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pressing issues

recap: The compleTe screen prinTing Business course
Screen Printing magazine's Associate
Editor Kiersten Wones and Assistant
Editor Kelsey Johnson traveled to the
Atlas Screen Supply facility outside of
Chicago for Terry Combs' Complete
Screen Printing Business Course over
the weekend of June 10-11. Seventeen
other screen printing hopefuls from as
far away as Florida and North Dakota
attended the two-day class. Some
brought experience in the sign business,
DTG printing, and embroidery; others
hailed from backgrounds as diverse as
real estate and firefighting.
Combs and the Atlas team led a variety of hands-on and classroom sessions
covering everything from screen printing
a one-color white shirt on a manual press
to pricing, specialty inks, and prepress
tips. Future entrepreneurs came away
with a good understanding of all the
machines and materials needed to open

nazdar's mike Fox
announces
reTiremenT
Mike Fox, president of nazdar
since 1991 and a 40-year
employee of the thrall family
organizations (owners of
nazdar), has announced his
retirement effective at the end
of 2017. richard Bowles, who
joined the organization as Vp
of marketing in 2002 and is
currently president of the manufacturing division nazdar ink
technologies, will be promoted
to president of nazdar effective
January 1, 2018.
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up shop; the different types of squeegees,
mesh counts, and inks required for various jobs; tips and tricks for marketing
a business, ranging from business card
design to naming your shop; and more.
We printed four T-shirts with plastisol inks: a one-color on white, a fourcolor on white, a five-color simulated
process print on black, and a black shirt
with puff ink and foil. Trial and error
was the name of the game; it took most
students four or five squeegee strokes
to lay down ink on our first shirt. By the
end of the second day, we'd all settled
into a rhythm.
We also degreased, coated, and
burned screens; flash cured white underbase for a full-color print; ran shirts
through a conveyor dryer and measured
ink temperature to ensure proper curing;
and learned the secret to setting up a
multicolor job in under five minutes.

Top Value FaBrics acquires
paciFic coasT FaBrics

Teespring reporTedly
resTrucTures

Top Value Fabrics has announced its acquisition of Pacific Coast Fabrics, a California-based
textile provider. Effective November 1, both
entities will operate under the Top Value Fabrics name with all current products continuing
distribution. The merger aims to expand Top
Value's product offerings, strengthen distribution networks, and grow its global reach.
The 100-percent employee-owned company
reports the Pacific Coast team will join its ownership plan, according to a release.

teespring, the online custom t-shirt
marketplace startup, has recapitalized its stock in what is being
described as a financial "cram
down." The Wall Street Journal
reports that teespring is currently
raising new financing at a company
valuation of about $11 million,
compared to previous valuations as
high as $650 million. the financial
restructuring comes on the heels of
steep workforce layoffs first reported
in May of 2017 and the closure of its
providence, rhode island headquarters last year. in The Wall Street
Journal article, teespring Vp Chris
Lamontagne was quoted as saying
that "restructuring the company was
a difficult decision, however, making
these changes enables us to run a
healthy and profitable business
moving forward." He also cited
changes to Facebook advertising
rules as among the challenges the
company and its sellers have faced.

indusTrial inkjeT opens
us-Based FaciliTy
industrial inkjet UK has announced the
creation of a US-based subsidiary. industrial inkjet USA has opened an office in the
Denver suburb of golden, Colorado, and
named graham Vlcek president of the new
operation. iiJ reports the driving force
behind the move was to allow American
customers to conduct business with a
US-based company during normal work
hours and in US dollars.



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