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  • Marketing Your Business to Past and Current Customers

    Marketing Your Business to Past and Current Customers

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    It has been repeatedly said that building customer relationships is integral to business. If you want to maintain a good and profitable business, draw in lots of customers.
    This does not mean though that you simply need to get new customers all the time and forget about your existing customers. It is important to remember that keeping old customers often translate to bigger sales than attracting new customers all the time. Why? Because your old customers already have knowledge of you

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  • Free Software for the Screen Printer

    Free Software for the Screen Printer

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    Computer graphics software, clip art, and fonts are an essential part of a t-shirt printing business. Even if your customers supply you with the artwork that you will print, you must still have the proper programs to view, adjust, and print the electronic art files.

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  • Screen Printing on Dark Colored Shirts

    Screen Printing on Dark Colored Shirts

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    Unlike printing on white or other light colored t-shirts, printing dark colored t-shirts can present certain challenges. There are certain tips and tricks to printing dark shirts. In this chapter, we try to cover everything you need to know about printing on darks ranging from the PFP (Print-Flash-Print) technique, to the proper mesh counts, to the time saving “coating stroke” technique.

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  • Keeping Test Prints

    Keeping Test Prints

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    Keeping information on orders is always a good idea. You should have a record system set up to retain all order information such as customer name, address, shipping address and contact information. You should also be recording for future reference, information pertaining to the quantity of the order, specific shirt brand and color you used and the ink color of the order. Having all this available makes it very easy when the customer wants to reorder.

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  • How to Choose the Right Mesh Count

    How to Choose the Right Mesh Count

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    Choosing the right mesh count for a particular print job is extremely important. The most important thing you need to know about mesh count is that the amount of ink deposited on the substrate is determined primarily by the mesh count.

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  • Hiring Employees for a Home Based Business

    Hiring Employees for a Home Based Business

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    Working from your home can present some challenges especially when it comes to hiring employees. There will be adjustments for 24758324you, as the employer and homeowner, as well as the individual(s) that you employ.

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  • Where to Buy Custom T-Shirts

    Where to Buy Custom T-Shirts

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    If you are looking for a place to purchase custom T-Shirts, visit our directory of suppliers.
    Directory of screen printers. Here is a list of screen printers providing custom screen printed t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, jackets and more. One site to find a complete list of reliable and experienced screen printers.

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  • How to Get Government Work For Your Screen Printing Shop

    How to Get Government Work For Your Screen Printing Shop

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    One thing most businesses would like to obtain are lucrative orders from the government. When most people think of “government orders” they typically think of the federal government. Getting orders from the federal government can be very difficult due to the mountain of paperwork and other bureaucratic obstacles that are in place. An often overlooked type of government work, is obtaining contracts from your local or state governments. For the purpose of this article, we have limited our discussion to securing local government work.

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  • T-Shirt Printers: Should You Go Digital?

    T-Shirt Printers: Should You Go Digital?

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    As you may know, digital printing a.k.a. DTG (Direct to Garment Printing) seems to be all the rage these days. But if you are planning to start a new t-shirt printing business, you may be asking if digital printing is the best way to start rather than a traditional screen printing shop.

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  • The Most Important Thing a Screen Printer Should Never Do

    The Most Important Thing a Screen Printer Should Never Do

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    Always remember this important rule: Never take on a job that exceeds your skill level. In good times or bad, most of us in the screen printing business are eager to take on new work.

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