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  • Shades of Blue

    Shades of Blue

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    A local roofing contractor orders about a dozen sweatshirts every two years or so. We printed his sweats with navy ink on ash colored shirts – pretty standard. About a week later, I get a call from the guy complaining [...]

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  • Cash for Clunkers

    Cash for Clunkers

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    I run my business out of my house. It was late on a Friday when a customer stopped over to pick up an order. He drove an old van that would not start back up if he turned the engine [...]

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  • Trading in WV

    Trading in WV

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    My shop is in the hills of West Virginia. Well, one of my customers ordered (100) poly foam caps for his family reunion. Luckily, I took a cash deposit from him for the order because when he came to pick [...]

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  • Busted in Bloomington

    Busted in Bloomington

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    I had a regular customer call with a referral. They were going to send over a new customer who wanted to have some softball shits done. It sounded great, what better way to get a new customer than through a [...]

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  • PU in Pittsburgh

    PU in Pittsburgh

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    We once had a customer who wanted us to print (100) pairs of "tighty whities" for a frat party. We took on the job. When the underwear was delivered, we discovered that the tighty whities were used. PU in Pittsburgh. [...]

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  • Tense in TX

    Tense in TX

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    Deadlines can be stressful enough just trying to get the work done and out the door to meet. But my customer insisted on being present while the shirts were being printed. The job was for a golf outing and we [...]

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  • Red Faced in LA

    Red Faced in LA

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    We once had a woman walk into our shop who wanted to know if we could print photographs on T-shirts. We told her we were able to do that. She opened up her purse and pulled out a stack of [...]

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  • Careless in Chicago

    Careless in Chicago

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    After printing the right hip print of (100) black sweatpants, the printer became kind of tired of looking at the print. When packing the pants at the end of the job, we noticed that he printed the butt of (1) [...]

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