Sportswear is a popular revenue generator for many print shops, but for Compound Sportswear, finding a niche within that category has been a big part of its success. The company’s roots date to 2011, when owners Stephanie and Cliff Fretwell participated in a...
Production Management
How to Ship Products To Customers: 9 Steps for Shipping Screen Printed T-Shirts for Online Store Orders
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...
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...
Research: How Printavo Saves Print Shops Up To $35,000 Each Year
How Much Time and Money Can You Save With Printavo? We Found Out. Printavo's cloud-based shop management platform accelerates print shops’ growth by keeping them organized, streamlined and centralized. We help you accomplish this by using a simple interface and an...
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...
Power Scheduler
Print shops have a lot of questions. Questions like: How many jobs can we print today? How much spare capacity do we have? Can we use press #1 and #2 for this job, or are they taken? How do we track two different workflows at the same time? Power Scheduler is designed...
The Dos and Don’ts of Production Management for Screen Printing | Ryan Kasparian Interview
Ryan Kasparian (from coveredin.ink) took the leap to his own consultancy in 2020 after a storied 20+ year career in screen printing. Cutting his teeth in Chicago’s bustling Culture Studio and Denver’s high-tech Denver Print House, Ryan’s experience...
The 4 Best Blank Wholesale T-Shirt Companies for Printing
Buying wholesale t-shirts is not an easy task. There are dozens of websites that claim to sell wholesale t-shirts, but only a few are the real deal. Even worse, if you search "wholesale t-shirts," you'll find dozens of misleading articles with long lists of...
What Software Do I Need For Screen Printing?
Screen printing isn't just pulling a squeegee and dragging ink across a screen. There's a lot of software involved with making great screen prints. What works to help one shop print shirts might not work for another. But if you look at the forums and groups that...
15 Things Successful Print Shops Always Do With Printavo
Whether you’re new to Printavo or have been with us for years, there's a way to get even more out of Printavo. As Steven Farag from Campus Ink (a true Printavo power user) likes to say, "Printavo is an empty box and can hold whatever business you put into it....