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 industry through process-related research and educational programs.

She served as the Technical Training Manager and was responsible for developing technical information for SPTF’s educational products and training programs. She continues to teach and is an industry consultant for Uncommon Enterprises LLC.

Among her many educational accomplishments, she developed an extensive online Troubleshooting Guide, a complete Screen Printing Process Model Chart, initiated SPTF’s e-Training program, and completed SPTF’s Work Instruction series. Additionally, she has served on California University of Pennsylvania’s Graphic Communication Advisory Committee and Skills USA Technical Committee for Screen Printing.

She also helped to develop, refine and conduct SPTF’s “Screen Making” and “Graphics Four-Color Process” seminars, as well as developed and conducted “Color Theory” and “Statistical Process Control for Screen Printing” seminars.  She also oversaw the textile workshop sessions at SGIA 2003.

Dawn, the author of over thirty research reports and magazine articles, has been published in Screen Printing, Sign Media Canada, Screen Graphics, The Press, SGIA Journal, and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.  She currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Sign Media Canada.

On the research side, Dawn was instrumental in building and promoting SPTF’s research agenda, completing over two dozen major research projects for the Foundation.  Prominent among them are projects dealing with heat vs. tension, reclaiming, exposure light distribution testing, color control testing, ink estimating formulas and calculations, ink deposit testing on 27 mesh counts, stencil thickness effects on ink thickness, bolt-to-bolt mesh variation effects on ink deposit, capillary application variable study, changes in polyester mesh during tensioning, electronic thickness gauge techniques, sample preparation techniques for ink, and polyester mesh capability study. In addition, Dawn was responsible for developing the electronic off-contact gauge and an ink estimating software program and helped develop two screen printing probes for thickness gauges.

Hohl is a 2003 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).