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Let’s Th(ink) About It: Wide-Format Textile Inks
Here’s a look at ink technologies common for wide-format textile printers, their strengths, and their primary applications. Dye-sublimation (also called…
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The Long View: Branding Your Brand
As a sign shop or commercial graphics provider you likely get many kinds of promotional projects to fulfill-product rollouts, special…
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Strategies to Sell Wholesale Items to Organizations for Fundraising
My suggestion is to promote two different strategies to an organization: selling inside and selling outside. Inside campaigns focus on…
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Additional Tools for Sandcarving Stone or Wood
If you’re working with stone or wood, I recommend having additional adhesive to apply to the back of your stencil…
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The Importance of Properly Leveled Screen Printing Platens
It’s a part of the screen printing press that is known by many names – platen, pallet, shirt board –…
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Designing Award-Winning Signs: Masonry Makeover
You receive a call from a local HOA who has a significant sized stone monument. They feel it’s time for…
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3 Tips for Printing in the Resort Wear Market
Resort wear can be an awesome opportunity for consistent work at a great margin. While a lot of the same…
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Digital Printing: How to Camouflage Banding in a Design
For a long time, the only way to reproduce a full-color image for garment decoration was through screen printing. However,…
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Inspecting and Replacing Sandcarving Nozzles
It is important to replace the sandcarving nozzle after it has worn 1/32 of an inch. Replacement is not mandatory,…
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Familiarize Yourself with the Software Before Your New Laser Arrives
Unless you have made special arrangements with your laser distributor, you are responsible for having a proper computer with proper…
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Boxed Illumination
Signage in a box – the venerable cabinet sign. In a completely elementary sense, that’s essentially what users are receiving…
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Move Past the Gray Area of White Underbase Printing
Almost nothing poses as big of a challenge for screen printers as printing white ink on dark-colored shirts. White ink…
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Vector Cutting Laser Foil
The colorful polyester laminate called laser foil is easy to use and adds value to gift items, plaques, ornaments, and…
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Word to the Wise: Adding Value through Novelty and Purpose
The possibilities for addressing why customers care are many. The examples below are a couple of ways to drive customer…
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The Long View: Safety First
Over the years, I’ve spoken with countless shop owners and production managers from a range of sign shops, grand-format print…
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Material Matters: Engraving Tech-Gadgets
Materials for consumer-tech products are relatively limited. Most gadgets are created from engravable plastic, bare aluminum, anodized aluminum, or stainless…
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