA Board Member and Past President Anders represents the Nordic region on the FESPA board of directors.  He joined the Board in 2000 and was FESPA President from 2007 until FESPA 2010. He is responsible for all activities of FESPA as President and also sits on the FESPA Finance Committee. Active in […]

Joel Taylor

Joel Taylor – Founder, PSI Printing Having started PSI Printing in 2006, Joel quickly became aware that in order to be an industry leader he must first be a pioneer. Henceforth, stepping away from what could be called traditional methods, Joel turned to the Internet. He proceeded in taking his business to new heights after […]

Mitsutaka Yoshida

Mitsutaka  Yoshida – Overseas Sales Manager, NBC Mitsutaka  Yoshida has been involved in the Screen Printing industry for 14 years. Originally working on the production control team and then moving into domestic sales for Japan. Now as Manager of the Overseas Sales Division, he has grown to a leading Sales and Marketing specialist for NBC […]

Paul Machin

Paul Machin – Machin Consultancy Paul started in the printing industry in 1970 having already spent 15 years in the surface coating industry and is a qualified chemist and lawyer. For 20 years he was responsible for regulatory affairs at FujiFilm Sericol and eight years he headed their Environmental Services Division. While at Sericol he […]

Frits Beurskens

Frits Beurskens – President, Asian Printmedia Consultancy Group Inc Frits combines over 30 years of experience in graphic industries worldwide. He is a known expert in the field of standardization especially on ISO-12647. He was highly involved with Asia’s first ISO-12647 certifications in May 2007 in the Philippines. After being active for 15 years in […]

Eliot Elisofon

Eliot Elisofon (April 17, 1911 – April 7, 1973) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. He was the photographer of the first printed T-shirt to be shown in mass media. And, while Elisofon may be remembered by those in the screenprinting technologies for that one photograph, he was quite well known for his many […]

Michael Green

Michael Green – The President and C.E.O. of A.W.T. World Trade Group (which is comprised of A.W.T. World Trade, Inc., American M&M Screen Printing Equipment Co., and Graphic Parts International, Inc.) of Chicago, Illinois. Green recently gave the following statement about the company… A.W.T. World Trade, Inc.’s primary mission has always been to provide the […]

Sheldon Green

Sheldon Green – The co-founder, with his brother Melvin “Mel” Green, in 1949 of Advance Process Supply, American Screen Printing Company, A.W.T. World Trade Group (which is comprised of A.W.T. World Trade, Inc., American M&M Screen Printing Equipment Co., and Graphic Parts International, Inc.) of Chicago, Illinois. Michael Green, the son of Sheldon Green, is […]

Melvin “Mel” Green

Melvin “Mel” Green – (1921 – 2012) – The co-founder, with his brother Sheldon Green, in 1949 of Advance Process Supply, American Screen Printing Company, A.W.T. World Trade Group (which is comprised of A.W.T. World Trade, Inc., American M&M Screen Printing Equipment Co., and Graphic Parts International, Inc.) of Chicago, Illinois. Green held over 100 […]

Thomas B. Hood

Thomas B. Hood (1911-1997) – born to George Thomas Hood (1880 – 1962) and Estella Mae (nay Carroll) Hood (1882-1969), into a family of farmers and ranchers who moved to Cedar Hill, Texas from Tiptonville, Tennessee. Hood grew up in Cedar Hill, Texas. Hood began his career in the graphic arts as a young man […]

Paul L. Manning, Jr.

Paul L. Manning, Jr – Currently the Vice President of Sales for Albert Basse Associates (ABA). The company was founded by Albert Basse, Sr. in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. ABA is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen printed displays and graphic solutions — both large and small format — for a […]

Edwin E. Basse

Edwin E. Basse – Currently the Sales and Account Manager of Albert Basse Associates (ABA). The company was founded by Albert Basse, Sr. in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. ABA is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen printed displays and graphic solutions — both large and small format — for a wide […]

Albert “Chip” Basse III

Albert “Chip” Basse III – Currently the President of Albert Basse Associates (ABA). The company was founded by Albert Basse, Sr. in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. ABA is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen printed displays and graphic solutions — both large and small format — for a wide range of […]

Ellen Basse-Dietz

Ellen Basse-Dietz – Upon the passing of her husband, Albert “Al” Basse, Jr., in 1976, Ellen joined the senior managment team of Albert Basse Associates (ABA) as Chief Executive Officer. The company was founded by Albert Basse, Sr. in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. ABA is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen […]

Albert “Al” Basse, Jr.

Albert “Al” Basse, Jr. – The graduate of Brown University, upon returning from Korea in 1963, took the helm of his father’s company – Albert Basse Associates (ABA). The company was founded by Albert Basse, Sr. in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. ABA is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen printed displays […]

Albert Basse, Sr.

Albert Basse, Sr. – The founder of Albert Basse Associates in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1928. The company is one of North America’s preeminent screenprinting facilities.  They provide screen printed displays and graphic solutions — both large and small format — for a wide range of commercial and retail category leaders. The company is committed to […]

Wim Zoomer

Wim Zoomer (March 28, 1955 – December 22, 2022) was from Sibculo, Overijssel, Netherlands, eventually living in Loenen, Gelderland, Netherlands. He attended HTS Hengelo University. Wim was a technical author and managed a consulting and communication business concerning all aspects of screenprinting technology for both graphic and industrial, including printed electronics applications. He wrote advertorials, […]

Ad Versteeg

Ad Versteeg – Active in the screen printing industry since 1968, Versteeg has worked as a screenprinter in the graphics industry with companies as widespread in Holland and New Zealand. Later he was a teacher of screen printing techniques and the general editor of a screenprinting magazine for almost 18 years. For some seven years, […]

Johnny Shell

Johnny Shell – Was the Vice President of the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association’s Technical Services Division, directing and coordinating the department’s activities. Shell taught SGIA workshops and wrote technical articles for various industry publications, including the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association Journal Magazine. He also conducted seminars at several industry events, including the Specialty Graphic Imaging […]

