Not here for shirts?
For printers, shops, and people who want to learn
Most of this site is for people buying apparel. This page is for everyone else — printers learning the trade, shops that need water-based work done, and owners looking for better software.
If you want to learn to print
I teach this trade, mostly for free
I've been printing since 2017 and running a shop out of my house for most of that. Along the way I started publishing what I learned, because the information I needed early on was either locked up or wrong. Start with the free stuff — the paid things only make sense once you know you like this.
The hub
Startup Screen Printing
Where everything starts. Free resources, plus the way into the course, the challenge and the communities below. If you're not sure where to begin, begin here.
Visit →Free · 120+ videos
YouTube
Water-based technique, DTF, artwork and separations, pricing, equipment reviews, and the business side of running a shop out of your house. Free, and the biggest single body of what I know.
Visit →Course · $29, lifetime access
Screen Printer's Guide to Business
Six-plus hours on the part nobody teaches: audience, pricing, production, systems, customer support and marketing. The business, not the squeegee.
Visit →Challenge · $10
Print for Profit Challenge
Three sessions with Jonathan Overmyer of Golden Press Studio on profitability, positioning, pricing and growth. Replays and session PDFs included.
Visit →Free Discord · shop owners
The Print Crew
A community for people who already run a shop and want to talk real decisions with peers rather than consume more content. You don't have to be big, but you do have to be serious.
Visit →Waitlist · $20/mo when it opens
Screen Print Collective
Technique-first membership with Jennifer Sanderson — monthly live trainings and troubleshooting real projects. For printers past the basics. It's waitlist-only right now.
Visit →Free directory
Screen Printing Toolbox
The equipment, software and supplies I actually use and recommend, in one place, so you can skip the part where you buy the wrong thing first.
Visit →Also published and interviewed at
The Apparelist
Podcast interview
Interviewed on the Apparelist podcast about discounting, plus video segments on water-based color matching, choosing a niche, and email marketing for print shops.
Ryonet · ScreenPrinting.com
Guest contributor
Guest articles on Ryonet's blog, including the story of going from graphic designer to running a water-based shop of my own.
If you run a shop
Send me the water-based work you'd rather not take
Plenty of shops are set up for plastisol and would rather not retool a press for one soft-hand job — or are simply full that week. I'll take it. Water-based and discharge are all I run, so it isn't a favor, it's the normal work here.
Water-based and discharge
The jobs that don't suit a plastisol shop. Soft-hand prints on triblends, discharge on darks, anything where the customer will notice the print sitting on top.
Overflow when you are full
One press here, so I'm honest about capacity rather than optimistic. Ask what the week looks like and you'll get a real answer before you promise your customer anything.
White label, your customer
Your client stays your client. Custom neck labels available, so what ships can carry their brand rather than anyone else’s.
Contract work is quoted per job — send the details and I'll tell you straight whether the week works.
If your software is the problem
I build the tools I wanted for my own shop
The ordering system you'd use as a customer here — live pricing, artwork upload, the chat that quotes — I built that. It exists because I got tired of watching people wait days for a number. Turns out other shops have the same problem, so I build for them too, under Operator Stack: websites, Airtable systems, custom apps, and a few products of my own.
I'm a certified Airtable developer, and four of the apps I've built are in production right now, used by shops around the country.
Buying shirts, not printing them?
Then none of this page is for you — head back and price your job in under two minutes.