How to Choose a Specialty Screen Printing Company
To get the best results for your next specialty screen printing project, choose a screen print provider (also known as a “screenprinter”) with the experience, reputation, work habits, and knowledge to do custom screen printing work.
Here are ideas on how to find and choose the best specialty screen printing company for your project:
BASICS FOR CHOOSING A SCREEN PRINTER
Experience – Screen printing can be a complex process, and it’s especially so for specialty work. Experience matters! Having a depth of expertise means constantly refining and improving, adapting to new materials and inks, and understanding the craft from top to bottom. Experienced screen printers make fewer mistakes, understand customer needs, and use materials responsibly.
Reputation – Look for a printer who has strong testimonials and current recommendations from customers, colleagues, and vendors. The best providers of all types of specialty work are respected and known by their peers in the industry.
Work Habits – A reliable, high-quality screen printing vendor has a system for workflow and methods. Being process-oriented means your printer will achieve the best results, consistency, accuracy, and quality. Screen printing is a combination of precise steps, process knowledge, and practice. A specialty printer who has done many, many jobs over the years knows how to manage quality, get the most out of their materials, conserve goods, and work well with customers.
Knowledge – Unlike many other types of printing where getting things set up is the key to getting good results, specialty screen printing also requires consistency and accuracy on each pass. Deep knowledge is the foundation for producing specialty screen-printed work that customers love.
QUALITIES OF A SPECIALTY SCREEN PRINTING COMPANY
The best specialty screen printers share many attributes in experience and knowledge. It’s a bonus if your screen print expert also excels at the following:
- Planning and creativity for specialty projects
- Ability to visualize the finished product
- Patience for a multi-phased process
- Knowledge of specialty materials and their attributes to achieve optimum results
- Relationships for local sourcing if possible to minimize costs and keep our local economies robust
- Proper recycling along with the responsible disposal of supplies and materials
- Repeatable methods to achieve accuracy, consistency, and high-quality results throughout the print run
WHAT WE DO BETTER
At Specialty Screen Printing, we have all the characteristics of the best screen printing experts – plus a few things that set us apart.
Design Skills – We can help customers take a rough concept to the finished piece, whether it’s choosing type styles, colors, design elements, special effects, or creating the entire image.
Family Work Ethic – Our entire family participates in the business. We understand the commitment it takes to work respectfully with print buyers of all types and complete your project on schedule.
Easy to Work With – Some specialty screen printers won’t advertise that they’re easy to work with because they think it will attract customers who are too challenging. If anything, we find the opposite to be true. We have customers we have worked with for years and years.
Our loyal customers know we are always polite, respectful, prompt, professional, and focused on doing high-quality work for them. People underestimate the benefits of choosing a provider who makes your life easier.
We want to be a memorable part of your business day so that you say, “I enjoyed working with Ken, and I’m excited about my project.” If we can make one part of your day easier, that makes us happy.
WHY OUR CUSTOMERS LOVE SPECIALTY SCREEN PRINTING
Choosing the right specialty screen printing expert for your next custom-printed project can be the key to a smooth experience – and it can be the highlight of your day!
I invite you to get to know Specialty Screen Printing in Yamhill, Oregon, and experience the best that screen printing can be.
We value your trust in us!
About the author: Ken Johnson is the owner of Specialty Screen Printing in Yamhill, Oregon. Specialty Screen Printing serves customers in the greater Portland and Salem metro areas, along with industrial clients across the U.S. who choose Ken for quality and consistency, especially in color matching and his deep experience in working with unusual and specialty substrates.