James Ortolani

James Ortolani – (born 1957) – Since 1992, Ortolani has worked for HIX Corporation. He is currently the Domestic Sales Manager for the HIX Corporation. During that time, he traveled to 22 countries, presenting screenprinting seminars. He has traveled to 22 countries setting up screen-printing operations and presenting screen-print-related seminars. As a long-time innovator in […]

J. R. Whinfield

J. R. Whinfield – co-producer of the first thermoplastic polyester fiber along with J. T. Dickson at Calico Printers Association in Great Britain between the years 1939 to 1941. The two produced a polyester fiber by condensation polymerisation of ethylene glycol with terephthalic acid. Although the aliphatic polyesters prepared by Wallace Carothers of DuPont during […]

J. T. Dickson

J. T. Dickson – co-producer of the first thermoplastic polyester fiber along with J. R. Whinfield at Calico Printers Association in Great Britain between the years 1939 to 1941. The two produced a polyester fiber by condensation polymerisation of ethylene glycol with terephthalic acid. Although the aliphatic polyesters prepared by Wallace Carothers of DuPont during […]

Alex Zuckermann

Alex Zuckerman – (born January 1947) in Paris, France. His father was a U.S. Army Colonel stationed in Europe during WWII. Zuckerman studied at the Paris IEP Political Sciences Institute and graduated in 1968. He spent the next several years of his professional experience outside of France, mainly in the USA, Israel, and Germany. He […]

Bert Zahn

Bert Zahn – Illustrator, Author, Educator. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zahn pioneered graphic arts development and training. Bert Zahn led an exciting life. As a young man, he learned sign-painting techniques. During World II, Zahn joined the US Navy and taught screenprinting to military personnel as a fast and efficient process for printing posters and […]

Norman Wolcott

Norman Wolcott started in the screenprinting industry in 1979 and first worked for Harshaw. Wolcott is the Chairman of the Board for Nor-Cote International, Inc. and has been with the company since 1985. Norcote International, Inc. is a premier manufacturer of UV Curable Screenprinting inks and emulsions. They began as a one-man company in 1976 […]

Francis Willette

Francis Willette – Historically credited with the printing of the first screen printed item in the United States. A Detroit, MI screen printer who printed felt pennants during the early part of this century and was credited as the pioneer of modern screen printing in the United States. However, Harry Hiett noted in his book […]

Herbert A. Wells

Herbert A. Wells (1917-2007) – Owner of Insta Graphic Systems and Founder of International Coatings in 1957, and Owner of Insta Graphic Systems since 1969. Wells was born in Germany on October 7, 1917. Following the murder of one of his friends by Hitler Youth in 1934, his parents sent him to the United States […]

Franz Weiss

Franz Weiss – Holds U. S. Patent 1959992 (1931) for the wash-out printing screen method. This Chicago-based screen printer produced screens with such detail that his methods were employed by the screen printers who produced the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in the 1930’s. Holds U. S. Patent 3,172,358 (1965) for the principle of vacuum […]

Robert Webster

Robert Webster – 1979 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Bill Wainner

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. […]

Mark L. Venit

Mark Louis Venit (1948-2015) – Industry consultant and marketing guru, speaker at many trade shows, writer, author, teacher, hypnotist, game show contestant, a pianist, disk jockey, professional sandcastle builder, a Rotarian and Mason, and a staunch Republican. Venit was born on December 5, 1948 in Philadelphia to Irving Gordon Venit and Mildred F. (Schnoll) Klugman. […]

Nat Velardi

Nat Velardi – 1979 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Joseph Ulano

Joseph Ulano (Ulanoff) (Jul 4, 1906 – Feb 24, 1992) was a Kyiv, Russian immigrant who found work in screenprinting in New York. In the 1920s, he began improving the screenprinting process, especially in stencils. While working as a foreman at a New York-based screen printing shop in 1929, just before the Great Depression, Ulano […]

Mike Ukena

Mike Ukena – Mike Ukena has devoted more than 30 years to the screenprinting industry. First, as a business owner in Washington state, followed by three years at Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) in technical support and as Director of Education, and finally, 18 years with Union Ink Company as a Regional Sales Manager. During […]

Gene Tway

Gene Tway – co-founder of Woodmere China along with wife, Patricia Tway. The company produced fine china for many, including the U.S. White House.

Patricia Tway

Patricia Tway – Author of many articles and books including, People, Common Sense and the Small Business. Co-Founder with husband, Gene Tway, of Woodmere China. The company produced fine china for many, including the U.S. White House. Frequent speaker at industry trade shows.

Charles (Chuck) C. Tibbetts

Charles (Chuck) C. Tibbetts – (Sept 15, 1923 – November 9, 2010) – Tibbetts was born in Eagle Rock, California, and remained in Southern California throughout his life. He was a World War II Veteran, serving as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army; a D-Day Survivor (Omaha Beach), a proud member of the Military Order […]

Peter Terry

Peter Terry – 1974 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Mortimer Taylor

Mortimer Taylor – 1984 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Charlie Taublieb

Charlie Taublieb – A graduate of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with a BS in Fine Art, majoring in painting and minors in printmaking and drawing, Taublieb continues to enjoy painting in his spare time. After graduating in 1976, Charlie owned Great American Screen Designs in Brooklyn, New York, an automated screen printing company.  […]

Targian Tan

Targian Tan – Tan started his business, Central SPS, in the early 1970s, with headquarters in Jakarta and several branch offices throughout Indonesia. Two new companies were developed in Vietnam and China in the 1990s. Since 1980, he has translated screenprinting techniques and pad printing articles into Indonesian language and Chinese, including analyzing programs in […]

Fred Switzer

Fred Switzer – 1977 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Wallace Carothers

Wallace Hume Carothers (April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station Laboratory near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, […]

Count Hilaire de Chardonnet

Count Hilaire de Chardonnet – This French chemist was the inventor of “artificial silk” as he referred to it at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Two years later, he built the first commercial Rayon plant at Besancon, France, which was the first commercial production of man-made fabric and thus secured his fame as the ‘father […]

Sir Joseph W. Swan

Sir Joseph W. Swan – An English chemist and electrician, Sir Joseph helped develop photographic methods of screen printing on textiles and wallpaper in the mid-1800’s in England, as well as the first man-made fabrics. Swan the son of John and Isabella Cameron Swan, graduated from Durham University with the degree of Doctor of Science. […]

Harry Sternberg

Harry Sternberg – The author of Silk Screen Color Printing published in 1942, the book gave an excellent treatise on the tusche method of screen making.

