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CONTENTS

DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018
Volume 108 / Number 6

THE MARSHALL PLAN

08 Setting Your Sights Lower

Marshall Atkinson
How many times have you tried (and failed) to start a new year
with lofty, unachievable goals? What if you were to instead set a
number of smaller, short-term goals for yourself and your shop?
Marshall Atkinson dives into the work ethic of "micro-ambition."

SHOP TALK

40 'Bad Santa' Makes His List and Checks
It Twice

Andy MacDougall
As 2017 draws to a close and many people scroll through list after
list detailing "the best of" the past year, Andy MacDougall reflects
on the good, bad, naughty, and nice players in the screen printing
industry spanning the past 12 months.

ABOUT THE COVER
The one constant in
specialty printing is
innovation - the spark of an
idea that takes the industry
in an entirely new direction.
Photo © Per Bengtsson /
shutterstock.com. Cover
design by Kelly Farrar.

DEPARTMENTS
04
06
10
37

EDITORIAL INSIGHTS
PRESSING ISSUES
NEW PRODUCTS
AD INDEX

38
39

DISTRIBUTOR/DEALER
DIRECTORY
CLASSIFIEDS

INNOVATION IN SPECIALTY PRINTING

Balancing the Risks and Rewards
of Adopting an Innovation

The Advent of
CTS Technology

Mark A. Coudray

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Do you remember the purchase of
your first cellular phone, and later,
smartphone? Integrating a truly disruptive
innovation into your business involves
weighing various pros and cons and
deciding when, exactly, to take the
plunge. Understanding the process of
innovation can help you to make strategic
and economic decisions when it comes
to transformative technology.

Kiersten Feuchter
Getting artwork onto a printready screen was traditionally a
time-consuming endeavor. Computer-to-screen technology
has simplified the process dramatically, but it took a long
time after the invention for the idea to truly take hold. Hear
from early and late CTS adopters on how this technology
has saved their operations both time and money.

When Single Pass
Took Flight

The Dawn of Simulated
Process Color

20

Steve Duccilli
During a time when realistic images on T-shirts
were in demand and printers were struggling
with the intricacies of process color printing
on garments, one screen printer developed
an entirely different approach that
took the garment industry by storm.

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Steve Duccilli
Perhaps no technology in the history
of the industry has been as highly
anticipated as single-pass printing,
but it dates back farther than most
realize. Discover how the first dropon-demand single-pass system
came to be, and why the technology
- many years later - seems poised
to gain market traction.

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