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 more.

Timeline

1979 – Wrote How To Print T-Shirts For Fun and Profit!

1979 – Founded the U.S. Screen Printing Institute

1979 – Begin writing articles for the screenprinting industry, presenting seminars at various trade shows

1985 – Co-wrote, along with wife Pat Fresener, The Encyclopedia of Garment Printing

1989 – Impressions Magazine reader’s poll voted the Freseners “the most influential couple of the last ten years” and the Institute and books were voted the “best technical material and training in the industry” by the Impressions Magazine Quest for the Best competition.

1989 and 1992 – Scott and the Institute received the coveted Magnus Award from the Specialty Graphics Imaging Association for contributions to the industry.

1993 – Invited to be the “Textile Judge” for the first annual Asia-Pacific Screen Printing competition and trade show in Singapore.

1995 – Inducted into Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

1995 – Co-founded Screenprinter.net forum with son, Michael Fresener

1996 – Wrote a book titled The T-Shirt Book for a large national publisher.

1996 – Awarded the Screenprinting and Graphics Imaging Association’s prestigious Parmele Award

2001 – Featured in the documentary film The History of the T-Shirt.

2002 – One of Impressions Magazine‘s Top 25 Leading Industry Innovators.

2002-2004 – Chairman of the Specialty Graphics Imaging Association Textile Committee

2004-2007 – Board of Directors of Specialty Graphics Imaging Association Textile Committee

Over the years, Fresener has written over 250 articles for industry trade magazines. He continues to write articles on screenprinting and computer graphics, produce video and DVDs for the screenprinting and computer graphics industries.

He has also developed a software solution called FastRIP that allows film positives to be printed on an inkjet printer, and a shop management program called FastManager.