Mark Stern

Mark Stern – With a professional sales and marketing background that spans more than 30 years, Mark Stern pioneered sales efforts for the original Flexfit hat in the mid-1980s and has held the position of vice president of sales for Flexfit since 2004. He lives on Long Island, N.Y. with his wife and two sons.

John Sperry

John Sperry – 1986 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Ray Smith

Ray Smith – Involved in the screen-printing industry since 1978, as an art director, production manager, plant manager and business owner. He re-joined Wilflex in 2008 as the applications lab manager and is charged with benchmarking products, investigating ink inquiries and testing new inks and applications

Donald Sloan

Donald Sloan – 2000 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Dale Sloan

Dale Sloan – 1978 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Steve Slagle

Steve Slagle – President of Promotional Products Association International (PPAI).

Samuel Simon

Samuel Simon – This Manchester, U.K. resident was granted an English patent in 1907 covering the screen printing process as we know it today, except that Simon used a brush instead of a squeegee to transfer the ink through the mesh.

Glenn Michael Shull

Glenn M. Shull (30 May 1962 – 24 July 2024), business leader, author, photographer. Shull was the youngest of three siblings,  born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He attended Council Rock High School and the College of the Redwoods. Having worked in multiple areas, Screen, Digital, and Litho since 1981, Shull held positions from Account Management […]

Harry Shokler

Harry Shokler – Wrote the Artist’s Manual for Silk Screen Print Making, in 1960. The author is responsible for many young artists turning to screen printing as a way to express themselves visually and hence the expanded development of screen printing as a fine art form.

Devang Sheth

Devang Sheth – Fascinated by the screen printing industry right since his youth, Sheth decided to take up the cause of imparting knowledge and enabling the thousands of small screenprinters in India to realize their true potential. In August 1993, he launched Screen Print India, a niche monthly magazine with Sheth holding the position of […]

Edward Shaffer

Edward Shaffer – 1989 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Paul Schretter

Paul Schretter – 1981 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Harry Rosenthal

Harry Rosenthal – Founder of Rosenthal Manufacturing. A leading developer of sheeters, slitters, and converting equipment for the screenprinting industry.

Lawrence “Larry” Rogers

Lawrence “Larry” Rogers  (September 07, 1941 – January 25, 2019) – President of Jay Products Company. Rogers was a graduate of Elder High School in Cincinnati, OH, served in the Air Force Reserve, and eventually became the president of Jay Products. In 1974 Rogers was inducted into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies […]

Harry Rhodes

Harry Rhodes – Co-founder of Bodek and Rhodes. Bodek and Rhodes is a 64-year-old wholesaler of imprintable activewear. The company started in 1939 with two men – Ed Bodek and Harry Rhodes. They each pooled $100 to supply socks and underwear to the retail trade, working from a basement warehouse in downtown Philadelphia. Both Ed […]

Ralph Rhein

Ralph Rhein– 2008 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

George W. Reinke

George W. Reinke – Holds U. S. Patent 3,155,034 (1964) for the web-fed screen printing press.

James K. Reed

James K. Reed – 1976 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Joe Raymond

Joe Raymond – a 2004 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Frank Porth

Porth was a 1979 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Alphonse Louis Poitevin

Alphonse Louis Poitevin (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) – a French chemist, was one of the most important inventors of the early days of photography and indeed the digital printing processes in use today. His main inventions include photographic and photomechanical processes now known as carbon printing and collotype printing. The carbon process, initially a […]

William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) – was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work […]

Mongo Ponton

Mongo Ponton – Helped develop photographic methods of screen printing on textiles and wallpaper in the mid-1800’s in England. Ponton is credited with discovering the light sensitivity of dichromate in 1838, and Fox Talbot noted that soluble organic colloids, when combined with dichromate, became insoluble. One of the continuing problems for 19th Century photographers was […]

Joseph E. Podgor

Joseph E. Podgor (1905-1999) founded Joseph E. Podgor Co. Inc. in Center City, Pennsylvania. Podgor was an innovator in the development of screenprinting ink and techniques. Podgor was born in Philadelphia but lived in Pennsauken and Ocean City, N.J., before moving to Boca Raton, Florida, in 1997. Podgor attended the Wharton School of the University […]

Eugene Pilsworth

Eugene Pilsworth (1878-1917) – A San Francisco commercial artist. Eugene was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England to John Patrick Pilsworth (1843-1920) a lithographer from Ireland and Odelia Delia Hanley (1847-deceased). His siblings were John C. Patrick Pilsworth (1872-1933), Edward S. Pilsworth (1870-1936) Henry Arthur Pilsworth (1873-1935), Harry Pilsworth (1874-deceased), Delia Francis Pilsworth (1876-1960), Eugene Pilsworth […]

John C. Patrick Pilsworth

John C. Patrick Pilsworth (1871–1933) – A commercial artist and gravure engraver, an innovator and the first screenprinting consultant. Pilsworth was born in Birmingham, England to John Patrick Pilsworth (1843–1920) a lithographer from Ireland and Odelia Delia Hanley (1847–deceased). His siblings were Edward S. Pilsworth (1870–1936), Henry Arthur Pilsworth (1873–1934), Harry Pilsworth (1874–deceased), Delia Francis […]

Wolfgang Pfirrmann

Wolfgang Pfirrmann – He began his career in screenprinting at Domberger KG, Filderstadt, Germany, from 1976 to 1979, where he apprenticed as a screenprinter. He then spent the next five years, from 1979 to 1984, doing freelance work and consulting in screenprinting. He then worked as a screenprinter and production manager in Hamburg for two […]

Andre Peyskens

Andre Peyskens is a 1990 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Printing Technology (ASDPT). His book, The Technical Fundamentals of Screen Making, published in 1989, is considered the best to date on screenmaking techniques.

