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Shop of
All Trades
From embroidery and screen printing, to garment dyeing
and sewing, Denver Print House does it all.
BY JOHN BURNS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

LARGE, HIGH-VOLUME printing shops don't just appear.
It takes years of hard work to grow into a successful
apparel-decorating business.
Such is true with Danny Gruninger's Denver Print
House, which he and his brother, Brandon, grew from
a two-man, 600-square-foot operation into a fullscale shop that boasts 45 employees.
"We started printing about 10 years ago,"
Gruninger says. "We started with just a
little manual press ... and we didn't really
know anything about printing. We basically
just learned everything from the ground up."
Building a Giant
You can label Denver Print House a lot of things,

but small isn't one of them. The
Gruninger brothers have grown
the company thanks to countless
hours of hard work, which also
resulted in the ability to invest
in more equipment and decorating
capabilities.
Denver Print House now operates
in a 35,000-square-foot facility
and, in addition to its four
automatic presses, it features 90
embroidery heads, two tunnel gas
driers, 15 flash units, a computerto-screen (CTS) system, and a dye
shop with six industrial washers
and six more complementary dryers.
Ironically, the company doesn't
work with many large-volume clients
- yet. "We do a lot of high-color,
low-quantity [jobs]; our average
run size is 144 pieces and the
average color amount is between
six and seven," he says.
That's not an especially large
amount per order considering
the volume the shop is capable
of producing, but that could be
because some of its equipment has
capabilities that most shops don't.
Rockin' with Roq

In addition to
screen printing,
Denver Print House
also boasts about
90 embroidery heads.

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I M P R E S S I O N S M A G . C O M MARCH 2016

Denver Print House purchased and
installed the first Roq Oval Pro
automatic screen-printing press in
the United States. It was added to
the company's other automatics, the
largest of which is a 16-station
press. Multiple stations greatly

Above
Denver Print House
co-owner Danny
Gruninger says
the shop's Roq
Oval Pro automatic
screen-printing
press has helped
attract new niches
and clients.



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Impressions - March 2016
Contents
First Impressions
From the Show Director
Overheard
First Look
Scene at ISS
On Design
Pretty Meets Practical
Use Bling to Boost Margins
IP Law: A Primer
Are Custom Orders Costing You?
Easy Does It
Shop Talk
Embroidery Production
Screen Printing Production
Sublimation
Direct-To-Garment
Heat Printing
Classifieds
Ad Index/Online Directory
Impressions - March 2016 - CT1
Impressions - March 2016 - CT2
Impressions - March 2016 - Impressions - March 2016
Impressions - March 2016 - Cover2
Impressions - March 2016 - 1
Impressions - March 2016 - Contents
Impressions - March 2016 - 3
Impressions - March 2016 - 4
Impressions - March 2016 - 5
Impressions - March 2016 - First Impressions
Impressions - March 2016 - 7
Impressions - March 2016 - From the Show Director
Impressions - March 2016 - 9
Impressions - March 2016 - Overheard
Impressions - March 2016 - 11
Impressions - March 2016 - 12
Impressions - March 2016 - 13
Impressions - March 2016 - 14
Impressions - March 2016 - 15
Impressions - March 2016 - First Look
Impressions - March 2016 - 17
Impressions - March 2016 - 18
Impressions - March 2016 - 19
Impressions - March 2016 - 19a
Impressions - March 2016 - 19b
Impressions - March 2016 - Scene at ISS
Impressions - March 2016 - 21
Impressions - March 2016 - On Design
Impressions - March 2016 - 23
Impressions - March 2016 - Pretty Meets Practical
Impressions - March 2016 - 25
Impressions - March 2016 - 26
Impressions - March 2016 - 27
Impressions - March 2016 - 28
Impressions - March 2016 - 29
Impressions - March 2016 - Use Bling to Boost Margins
Impressions - March 2016 - 31
Impressions - March 2016 - 32
Impressions - March 2016 - 33
Impressions - March 2016 - IP Law: A Primer
Impressions - March 2016 - 35
Impressions - March 2016 - 36
Impressions - March 2016 - 37
Impressions - March 2016 - Are Custom Orders Costing You?
Impressions - March 2016 - 39
Impressions - March 2016 - 40
Impressions - March 2016 - 41
Impressions - March 2016 - Easy Does It
Impressions - March 2016 - 43
Impressions - March 2016 - 44
Impressions - March 2016 - 45
Impressions - March 2016 - 46
Impressions - March 2016 - 47
Impressions - March 2016 - Shop Talk
Impressions - March 2016 - 49
Impressions - March 2016 - Embroidery Production
Impressions - March 2016 - 51
Impressions - March 2016 - 52
Impressions - March 2016 - 53
Impressions - March 2016 - Screen Printing Production
Impressions - March 2016 - 55
Impressions - March 2016 - 56
Impressions - March 2016 - 57
Impressions - March 2016 - Sublimation
Impressions - March 2016 - 59
Impressions - March 2016 - 60
Impressions - March 2016 - 61
Impressions - March 2016 - Direct-To-Garment
Impressions - March 2016 - 63
Impressions - March 2016 - 64
Impressions - March 2016 - 65
Impressions - March 2016 - Heat Printing
Impressions - March 2016 - 67
Impressions - March 2016 - 68
Impressions - March 2016 - 69
Impressions - March 2016 - 70
Impressions - March 2016 - 71
Impressions - March 2016 - Classifieds
Impressions - March 2016 - Ad Index/Online Directory
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Impressions - March 2016 - Cover4
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