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We have been doing screen printing since 1981 when my father, Jerry Powell bought and incorporated Color Graphix with Powell Embroidery. Screen printing is the most common way to apply a design to a garment. It involves color seperating artwork, creating "color traps" for the colors to over lap and line up correctly, making film positives, burning images to a silk screen (hence the name "silk screening"), blocking out any unwanted holes or images in the screen, then finally putting ink in the screen and pushing it through with a squeegee, and running the printed product through a high-temp dryer to bake the ink into the garment. When preformed properly, this process will provide a finished product wherein the ink will outlast the shirt. Most other screen printers use small dryers that only expose the garments to the correct temperature for a short period of time. Our dryers expose the garments to the proper temperature for about 2-3 minutes so you can rest assured our inks will outlast the garments they are printed on. Over the years, we have tryed several different things when it comes to screen printing. We have printed on anything from frizbees to date books to CD's and thermoses. We will try anthing once when it comes to screen printing on differnt types of media. So please feel free to contact us with any strange requests for screen printing on different media types.