William Henry Perkins

William Henry Perkins – The English chemist who while attempting to make quinine from a coal tar derivative known as aniline accidentally succeeded in making the first coal tar dye (mauve) in 1856. This was the first modern synthetic dye.

Andrew Szegvari

Dr. Andrew Szegvari invented, in 1922, a liquid latex process for making rubber goods, and the process known as Attritor Grinding and Dispersing. In 1946, Szegvari founded Union Process, the Ohio-based grinding equipment manufacturer and makers of rubber inks at the time.

Tedd Swormstedt

Tedd Swormstedt was the President of ST Media Group International beginning in 1990, working in the financial and advertising side of the business. ST Media Group International produces publications (Big Picture, BXP, Screen Printing Magazine, Signs of the Times, and VMSD), websites ( and events for the visual communication markets consisting of signage and graphics, […]

David Reid Swormstedt, Jr.

David R. Swormstedt, Jr. was born to David Reed Swormstedt, Sr., and his wife, Helen. His brother is Jerry R. Swormstedt. Swormstedt, Jr. was married to Winifred Bronson. David R. Swormstedt, Jr. is a 1983 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Printing Technology (ASDPT)).

David Reid Swormstedt, Sr.

David (Dave) Reed Swormstedt, Sr. (1904 – 1978) was born in Ohio to George Willliam (Willie) Swormstedt (1874-1960) and Helen (nee Short) Swormstedt (1873-1951). Swormstedt, Sr. was married to Helen (nee Menefee) Swormstedt (1904-1991) in 1926, and together, they had two sons, David R. Swormstedt, Jr. (1929-2013) and Jerry R. Swormstedt (1934-2015). Swormstedt, Sr. was […]

Howard W. Parmele

Parmele is the past president of Naz-Dar Company. He opened the first screen printing supply house in the United States in 1922.

Marvin Page

Marvin Page was the sales manager for Jay Products, Cincinnati, OH. Page is a 1981 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Joseph J. Odajian

Odajian holds U. S. Patent 1,494,798 (1924) for a stencil apparatus, similar to the modern textile screen printing table.

Peter Mytton-Davies

Mytton-Davies wrote Screen Process Printing in 1952, giving American screenprinters a view of the screenprinting process as it was practiced in Great Britain.

Shizuo Murakami

Murakami is a 1987 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Elmar Messerschmitt

Elmar Messerschmitt (2 Dec 1920 – 8 Sep 1992). Dr. Messerschmitt was the president of Seri-Plastica, Ltd., a manufacturer of screen printing instrumentation and equipment, and was the Managing Director of Ingo-Chemie GmbH, Prof Messerschmitt is best known in the professional world as a pioneer of screenprinting in Germany. His expertise has been recognized in […]

Edward Meissner

Meissner is a 1978 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Frank Mayer

Mayer is a 1975 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Guy Masse

Guy Masse – After graduating from the University of Western Brittany (at Brest, France) in 1986 with a Doctorate of Chemistry degree, and after his military obligations (as a chemist working on antidotes against phosphorus-based toxic gas), Masse entered the graphic arts industry in 1988. He began his career as the Research and Development Manager […]

Ron Mason

Mason is a 1983 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Merv Mason

Mason is a 1977 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Donald A. Marsden

Donald A. Marsden (August 28, 1942 – August 20, 2020) –  Majoring in English literature at Princeton University, he went on to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University before teaching English at Gettysburg College and Adelphi University. Mr. Marsden joined Ulano in 1972 and received technical training in screenprinting at Ulano laboratories in New York […]

Rick Mandel

Rick Mandel – After graduation from the University of Wisconsin, where he received a BS degree, Mandel went to work in the family business, Mandel Graphic Solutions, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He represents the fourth generation of the 120-year-old graphics firm. Mandel Company is a 4th generation business that has successfully navigated a progressive course […]

Vincent Mace

Mace is a 1986 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Max Levy

About 1888, this Philadelphia-based manufacturer developed the first widely available halftone screens used by photoengravers and screen makers to prepare film positives. The company is still in business in Philadelphia, producing a wide range of products including: Measuring Devices: Microrules Microscales Grid and Dot Arrays Magnifiers and Comparators Microscopes Reticles Comparator Charts and Scales Gray […]

Guido Lengwiler

Guido Lengwiler (born 1960) – Originally from Winterthur, Switzerland, Lengwiler attended the School for Arts and Crafts in Zurich from 1977 to 1982. And in 1980, he attended a specialist class for painting with Franz Fedier in Basel. From 1983 to 1986, he was a screenprinting apprentice with Beatrice Spillmann in Zurich. Then he worked […]

Eberhard Lendle

Lendle is a 1986 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Charles Leach

Leach is a 1995 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Hugh Lavell

Lavell is a 1985 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Gene Landesman

Eugene (Gene) Landesman was the founder of Lawson Screen Products in St. Louis, Missouri, and the inventor of many innovative machines for the industry. His father was an immigrant artist from Berlin, Germany, who came to St. Louis to paint the murals for the German pavilion at the 1904 World’s Fair. He grew up near […]

John Kenneth Lamb

John Kenneth Lamb (7/7/1911 – 11/28/2006) was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin to John Otis Lamb and Nelle Evangeline Martin. Lt. Colonel John K. Lamb volunteered for duty in the Army Air Corps the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, WWII. He served in the Classified Message Center as Top Secret Control Officer, Chief of […]

Richard Labov

Labov was the president of Union Ink Company and who was responsible for many improvements to ink used by the screenprinting industry.

