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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by GraphicDisorder on Today at 01:27:11 PM »
Quote from: Homer on Today at 12:12:16 PM
we're up...then down...then up again, then dead....then balls to the balls...then dead again......it's fun. I'm having fun...this is all fun, right?.....stupid ass industry.  ::)

This is not remotely a screen print industry thing. I run with a lot of business owners in a car group we have. Some of these guys move billion a year. Most have businesses in the 25-150 employee range though. Every one of them say what you say above. Killing it one second dead as a door nail the next. Rinse and repeat. In general most of them have seen wilder swings than I have even. Most are level to slightly up or down currently. Some are way down though. None way up.

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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by Homer on Today at 12:12:16 PM »
we're up...then down...then up again, then dead....then balls to the balls...then dead again......it's fun. I'm having fun...this is all fun, right?.....stupid ass industry.  ::)
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General Art Discussions / Re: How is everyone handling AI submitted artwork?
« Last post by Homer on Today at 12:10:13 PM »
Quote from: farmboygraphics on Yesterday at 12:05:48 PM
I use AI to cleanup AI. Canva has some very useful tools and vectorizer .ai after I've cleaned it up. If it's not sized right I tell them to do it again, they fix it or wander off, makes no difference to me.

I do the same, I upload their garbage art and tell it to recreate this in high resolution....then charge for it.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by Frog on Yesterday at 08:27:12 PM »
"Leaning towards semi-retirement and turning the front end of the shop into a small comic book store."

When I moved to Walnut Creek CA about forty years ago, I was still really into comic books and trading cards. I was pretty happy to find Joe Fields and his "Flying Colors" comic book shop locally, though I mostly bought new through a wholesaler.
As my son got older and eventually moved out, my interest waned. Last comics I bought new were the Preacher series.
I was also a late blooming fanboy of The Sandman which as I read as graphic novel collections.
I have since not even opened my boxes of golden and silver age treasures in twenty years, but will soon be moving them to our new farm/ranch in Byron and going through them, and falling in love all over again.

The cards will be my boy's responsibility, and of course, eventually so will the comics, and for that matter, probably the farm.
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General Art Discussions / Re: How is everyone handling AI submitted artwork?
« Last post by Frog on Yesterday at 07:24:44 PM »
My last year or so, I kept getting some good creative stuff made in Canva, but nine out of ten did not know about resolution or size needed for shirts.
Reminded me of the early years and everyone and their brother had a bootleg Photoshop 4, and used the default resolution of 72 on their already-too-small creations. We called them "Digital da Vincis"
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Screen Making / Re: Screen Room LED's
« Last post by ebscreen on Yesterday at 12:17:14 PM »
Appreciate the info/offer. I used a simple uv sensor just to make sure there wasn't some anomaly,
and also just tested a screen over three days to double check that it was actually the lights. If I was a smarter person I would have tested
the panels *before* installing. Screens are stored in the open (in the screen room) so any lighting will have to not
cause issues over the long term. Looking into windows tint films now...
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General Art Discussions / Re: How is everyone handling AI submitted artwork?
« Last post by farmboygraphics on Yesterday at 12:05:48 PM »
I use AI to cleanup AI. Canva has some very useful tools and vectorizer .ai after I've cleaned it up. If it's not sized right I tell them to do it again, they fix it or wander off, makes no difference to me.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by farmboygraphics on Yesterday at 12:00:31 PM »
Swamped for a one man shop. All my regulars and a few new customers sprinkled in. Leaning towards semi-retirement and turning the front end of the shop into a small comic book store. The business is more than paying the bills and allowing me some play time.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by GraphicDisorder on Yesterday at 08:15:51 AM »
Similar to last year. More sporadic though for sure. Had a great last month prolly 3rd best month ever but other than that every month been pretty normal to slight up or slight down.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Awful quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Last post by mk162 on July 03, 2026, 12:51:08 PM »
Quote from: 1964GN on July 03, 2026, 11:45:26 AM
So, how is everyone doing? We are even with last year but with fewer employees. It never really slowed down and our contract numbers are up and retail is down. We get a lot of "Our old printer isn't in business anymore."

We have some huge contract projects in the works that could make the last quarter of this year bigger than the total of last year.

Our largest contract customer fell off of a cliff, another has more work that we can handle. It's been a crazy year so far.

We are up a bit from last year, and last year was a great year. It seems like when one customer leaves, a bigger one replaces them.
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