The Aussie Screen printing Club
Finally Australian Screen Printing is on the Aussie Map! The Aussie Screen Printing Club. It’s Screen Printer paradise! Listen to some of Australia’s finest screen print shops talk about their businesses, where it all started, how they grew, what to watch out for and marketing tips and traps. Your host it Sam Austrin-Miner from the Ministry of Shirts. Whether you are a basement, bedroom or big shop screen printer this show will add something to the discussion to get your ’inking hat’ on! Are you interested in featuring your Australian Screen Printing business on the show? Contact podcast@ministryshirts.com.au to find out more.
Episodes
Josh and Sam prattling away again. This time with Jacob from the Death Clique Printing Co (and brand!).
Shop Talk includes candid conversations about moving premises, pricing your jobs, Direct to Film and more.
Aussie Screen printers Club - Christmas Drop-In 2024 Listen in to the last podcast of 2024 with a number of drop in guests including:
Chook from Inked by Chook, Jason from Shed 76 & Tyler from Tee Shack.
Welcome back to a chat with Josh and Sam about their respective Screen printing businesses. Topics covered in this show include:
- What do you do when a customer supplies cruddy artwork?
- How do you arrange your Pantones?
- What business structure do you recommend?
- How and where do you get your sim process seps done?
- Do you prefer Diazo or no Diazo Emulsions and why?
- How long until you reclaim a screen?
- Charging for setups on repeat...
Josh and sam discuss the latest developments in their screen print shops. Discussion topics include Josh finally moving in to new premises! YAY! Coping with Staff taking leave. Websites and DECO Network shop management systems and more.
A where are we at chat between Josh and Sam on their screenprint journey. Has Josh finally moved to his new premises? Has Sam's new building commenced construction? Other topics include the semblance of a Market Downturn | Customers and their hexadecimal colour codes | and expanding your business overseas.
Want to send us your questions or come on the show? email us on aspc@ministryshirts.com.au
The boys have a bit of banter about running Screen Printing businesses. Topics covered include year end accounts, bookkeepers, outsourcing artwork proofing, bonusing staff, new washout chemicals ,laser engraving and promo products, standard operating procedures, Anatol presses, and more.
Chantal (aka Chook) learned the trade back in the 1990's by serving her apprenticeship and after a motherhood hiatus returned with a new screen printing enterprise called 'Inked by Chook'. A class act with a rubi-film background using waterbased at the coast at Yamba. She's passionate about the trade with and has an extensive experience in having the intel and starting from the ground up in her garage - we love garage screen printe...
In Just 2 years full time Nathan has grown his business in Screen Printing and Embroidery to a six colour M&R Manual and 18 heads for embroidery. He learnt the craft a few years back and moved from the side hustle to the whole-hustle in 2022 and have never looked back. Discussion topics include the pathway he took on getting to the level of equipment he now uses. Managing matrimonial harmony in a busy print shop with getting ti...
Starting in 2021 as a result of the economic downturn from Covid Matt Dixon from Heaps Good Merch on the Gold Coast talk us through how he went from a blue press to a factory shop floor. A story of breaking back pain to breaking the screen printing learning curve and expansion plans for the next year.
https://www.heapsgoodmerch.com.au/
One of the most inspiring stories about journeying into Screen Printing ever! Have a listen to the highs and lows of Jason's amazing story and how he established Shed 76 in Northern Queensland against all the odds! Jason was committed to Screen Printing for the long haul, quite literally!
Shop talk covers presses, ink types, coping with expansion and the stresses of running a business when you are constantly interrupted by customer...
Have a listen to Jodi Taylor the Founder and CEO of DRK LBL (formerly PSI) together with Mary Leishman on the Gold Coast in Queensland tell about their start and growth model including a complete re-branding exercise to place them as one of the leaders in Apparel Decoration for the Clothing Brand market place. Their unique approach to sales though Apparel Consultants and excellence in customer service, printing and embroidery packs...
Some good news for our listeners - we are officially back!
After a long hiatus with plenty of good reasons we are back in the booth with a new format for the show. Josh Paterson from North Print in Toowoomba has joined to the team as a co-host!
This is a kick start session but one that puts us back in the frame!
If you would like to know more about the show, ask a question or even becoming a guest just email us on: aspc@ministrysh...
Listen to one of the Screen print world's all time Masters of Simulated Process. Chris talks us through the learning curve of simulated process, managing a print shop to take time out but controlling his market and working with a wife who manages sales and marketing. Bonus information on stepping up to an auto without stepping into a millstone of a bank loan!
Shannon from Aisle6ix Industries - the Aussie Screen Printing Club Shannon shares about his journey through being a customs official, a builder, a barrista, screen printing and a screen print shop owner.
Jeremy shares how he managed the rapid growth cycle of Rockhill Screen Printing, the steps he took from developing his own press to 5,700 square footage of print shop. Featuring the Stampinator, Monarch Inks, Anatol Volt Presses, Auto-coating, and Auto-Reclaim systems!
Nik has been in the screen print industry since the late 90's and runs his own screen print-shop and clothing brand in North Sydney. CMYK on discharge. The perils of conveyor ovens. Tips for people getting started. All heads down printing on a manual press.
When a world class gym in the USA purchases its merch provider and starts printing in the room out the back of the facility everything changes. Doug Seamans is a a boss running two intertwined businesses and making the most out of the leverage he gets on profit on his garments.
Ever thought of doing some live screen printing? Take some tips from the mistakes we made and go for it!
Sam reflects on the Ministry of Shirts recent excursion into live screen printing at a music festival!
Some helpful tips and traps in this pod on what to do and what not to do!
The Aussie Screen Printer's Club: Jordan Gannaway. Project Print Co. & Onshore Threads
Jordan tells all on how he got started from a technical business plan for a clothing brand to his custom print shop in WA. Less than a few days away from getting in his first auto and having a shop with built in redundancy on presses and conveyor ovens. He has come up through the hard learning route that most of us have taken building his own pre...
Danny from the Flippin Sweet print Co in Bridlington, UK bares-all with us on his journey in the screen printed printed apparel world. A printer with a strong brand who has perfected the art of the soft-hand print with plastisol; on the verge (or precipice) of migrating to an automated press.
https://www.instagram.com/flippinsweetuk/
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