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Press On: Real Talk with Print Shop Owners Amid COVID-19

Ryan Moor
Three weeks ago, our friends Tom, Rick, Pam, and Brett from the Ink Kitchen reached out to Impressions, Ryonet, and Bella+Canvas to help create a series that documents the journeys, thoughts, and opinions of different shop owners and garment decorators across the country as we all navigate through this together. The series launched on Bella’s YouTube channel with Episode 1 and continued on Ink Kitchen's YouTube channel last week. 

Sandilake: Chum for the Sharks or a Breath of Life?

Ryan Moor

“What if we could close the circle and build a story for the shirt?” The T-Shirt has always been a part of our story at Ryonet. They are the canvas of the print, the billboard of this generation. Screen printers bring stories to life on t-shirts. Your prints share a message, create pride, and build […]

Featured Screen Printing Shop: Pop Octopus

AR Department

What is your role and the name of your screen printing business? Owner and Chief Weirdo at Pop Octopus What is the story behind your screen printing business? “I had a degree in graphic design and illustration but was working crappy restaurant jobs with some freelance design on the side. I decided it was time […]

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Printers On Press: Pirate Ninja Print Shop

Emily Rogers

We’re “changing Rockford, one t-shirt at at time,” said Jarrod Hennis, owner of Rockford Art Deli and Pirate Ninja Print Shop, during our most recent episode of Printers on Press. This unique shop sits in the heart of Rockford, IL, and features both a custom production printing shop and boutique store. Just one of the […]

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Featured Screen Printing Shop: Muckles' Ink

AR Department

Can you tell me a little bit about your screen printing shop? “Muckles’ Ink is small to mid-size print shop based in Binghamton, NY. We focus mainly on local commercial orders, contract printing, University work, and live on-location printing. We have a six over four, a four over one, and a travel four over one. […]

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One Screen Printers Answer: When Should I Automate?

Ryan Moor

A common question that we hear from manual screen printers is always “ When should I automate?” In fact, it’s such a commonly heard question that TJ and our education crew created a special course just to help manual screen printers learn the ins and outs of running an automated screen printing shop. From how […]

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Featured Screen Printing Shop: Deluxe Screen Printing

AR Department

What is the story behind Deluxe Screen Printing? I was working for a national screen printing business for almost 11 years, starting in the mid to late 90s’s. At the time, all of the production was going to China and overseas and they were selling to Walmart, Mervin’s and a few other department stores. Unfortunately, […]

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Featured Screen Printing Shop: Printed Threads

Jessica Marshall

Can you tell me a little bit about your screen printing shop? “Printed Threads was started in 2010 in my garage, so this year we are six years old. And we’ve grown a lot, very quickly. We ordered four ROQs from you guys this year, so basically we’ve gone from one manual press in a […]

The Cooler Side To Screen Printing Baby Clothes

AR Department

Screen printing baby clothes isn’t just about making cute pink and blue onesies for Sarah Soliz, of Riot Baby screen printing. A former marketing professional in the business finance world (and avid lover of black), Sarah started her journey into screen printing when her second pregnancy lead to an unexpected layoff. But this disappointing parting […]

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Featured Screen Printing Shop: Nothing Too Fancy Printing

Ryonet Collaborator

Dustin Burnett started the retail store, Nothing Too Fancy, only three and a half years ago. Now the largest retail and contract print shop in Knoxville, his was the first boutique t-shirt store to hit the city. “We typically do vintage style t-shirts,” Dustin said. “Our retail store, without any intentions, has turned into a […]

 

Shop Feature: Lone Mountain Printing | Colin Shane

Jessica Marshall

Lone Mountain Printing is a high production water based only screen printing shop, and the pride and joy of Bozeman, MT. The motto for their shop is “Apparel Worth Wearing” which, owner and operator, Colin Shane, explained means that “if it isn’t worth wearing, for me, then it isn’t worth selling.” This is a motto […]

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ROQ Screen Printing Testimonials: Texas Print Solutions

AR Department

“Texas Print Solutions (formerly Teamline) started printing as an all manual shop with M&R® presses. We decided to look into an automatic when we barely were able to print all the orders coming in this last summer. The orders were there, but the auto was not. The issue with other automatics is that the setup […]

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