E. J. Kyle

E. J. Kyle – Kyle is a 1976 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Gene Krupinski

Gene Krupinski is a 1978 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Albert Kosloff

Albert Kosloff (March 28, 1911 – July 17, 1993) is the author of several books on screen printing. He coined the term mitography during WWII with the intent of offering a term that was comprehensive, technically correct, concise, and easy to translate into other languages. The word was taken from the Greek prefix mitos meaning […]

Leonard Knopf

Knopf is a 1975 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Marci Kinter

Marci Kinter –  Received a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s degree in public administration from George Mason University. After graduation, Kinter worked for The American Waterways Operators, Inc., the national association for the barge and towing industry. In 1989, Kinter joined the Specialty Graphic Imaging […]

John Key

John Key is a 1974 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Ralph Karsten

Ralph Karsten is a 1987 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Lane Kalmin

Kalmin founded KATI Sportcap of Houston in March 1983.

Terrance “Terry” Kaiserman

Terrance “Terry” Kaiserman – Attended the Marion Insitute in Marion, AL, received his AA at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL, attended the University of Southern Mississippi and received his B.A. in Communications-Radio and Television at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Currently, Kaiserman is the President/Chief Technical Officer for Colortronics Technologies. He directs […]

Robert T. Jordan

Jordan is the author of, Starting Your Own Garment Graphics Business. This publisher of the former Screenplay Magazine used his business management training and experience to write a great book for those just getting started in the textile printing business.

Harold Johnston

Harold Johnston is a 1984 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Roger Jennings

Jennings is President of the R Jennings Manufacturing Co., an equipment manufacturer and printing supplies distributor in Glens Falls, N.Y. He holds multiple patents on screenprinting equipment.

Bill Windsor

William Michael Windsor (born October 2, 1948) is an American business and publishing magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of The Windsor Companies. During his publishing career, beginning in 1977, Windsor has owned and/or operated over 100 magazines and trade shows. Other business interest include those in the travel businesses, retail stores, […]

Sam T. Ingram

Sam T. Ingram – Received his B.S. from Appalachian State University in 1978, his Master of Industrial Education from Clemson University in 1982, and his Doctorate in Education from Clemson in 1985. After graduating from Clemson, Ingram worked as a Graphic Arts Teacher, a Woodworking Instructor, and in the Industrial Arts in the public school […]

John Wesley Hyatt

Hyatt, as a young printer developed thermoplastic material, Celluloid, (cellulose nitrate), the first American plastic in 1869.

Dan Holzer

Holzer is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of of Forward Printing, Inc, located in Oakland, California. He has been published, along with co-owner, Dan Corcoran, in many industry publications and online journals. Forward Printing has won many first place awards for their promotional prints annually beginning in 2006.

Riley Hopkins

Hopkins is the founder of Hopkins Equipment Company is credited for many innovations and improvements to the manual textile screen printing press.

Sam Hoff

Hoff is the author of many technical articles for the screen printing industry. His book, “Screen Printing” published in 1997 explains the entire screen printing process with in-depth explanations, each stage of the process. Technological advances and latest industry trends are reviewed. Photographs, charts, diagrams and graphics illustrate the procedures and concepts behind the techniques […]

Roland Hobart

Hobart begin his career as a university instructor teaching classes in screenprinting prior to becoming National Technical Director at Dynamesh, Inc.

Harry Leroy Hiett

Hiett was an early pioneer of the screen printing industry partially responsible for the development of photographic screen printing in the U. S. and whose books, Photo Stencil Screen Work, and 57 How To Do It Charts, served many as wonderful reference guides. His, Manual on Stencil Screen Process Work, Formulas, Working Instructions, and General […]

Wes Harpold

Harpold is the founder of the HARCO company and inventor of many products for the industry over the years. The company has gone through a name change is now called Brown Manufacturing, Inc. Today the company is being ran by members of the family.

Mike Harpold

Harpold is the son of Wes Harpold and currently operates Brown Manufacturing, Inc., along with other members of the family.

Gerri Harpold-Rhein

Gerri is the daughter of Wes Harpold and currently operating Brown Manufacturing, Inc.

Dorothy Harkins

Harkins book, Screening Fabric Techniques, was one of the first ever written on textile screen printing

Stephen “Spider” Snider

Stephen “Spider” Snider, the owner of “International Institute Of Specialized Art & Screen Print, Inc.” or as it was affectionately known, “Spider and Co.” of Mesa, AZ, which he founded in 1978. He was a freelance artist credited with many innovative art styles for the screen printing industry. Author of many articles on creating art […]

Herman G. Haffner

Herman G. Haffner is Chief Executive Officer for Nor-Cote International. He has played an instrumental role in ultraviolet curing, devoting much of his career to increasing printers’ acceptance and success with UV inks and radiation curing. Haffner (with fellow Who’s Who member Joe Raymond) advanced early research using IR heat to accelerate and improve UV […]

Pei Guifan

Pei Guifan – A pioneer in developing the screen printing industry in China for more than 25 years through her leadership in organizing technical education programs, symposiums, publications, and international trade shows throughout China. Guifan is Chair of the Chinese Screen and Graphic Imaging Association (CSGIA) and a member of the Asia Screen Printing & […]

Nancy Gray

Nancy Laurie Gray (1 May 1950 – 23 January 2023) was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she attended James Madison High School and then Studied at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Nancy started her career as a serigrapher but found the sales end of the industry exciting enough to change her focus. Nancy was well-known […]

Mark Granberry

Mark Granberry is the President of Graphic Solutions Group (GSG). Mark was born in Dallas, Texas to Henry Lee “Hank” Granberry and Mena Gene Wilbourn. He has two brothers Michael Granberry (Nancy Churnin), Larry Granberry (Jill Granberry), and a sister Mallary Henrichs (John Henrichs). As a young man, Mark worked at Texas Screen Process Supply, […]

Henry Lee “Hank” Granberry

Henry Lee “Hank” Granberry (Jan 31, 1925 – Aug 11, 2001) was born in the small East Texas town of Hawkins. In 1948, he married Mena Gene Wilbourn, a fellow East Texan from Wills Point, while he was serving in the U.S. Navy. They had four children, Michael Granberry (Nancy Churnin), Mark Granberry (Charla Granberry), […]

Mo Goss

Goss co-founded, with husband Duke, Printa Systems (formerly Namco) in Kirkland, Washington. Creator of pad printing, cylindrical and all in one screenprinting press systems.

