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We've documented amazing screen printing shops, interviewed print industry leaders, and hosted an incredible conference in 2019. Bridget and Luke from Printavo teamed up to bring you a recap from a busy year. Here are 10 of our favorite videos from 2019. 10. DTG vs....
Why are you doing this all of this? Financial freedom? Happiness? Why did you pick up this book and read it? These are the pressing questions you must ask yourself before starting. You have decided to start your own business and therefore you have to define your own...
New to the printing industry? Contract printing might be a foreign concept. But it can be something you rely on to launch your business. Contract printing is a business-to-business practice where the customer shop supplies the raw products and print-ready artwork to...
Make your customer’s final impression your best impression. After you complete the printing and decoration process, you have to finish strong. You’ve worked hard to successfully produce your product, so you need to create a system for follow-through during...
Looking for an easy way to mount an iPad, phone, or tablet to your screen printing press? Need to put Printavo straight onto your screen printing press? Check out what the team at Family Industries in Los Angeles does: they mount Printavo straight onto their ROQ...
Now that we are through the basics of order intake, we can begin looking at your company’s pre-production workflow. Ask yourself these two questions: What am I offering to my customers? How can I create a system for seamless, cost-effective and...
Attention screen printers: raise your prices! No more looking at your competitor’s price matrix to undercut their print cost by ten cents. Inflation, wages, garments, equipment, tariffs, debt. There is a perfect storm conspiring against you. The...
One of the best parts of running a business is working with so many different types of people. Ironically, this is a very challenging part as well. In our shop, it always seemed like the art proof and approval process brought out the most frustration. The...
So your shop is open for business and ready to accept orders. Implementing a simple, repeatable process for building orders is how you fulfill jobs quickly — and make money! This short chapter will demonstrate how to best build and execute new orders, talk about...
Before you fire up your presses and start decorating, make sure that you have a standardized workflow. In custom decoration, workflow refers to the stages a custom print job must pass through from start to finish. In later chapters, we’ll go into detail about...
Located just 20 miles outside of Chicago, Printavo's home city, The M&R Companies headquarters is a massive 320,000+ square foot screen printing machine manufacturing facility. It's a fitting home for one of the world's most respected screen printing...
You’ve set up your equipment, trained your employees and built a storefront. Now what? Are you as legit as a new Apple store in downtown New York City, with customers waiting to bust through the doors and order apparel? While we all dream about that kind...
