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We had an prospective embroidery customer upset with us some days ago and we’ve been thinking about this interaction since. The call started innocently enough. The customer wanted to get a quote for embroidering his logo on shirts and jackets. We explained that the price depended upon two things: the complexity of the logo to be embroidered, and the type …
If you really want your screen printed t-shirts and hoodies to stand out from the crowd, consider going with an oversized image to create a watermark effect on your garment. One of our clients is a youth motocross racing club from south of the Seattle-Bellevue area in Washington. For a number of years, they just went with a basic two …
A customer recently called asking us if we could create custom embroidered jackets for his car club. Of course we said we would love to do that, and we just needed to see the club’s logo in order to provide an estimate. “Well, that’s where there’s a problem,” he said. “We don’t have a logo; we just have some photos …
We were contacted about a potential embroidery or screen printing job by a Home Depot store near Tacoma, WA. The store had won a regional sales award and the manager was was looking for a way to recognize and reward its 150+ employees when the store was to be visited by senior executives. We started off talking about embroidered sports …
NUMBER 5: The embroidery shop is aligned with a single supplier. One of the top suppliers to the embroidery and screen printing world offers a nice service to decorators like us. They are eager to help new decorators get off the ground and will help the decorator build a “custom” website with a full catalog. Want to know how to spot one of …
The image above shows different beanies embroidered with the logo of one of our clients. If you were the client, which one would you prefer? When most people think of workwear embroidery, they usually think in terms of embroidered caps, shirts, and jackets. Caps, shirts, and jackets are a relatively easy medium with which to work. Most embroidery shops with decent …
We have general policy to not do work on customer-supplied items. As early as 2010 we wrote blog posts about five reasons why we instituted this policy. Nevertheless, every once in a blue moon we will find a peculiar circumstance that causes us to waive this for a particular client. This holiday season, we granted three waivers. “Maybe this time …
Periodically we have to dig through a box of old stitchouts of logos. During this process, we sometimes come across the embroidered logo stitchout we did for the Pointe du Hoc Foundation, whose original art is featured below. We always stop for a moment, partly to contemplate the challenge that cliff represented to those troops, and partly to admire the detail …
Every day we take calls from customers asking for quotes for various embroidery and screen printing jobs. We win some. We lose some. If we were losing all of them, we would interpret that as a signal that our pricing was too high. Conversely, if we were winning all of them, it would be wise to contemplate raising prices. We …
Dialing in the coloring with four color process screen printing is part software, part artistic judgment. We recently took a call from a Corvallis, Oregon customer, about 50 miles south of Portland. The customer needed this logo screen printed onto 100 t-shirts in time for the Washington State Fair, which is held about 50 miles south of Seattle. The lion’s share …
