Screenprinters Radio: Recent Episodes
Bill Hood
Screenprinters are earnestly pursuing the perfect white ink and end up with dozens of unused gallons of ink on their shelves in the search. The truth of the matter is that the problem is not the ink, but rather the way in which it is being used.
Are you weighing your ink as it arrives at your shop? If not, you should be. The cost of ink, second only to labor cost, is an expendable that must be accounted for and should be done on a job-by-job basis.
If you want to increase the quality of your halftone or four-color process printing the information in this episode will provide some of the knowledge you need to begin.
The light integrator only measures the amount of UV energy emitted by the lamp, and it cannot provide proper exposures.
A discussion of problems that people face every day because they didn't apply thought to what they were doing.
You may be inadvertently causing problems with exposure and resolution. Let’s talk about it!
It's about initiating -- continually creating situations that force you to become better than you currently are — purging yourself of all your imperfections.
Learn how to find your normal and abnormal spoilage rates, and how to reduce your spoilage to increase your profit margin.
Become a fly on the wall as we walk a printer through knowing the correct exposure time before making the exposure each and every time, without fail.
A discussion about the relationship between the percentage of a stencil’s EOMR and the quality of the printed image.
There are many tools available to screenprinters and they are all great at what they do. But there is one that is a multipurpose tool that everyone needs and few are using.
In this episode, we discuss a number of problems that you can easily fix to make registration problems disappear.
The majority of textile printers do not realize that they are paying more than needed for Plastisol ink and using more than necessary.
This essential task of moisture removal should be one of the most straightforward tasks in the screenprinting process.
There are many reason why businesses don't make it, but undoubtedly, the primary culprit is a lack of profitable clients.
Every business person in the world, both in the screenprinting technologies or another other trade is faced with this same problem.
There are many reasons why screenprinting shops become embroiled in lawsuits, but there is one that can be completely eliminated immediately without cost.
Mesh preparation is the process of cleaning and treating the screen to improve stencil adhesion and superior stencil coating, and to improve stencil durability and performance.
Learn how one printer put an extra $300,000.00 each year in his bank when we made some small changes to his operation.
If you have thought about sending those large jobs to Mexico to get them printed for less, this podcast will help you accomplish your goals.
One expert claims we don't need a roadmap to turn out great work. That we all start and finish in the same place. Really?
Do you sometimes get slime on the squeegee side of your stencil? Here is how you can avoid it in the future.
Your success in the screenprinting technologies hinges on one important factor - meeting or exceeding the expectations of your client. Fail to accomplish that and nothing else you do will keep you in business for long.
How to reduce labor costs, which are among the highest values to screenprinters. A better way of improving your margins.
Every textile screenprinter is faced with the rejection of a job from time to time when the print washes out in the laundry. Learn how to prevent this problem in today's podcast.
Do you know what the real ink transfer tool is in screenprinting? You may be surprised to learn that it is not the squeegee.
A frank discussion of the real cost of creating a library of your screens to wait for the job to be printed at a later date.
How little things can make a big difference in your screenprinting process. Consider just two; the tension of the mesh, and the fill blade.
How to increase your sales by branding your company and attracting the right clients quickly and easily.
The step test does not work as you think it should. Why you never want to use the step test in an attempt to find the correct exposure necessary to fully cross-hardening the emulsion and achieve the ideal stencil resolution.