If you run online stores, you must ship every single product correctly. Every single time. With the growth of fundraisers run by print shops (and dozens of other online store success stories), it's obvious that screen print shops have a huge opportunity thanks to...
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So What Is “Inktavo” Anyway?
We’ll cut to the chase: last year, Printavo, InkSoft, and GraphicsFlow joined forces to create Inktavo. Inktavo is a new family of software solutions to help print shops, promotional product distributors, and branded merchandise businesses succeed. Look for this...
8 Best Software to Run A Successful Embroidery Business
Embroidery management software is how embroidery businesses grow their sales, increase their productivity, and deliver products faster to customers. Embroidery design software is how embroidery businesses digitize, customize, organize and create the complex files...
How To: Make a Screen Printing Pricing Matrix (Free Download)
The #1 question screen printers and print shops have is "How do I set my prices?" This is a topic as controversial as it is difficult – every shop we talk to at Printavo has a different strategy for their screen printing pricing. That's why we built the screen...
The Best Screen Printing Pricing Strategy? Using Contribution Margin
In 2018, when I started at Printavo, Steven and Bruce and I sat down and tried to develop a screen printing pricing matrix that any shop could use. The theory was simple. We know the calculation that shops make to get to their prices, so let’s link it back to to their...
Shop Tour | Print Renegades: The Vibey-est Screen Printing Shop in Los Angeles
Join Print Renegades in Los Angeles for a shop tour with a truly unique vibe. Started in 2012, Print Renegades serves a broad customer niche: “we can do one piece on our DTG printer or we can do thousands.” The biggest tool they use to grow? Word of mouth. “Companies...
How To: Soft Screen Printed T-Shirts | Soft Hand Screen Printing
Whether you're a customer that wants a soft screen print, or a screen printer that wants soft hand prints, here's how to get softer screen prints. You can get soft screen printed t-shirts (even with plastisol ink) but there are a few things you should know first....
Inktavo and Supacolor Announce Partnership to Deliver New Educational Opportunities
Supacolor, a wholesale heat transfer leader, and Inktavo, a software solutions provider for the apparel decoration industry, have announced a partnership to deliver new educational opportunities and resources to support mutual customers. By combining Inktavo’s...
Are T-Shirt Wholesalers Undercutting Print Shops?
For a while now, we’ve heard rumors and stories that the major blank t-shirt wholesalers sell their products online under different brand names. Consumers can order the products with no resale certificate or tax ID number and simply send them to print shops to have...
Inktavo and ROQ.US Partnership | Advancing the Apparel Decoration Industry
Inktavo and ROQ.US Announces...
CTS & DTS Systems for Screen Printing: How Much It Costs and When to Buy It
CTS (computer-to-screen) or DTS (direct-to-screen) imaging systems cost between $30,000 and $80,000 USD, so they're a major investment for any screen printing shop. Our CTS calculator shows some amazing data. If your screen print shop makes just a couple dozen screens...
How Screen Print Shops Can Survive A Recession
It looks a recession is on. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow forecast is -1.0% for Q2 2022:* Remember: a recession is technically defined as a decline in GDP for two consecutive quarters. But whatever you do, don't panic just because there are a few new lines...