The Screen Printing Process

            The screen printing process is very detailed and complicated.  At Badger, we like to work with our customers through the whole process to ensure you have complete satisfaction with your order. First, the customer places the order with the secretary over the phone, through email, or inside the shop. This is when the customer tells Badger which items they would like to print on and how many they would like to print. The items then get ordered and the customer can work with an artist who designs the artwork till the customer’s approval and then sets up the artwork.

            The artwork gets taken to the back to be made into a screen, which is easier said than done. This part of the process takes a few days. Each color of the design has to be made into a screen in order for the colors to be printed onto the material, such as a shirt or a hoodie. Once the shirts arrive in the shop, they get counted and stacked according to order specifics. On the due date, the shirts are taken into production. If both sides of the shirt are printed, or if there is a multiple color design, one side is printed and then it goes through the dryer. The dryer looks more like a toaster at Quiznos. After it goes through the dryer, they are stacked again and then the second side, or the second color, gets printed.

            After the shirts are all printed and dry, they get counted again and folded by size and boxed. The orders that need to ship get taken to the front. The work order gets taken to the front where the boss checks the prices. The work order then gets invoiced and we call the customers to come pick it up.