Duke Goss

Goss co-founded, with wife Mo, Printa Systems (formerly Namco) in Kirkland, Washington. Creator of pad printing, cylindrical and all in one screenprinting press systems.

Richard Gore

Richard Gore is a 1980 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Mark Goodridge

Mark Goodridge, with his wife, Sue, started Goodridges Screen Printing in Maine, USA in 1982. They printed on a wide variety of garments as well as signs, posters, and bumper stickers. Eventually selling his screenprinting business, Mark became the editor of now-defunct Screenplay Magazine, a textile screen printing trade magazine. Later he served as the […]

Roberto González Ojeda

Roberto González Ojeda – President of Inovacrom and Ultrasol Inks, of Mexico City, Mexico. González created a line of plastisols compounds for use as a screenprinting ink. The most significant contribution is the maximum opacity. There exists in the world no other line of inks with such an outstanding property.

Laurie Gonz

Gonz has served in various positions with Impressions and EMB Magazines. Currently Associate Publisher and National Sales Manager.

Robert Gold

Robert Gold is a 1989 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Daniel Gilsdorf

Daniel Gilsdorf – After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 1992 with a B.S. in Industrial Technology with a concentration in Graphic Arts Management, Gilsdorf began his screenprinting career as Production Manager for Kings Graphics, Inc. of Mendota Heights, MN. He then worked as a Laboratory Technician in an internship at Tetko, Inc. of […]

Hans Gerd-Scheer

Hans Gerd-Scheer is a 1977 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT). Gerd-Scheer won the first Swormstedt Award in 1978. He went on to win four Swormstedt Awards for 1978, 1980, 1987, and 1999. 1978: Title Unknown 1980: “The Influence of the Stencil Fabric on the Ink Deposit and Consumption of […]

Walter Frick

Walter Frick was a 1995 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Scott O. Fresener

Scott O. Fresener – Started screenprinting in his garage in the 1970s, along with his wife, Pat Fresener. The business was sold in 1978, to devote time to writing his How To Print T-Shirts For Fun and Profit! Since, he has been a mainstay in the industry producing articles, books, CDs and DVDs, software and […]

Tom O. Frecska

Frecska was the editor of Screen Printing Magazine for several years. He was the son of Tamas and Sue Frecska. Frecska passed away May 21, 2009 after suffering a sudden heart attack. He was just 42 years old. Mr. Frecska was survived by his wife, Gwen; his daughters, Courtney and Brittany, both 16; his son, […]

Sue Frecska

Sue Frecska is a 1989 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Robert Owen Fossett

Robert (Bob) Owen Fossett was born in Falmouth, Kentucky, on January 26, 1907. When he was 11, his family moved to a farm near Morrow, Ohio, where he finished grade school. He attended high school for one year in Fort Thomas and finished his education in Morrow. Fossett received two years of commercial art education […]

Sylve J. D. Ericsson

Sylve J. D. Ericsson – (born 1944) – Ericsson is the Executive Vice President of Interchange Equipment, Inc. of Passaic, New Jersey, the full-service connection for new and reconditioned screenprinting equipment. He has been involved in the development and technical sales of screenprinting equipment for the international market for more than 40 years. Ericsson is […]

Otto Eppinger

Otto Eppinger is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAS Screen Printing Equipment P/L, a manufacturer of presses for the screenprinting technologies located in Australia. He is credited with the first automatic textile press with lifting platens and has many other innovative patents within the screenprinting technologies. TAS commenced in 1968 as an engineering […]

Richard Eisenbeiss

Richard Eisenbeiss (born 1927) was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied law in Basel, Switzerland, and Heidelberg. As a student, Richard worked for almost three years at the University of Heidelberg as executive secretary of the Foreign Department. After a stint at the courts of law, Richard went to the US to work in NYC […]

Jan Van Duppen

Duppen is a 1985 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Gary Duke

Duke is a 1980 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Steve Duccilli

Steve Duccilli, began his career as the senior Vice President of Content of Screen Printing Magazine, published by ST Media Group International. ST Media Group International, Inc. operated as a publishing company. The company provided trade information through various media outlets, including trade publications, magazines, events, Websites, e-newsletters, books, and educational materials, digital editions, tablet-accessible […]

D. L. “Dutch” Drehle

D. L. “Dutch” Drehle – His distinguished career in 1958 with an apprenticeship position while attending college. After graduating from Colorado State University in 1961, Drehle founded Plass Container Company, a division of Colorado Serum Company, which later absorbed the shop where Drehle had been an apprentice and grew to a million-dollar-a-year container decorating company […]

Willi Dornbierer

Dornbierer is a 1993 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Michael Domberger

Michael Domberger – (born 1940) – Domberger was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1940. Beginning in 1956, he was a screen printing apprentice in Germany, and by 1958, he had passed the German national screenprinter examination. From 1958 to 1961, Domberger pursued screen printing studies in Switzerland, England, Denmark, and the United States. From 1964 to […]

Art Dobie

Art Dobie – Received his Bachelor of Science in Graphic Communication, specializing in Screenprint Technology, in 1980 from California University of Pennsylvania. Since graduating, Dobie has been with Sefar, Inc. and is now the Technical Marketing Manager for Sefar, Inc., located in Depew, New York. Dobie is a Life Member and Fellow of the Society […]

