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Connor McDonnell and his family have run STL Shirt Co in a variety of different formats. They've done their due diligence through trial and error and found that online stores are their bread and butter. Through learning the challenges of DTF and getting their...
Bruce and Steven chat with Matt Merklein, an entrepreneur who ran a manufacturing business in the early 2000s. While chatting with Bruce one day at a trade show, they noticed similarities in business models. What can screen printers learn from a manufacturing...
Bruce and Steven breakdown the Silicon Valley Bank chaos, the 4 distinct types of employees in every business, and how each type of employee can hinder or grow your business. Subscribe to the Printavo Youtube channel for more amazing interviews, shop tours, and...
Bruce and Steven chat on the neuroscience of trust in your business, the importance of annual reviews, and how the screen printing industry can learn from private equity firms. Harvard Business Review Subscribe to the Printavo Youtube channel for more amazing...
After a year of writing, our first book is now available to download for free. Who: Printavo founder Bruce Ackerman, Campus Ink co-owner Steven Farag, Adam Cook What: A 113-page guide to creating, growing, and sustaining a successful screen printing and apparel...
Want to kill your screen printing business? There's one sure-fire way to do it: do a bad job moving your shop. A lot of us started printing in our bedrooms, garages, and basements. As time goes on, a squeaky-clean warehouse with tons of space starts to seem like a...
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...
Most screen printing shops struggle with the leap from manual to automatic printing. It’s a common conversation across Facebook groups, on forums, at trade shows, and in conversations with screen printers that haven’t made the leap to automatic printing: “How do I...
Most screen printing shops struggle with the leap from manual to automatic printing. It’s a common conversation across Facebook groups, on forums, at trade shows, and in conversations with screen printers that haven’t made the leap to automatic printing:...
Want to make more money in your screen printing shop? Your onboarding process is the easiest way to do it. If the image below rings a bell – it's time to consider how you onboard new clients. Onboarding is a very fancy way of saying customer education. Custom printing...
Writing Terms and Conditions for your screen printing business is daunting. You’re a printer, not a lawyer – but you need rock-solid terms of service to prevent problems with your customers. Luckily, we’ll show you how to write your own terms of...
We received responses on our industry survey from 170 print shops. They vary in size and experience from long-time shops to startups. We asked 7 simple questions: How was revenue this year, compared to 2020? How were profits this year, compared to 2020? Did you sell...
