The purpose of any training is to assure that the trainee has a thorough understanding of a task. Upon completion of the training, the trainee should know how to accomplish a given task, but more importantly why they should perform the task in a particular...
There are many reasons why businesses don’t make it. Having started and sold many businesses in my lifetime I have found that the most common reason is a lack of profitable clients. Yes, this sounds obvious, but unfortunately, many people do not consider this factor...
When attempting to print large areas of ink onto a substrate, the mesh often adheres to the printed surface. This can become problematic, especially in the instance of printing on textile materials. The ink will adhere to the mesh, and as the mesh pulls away,...
Do you ever feel like simply taking the phone off the hook, so you can get some work done? Are you spending more time on the phone updating customers about their job, or answering questions about how the job is coming along? It is not...
How many times have you had to make two or more strokes to achieve opacity? How many times have you exposed a stencil only to realize that the squeegee side was slimy and had that sinking feeling that the screen was underexposed and would probably...
It is quite common for an ink to penetrate absorbent substrates leading to a waste of ink and time needed to clean the ink from the platen or press bed. The cost of excessive ink transferred through the absorbent material can effectively double (or more)...
Registration can be one of the most nerve wreaking tasks in the screenprinting technologies for anyone who has to print multiple colors or produce a print that must register on the substrate perfectly with each print. You may be surprised that the downtime you experience...
The gears turn and indeed those of the screenprinting technologies turn as we solve the problems of our clients. Yes, as screenprinters, we are in the problem-solving business. And, just like the gears on a fine Patek Philippe watch must turn exquisitely, so must the gears...
Surveys confirm what our guts already know: We are enduring a “time famine”unknown to previous generations. Faced with urgent work, urgent errands, urgent texts, urgent emails, and a slew of other supposedly urgent tasks, we’re increasingly squandering our finite lives on the urgent at the...
What is an Entrepreneur? It is different things to different people. The Entrepreneur’s Journey was a collaborative film project produced by BIZNIK. The project began on May 6, 2009 when 12 video crews and over 400 entrepreneurs gathered in Seattle’s largest film production studio to...
Management By Objectives (MBO), also known as Management By Results (MBR), is a performance management approach in which a balance is sought between the objectives of employees and the objectives of an organization. The essence of Peter Drucker ’s basic principle: Management By Objectives is to...
With the New Year approaching, most of us start thinking about setting goals. While I won't disagree that setting goals are important, it is more important that you set goals that achievable and that won't be lost in the first few months of the year....
Business managers are responsible for setting a company's mission and goals and creating a strategic plan to guide the company to achieve its goals. Managers use a variety of tools and methods to inform decisions during the planning process including SWOT analysis and TOWS analysis,...
Payroll and project time-keeping paperwork is arguably the least favorite task for most owners and managers. Yet, if you don't keep up with it daily, the paperwork simply piles up and becomes an even bigger chore. The reality, however, is employees sometimes forget to clock in...
The gears of industry and indeed those of the screenprinting industry turn as we solve the problems of our clients. Yes, as screenprinters, we are in the problem solving business. But, many are not very good at solving their own problems of how to gain...
In this simple tutorial you will learn how to increase the resolution of a 72-dpi gif that is only 2.75-inches to a clean illustration that is 300-dpi and 8-inches. Watch this video!...
A few years ago, a screenprinter in the textile segment of the screenprinting technologies asked me if he could achieve automatic press quality on a manual press. This is my answer to him...
Boldly facing each day with a passion-packed purpose is the shield that stands between you and the negative chants “it can’t be done,” or “what makes you think you can start your own business.” It’s your weapon against the daily grind. A clearly defined purpose...
It should come as no surprise that your online business existence is being controlled to a huge extent by others; the myriad review services, your clients with their ability to post poor reviews, the search engines, your internet hosting service, and now the U.S.A. government....
Who hasn't been faced with a client standing at the front desk with a 1-inch high, 72-pixel per inch inch and asking them to enlarge it to 12-inches? Of course, they don't understand art, pixels, enlarging and the subsequent loss of data that will produce...
The selection of durometer, which is measure of the hardness of the polyurethane squeegee blade expressed in terms of the Mohs Scale. This article shows the results of different squeegee durometers....