David “Dave” Dennings

David “Dave” Dennings holds a Bachelor’s in Visual Communications Technology from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, where he was first introduced to screenprinting.  Following graduation, he worked for four years as an area manager for a chain of retail portrait studios throughout the United States and England. In 1987, at the suggestion of a college […]

John Howard Day

John Howard Day — Founder of J. H. Day, was founded in 1887 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company made many of the early roller mills and other specialty equipment for the ink, paint, plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical and rubber industries. J. H. Day was also the third largest company in the food processing field. The first […]

Dawn Hohl

Dawn Hohl graduated with a B.S. in Graphic Communications and Technology, with a Screen Printing option, from the California University of Pennsylvania in California, PA, in 1989. Since graduating, Hohl has worked for the Screen Printing Technical Foundation (SPTF), an affiliated organization of the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) dedicated to advancing the screen printing […]

Rick Davis

Rick Davis began his career running a 4-color Hydraulic Precision Oval in 1976 for Tee Formations (in a barn) in Tipp City, Ohio. Since then, Rick has enjoyed a background in Production Management, Artwork Engineering, and as an industry consultant. He is the author of many outstanding technical articles for the screenprinting industry and is a […]

Sidney Darby

Wrote a treatise on the fundamentals of screenprinting for the International Correspondence Schools and inspired many students to become screenprinters.

Bela Daranyi

Bela Daranyi is a 1993 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Louis F. D’Autremont

A Dayton, OH screen printer who developed in 1929 a knife-cut stencil film tissue named Profilm. An associate, A. S. Danemon patented the process that same year. Profilm Corporation V. Blumenstock, (S.D.N.Y. 1940) In 1940, ProFilm Corporation filed a patent infringement suit against Hyman Blumenstock (Morris Blumenstock and Henry Blumenstock, co-partners) who were doing business […]

Stan Cygan

Stan is a 1971 awardee of the Howard Parmele Award. The Howard Parmele Award is considered the highest honor the screen printing and graphic imaging industry offers. Named in tribute to one of the Association’s founders, the Parmele Award is considered the “Oscar” or “Emmy” of the screen printing and graphic imaging industry. It has […]

John Curtis

An English-born chemist, Curtis was technical manager of Sericol and later as senior research chemist until his appointment as a vice president of research and product development in 1990.

J. Page Crouch

J. Page Crouch is a 1994 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Michela Marcantonio

Michela Marcantonio is the Conference and Events Assistant for the Federation of European Screen Printing Association (FESPA). She graduated from Kent University in 2008 with a BA (Honors) in Sociology. After taking a year out in 2009 to venture on an overseas expedition, she then completed a Marketing and Events graduate scheme within the charity […]

John M. Crawford

John M. Crawford – (1939-2001) After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in association management, Crawford earned the distinguished Certified Association Executive (CAE) and Certified Meeting Planner (CMP) designation from the American Society of Association Executives. From there, he began his career in 1969 with what was then the Screen Printing Association […]

Dan Corcoran

Corcoran is the co-founder of Forward Printing, Inc, located in Oakland, California. He has been published, along with co-owner, Dan Holzer, in many industry publications and online journals. Forward Printing has won many first place awards for their promotional prints annually beginning in 2006.

Terry Combs

Author of many articles for the screen printing industry. Combs is an industry consultant and presents workshops on screenprinting.

Max Arthur Cohn

Max Arthur Cohn (1903–1998) was an American artist (fine arts painter), born in England. His family emigrated to the United States when he was two years old. Cohn was one of the artists employed by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, painting for the Easel Project and the Public Works […]

Dane Clement

Artist, especially of textile design. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, where he founded Great Dane Designs and Dog Bone Tees. Author of magazine articles for the screen printing industry. Popular speaker at industry trade shows and art department guru to many.

Fred Clarke

Fred Clarke – (d. January 8, 1992) – Master color separator for the screenprinting industries. Fred became interested in photography while serving his country in United States Navy. Afterward, Fred founded an offset printing business in Dallas, Texas. His company printed greeting cards and other paper items using the four-color process. Clarke’s wife, Pat Clarke, […]

Louis J. Kabell

Credited (along with co-worker Clyde O. Childress) with inventing the Electrostatic Printing Method while working at Stanford Research Institute in 1961.

Clyde O. Childress

Credited (along with co-worker Louis J. Kabell) with inventing the Electrostatic Printing Method while working at Stanford Research Institute in 1961.

Dorothy Carr

Dorothy Carr studied the process in her husband’s Francis Carr’s classes at the London College of Printing and Graphic Art. She found the direct and painterly qualities of the medium so conducive to her own working methods that the exploration lasted well into the 70’s expanding into prints, textiles, wallpapers, collage, book art and painting. […]

Francis Carr

Francis Carr (born Geza Spitzer in Hungary in 1919), husband to Dorothy Carr – artist, designer and lecturer, is a socially motivated traveler across the boundaries between disciplines within the natural and built environment. This has taken him from teaching and pioneering screenprinting as a popular medium and legitimate print process to ambitious large scale […]

Harmut Buchel

Harmut Buchel is a 1987 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Denise Breard

Denise Breard began working at Action Screen Printing in New Orleans during the late 1970s. She quickly found her calling was more technical and training related and moved into the manufacturing and distribution segments of screenprinting technologies. After serving as Product Manager with AutoType Americas, Breard served as Training Manager with Sericol’s Technical Department at […]

Alex de Gelsey

Alex de Gelsey was the founder of Photo Colour Laboratories, which was later named Sericol. When Burmah Castrol acquired Sericol in 1983, Alex remained active as the Chairman of Sericol and as an Executive Director for Burmah Chemicals. Alex left his native Hungary in 1946 for England to escape the oppressive Communist rule and to […]

Umberto Brasa

Umberto Braza founded SIAS, the Italian manufacturer of graphic screenprinting presses. He was a prolific inventor. 1993 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT). Deceased in 2000. A few of the many patents held By Umberto Brasa U.S. Patent Number 5,787,804 A silk-screen printing machine with the safe removal of the […]

William Boyd

A pioneer of the screen printing industry, Boyd worked for many companies before starting his own W. W. Boyd and Associates in Columbus, OH. He was a long standing member of the Midwest Screen Printing Association.

