Tips
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Pricing Your Laser Services and Paying Yourself Fairly
Determining a fair salary to use in calculating pricing when you start a business is challenging. You may be able…
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Do’s and Don’ts for Maintaining Vehicle Wraps
Can car wraps be washed or waxed? Can a protective coating be applied? Having these answers on hand ensures your…
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Quick Tips for Tightening Bits and Collets on Your CNC
In this video, Ryan Drapela, the owner of Texas-based Drapela Works, shares his top tips for tightening bits and collets on…
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Hire Slow, Fire Fast: Managing Employees Post-Pandemic
Rules matter: When bad behavior goes unpunished, the entire team suffers. In Part 2 of this series, we talked about…
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Tap into Package Printing with UV Technology
Using direct-to-substrate printing, capture attention with packaging that shows it’s not just what’s inside that counts. There are many ways…
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A Word on Consistency and Customer Service
In the signage and printing industry, consistency is a big part of customer service. Initially, we think of customer service…
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Try This: Laser Engraving a Trinket Box
In this step-by-step Try This tutorial, you’ll learn how to turn a simple medal/coin box into a meaningful, cherished custom…
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Tips for Making the Jump from Manual to Automatic Screen Printing
Think it might be time for your screen printing shop to upgrade from a manual press to an automatic? An…
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How Font-Finding Software Can Boost a Sign Shop’s Productivity
In the early ’90s, when I started in the sign industry, the number of fonts we typically chose from for…
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5 Good Reasons to Expand into DTG Printing
No matter if your business is screen printing, dye-sublimation, or even commercial print, you’ve undoubtedly been impacted by commerce migrating…
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Beyond Custom T-Shirts: Thinking of Expanding into Hard Goods?
If you have a business that offers printing on-demand, you’ve probably had requests to personalize all types of items, from…
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Managing Employees Post-Pandemic: Build a Career Path
The CFO asks, “What if we invest in them and they leave?” The CEO says, “What if we don’t, and…
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Why Surface Energy Matters for Wraps
One of the early challenges of films is not knowing how well they will adhere to a surface. For example,…
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Introducing UV Printing to Your Business
Like it or not, we live in an age of rapidly evolving technology where it’s become essential to diversify to…
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Image Sizing Techniques
Converting a postage stamp into a billboard can be a daunting task. Because how an image is enlarged affects the…
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45-Year Print Veteran Shares Business Success Tips
Competitive advantage — what does that really mean? It means a company is better at doing what it does than…
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