Ed Bodek

Co-founder of Bodek and Rhodes. Bodek and Rhodes is a 64-year-old wholesaler of imprintable activewear. The company started in 1939 with two men – Ed Bodek and Harry Rhodes. They each pooled $100 to supply socks and underwear to the retail trade, working from a basement warehouse in downtown Philadelphia. Both Ed and Harry have […]

Dr. James A. Black

Dr. James A. Black developed the high-speed cylinder press at General Research in the late 1940s. He patented his unique vacuum cylinder screen printing press in June 1948. As a screenprinter, Black recognized the need for faster, more accurate production of decals and designed the original General Cylinder Press to meet these demands. Over the […]

Neil Bolding

Neil Bolding – Has been involved in the printing industry for over 30 years. Twenty-seven of those with Autotype and now MacDermid Autotype. He has a Bachelor’s degree from London University in Chemistry and an MBA from Roosevelt University, Chicago. Neil has experience in production, and QC functions at Autotype International in England. For the […]

Lorenz Boegli

Lorenz Boegli – Born in Solothum, Switzerland, Lorenz received his training in screenprinting, working with an advertising firm during the 1980s. His experience extends into screenprinting, digital, offset, and industrial printing. Conducted research on the relationship between the technologies of screenprinting and offset lithography. From 1988 to 1993, Boegli taught screenprinting at the Superior School […]

Frank Blanco, Jr.

Frank Blanco, Jr entered the screen printing field in 1971 as a chemist for Colonial Printing Ink Company, now part of Coates Screen. Before working in the screen printing industry, Frank worked as a lab technician for Interchemical Corporation, as a chemist for American Litho Varnish Company, and as Olivetti Underwood. Currently, Frank works for […]

G. William (Bill) Hood

G. William (Bill) Hood (born 12 Oct 1945) – Hood entered the screenprinting technologies almost at birth, having been born to the late Tom Hood, a screenprinter in the Dallas, Texas, area. He worked in the family screenprinting business until entering the military during the Vietnam Conflict in 1961. Hood first served as a Cryptologist, […]

Roy Baxley

Roy Spurgeon Baxley, (Nov 7, 1921 – Mar 1, 2014). Roy was born in San Antonio, Texas to Clarence and Annabelle Baxley. His parents moved to Dallas when Roy was still a toddler, and he grew up in the East Dallas area then known as Pleasant Grove. He graduated from Pleasant Grove High School, later […]

Jacob (Jack) Israel Biegeleisen

Jacob (Jack) Israel Biegeleisen (1909-1999) was a Polish-American screenprinter, educator, and author of several books on the screenprinting process. His book, Silk Screen Stencil Craft as a Hobby, originally published in 1935, inspired many hobbyists to become successful screenprinters. Biegeleisen organized classes in screenprinting in the New York City high schools; was an instructor at […]

Robert Bellemare

Robert Bellemare – Born into screenprinting as the son of Montreal (Quebec) Canadian printer, Robert Bellemare Sr. He worked diligently in the family business, holding various positions as a camera operator, screenmaker printer, and finally in 1987 progressed into sales, acquiring knowledge as he went. In 1989, Robert opened his own shop. Today, Robert has […]

Geoff Baxter

Geoff Baxter is manager of M&R’s Digital Division. Baxter previously served as President and co-founder of Atlantic Screen Supply, Inc. His 30-year industry career includes management positions with Logo-7, Harlequin Nature Graphics, Advance Process Supply Co., and Precision Screen Machines. He is currently employed by M&R Print and Sales, a world leader in screenprinting machinery. […]

Dr. Leo Baekland

This Yonkers, N.Y. resident is credited with developing thermosetting material in 1909.

Ernie Allen

Founder of Melco Embroidery Equipment, which is now MelcoUSA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saurer Limited, the world’s largest textile machine manufacturer with 150 years of expertise, based in Switzerland. Melco is the embroidery industry leader in modular commercial embroidery machines and commercial embroidery machine design software. Since 1972, Melco Embroidery Systems has been the industry […]

Ryan Moor

Ryan Moor – (b. 1981) – CEO of Ryonet and SilkScreenSupplies.com online. Moor is perhaps the youngest person to start his own multi-million screenprint supply business. Starting in May 2004, the company reached monthly sales of $50,000 per month by the end of the first year. By the end of the following year, sales were […]

Ronald “Ron” C. Anderson

Ronald “Ron” C. Anderson – Owner of Pressurized Screen Graphics, of Connellsville, PA, who in 1984 invented a press to print baseball caps without the use of a squeegee. The device used air pressure to transfer the ink through the mesh and onto the substrate. While the machine had some success in the beginning, today […]

Eladio Rivadulla Martínez

Eladio Rivadulla Martinez (May 20, 1923 – March 28, 2011). Cuban artist, screenprinter, writer, and journalist. Recognized as an innovator and teacher since 1943 of integral production: design and artistic serigraphy of film posters in Cuba. Eladio was a Cuban visual artist, professor, and leading figure in Cuba’s visual art movement, especially “pop art.” Rivadulla […]

Gordon Brooke Carter

Gordon Brook Carter – one of the more colorful characters in the screenprinting industry for many years. Carter received his degree Commerce in 1967 from the University of Alberta (Canada) where he was a member of Delta Upsilon. Upon graduation, he moved to Spain, where in December 1970, he and his wife Bernadette (who were […]

Mike Young

Mike Young – A specialist in high-definition graphic and high-performance industrial screenprinting for 40+ years. Applications include graphic arts, large format graphics, 4 color process, graphic overlays, membranes, OEM labels/decals, electroluminescence, CDs, nameplates, dial/gauges touchscreens, force sensors, ceramic transfers, rigid & flexible printed circuits, and flat glass (automotive, appliance, gaming, furniture & architectural). Young has […]