Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business: A User's Guide to Printing and Selling T-shirts [Paperback]

Charese Mongiello (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business provides the mentorship for both beginning and experienced entrepreneurs to obtain a solid step-by-step education on how to silk screen, sell the finished products, utilize available resources, and purchase the best equipment.In conjunction with their family's company, Charese and Anthony Mongiello have relied on their more than twenty years of experience to help more than six thousand people launch and successfully operate their own T-shirt print shops. Together, the Mongiellos show you how much fun and easy it is to print T-shirts and make money doing it. The Mongiellos leave no stone unturned as their professional guidance teaches:Profit expectations from immediate to long-rangeSales and marketing techniques specifically tailored for a silk-screening businessBasic materials neededThe ins and outs of the printing processProcedures on burning a silk screen and obtaining artworkUses of the leading types of inksSilk-screening has quickly become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the past few years. Potential business owners will appreciate the expert leadership provided by the Mongiellos as they gain extensive knowledge about the silk-screening business and the lucrative opportunities it offers!

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About the Author

Charese and Anthony Mongiello, expert silk-screeners who have over twenty years of experience, grew up watching their parents build a successful T-shirt print shop. Charese and Anthony live in California, where Charese is pursuing her dream of becoming an actress and Anthony is working as a photographer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (October 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595478646
• ISBN-13: 978-0595478644
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book on screen printing ever !!!, May 9, 2009

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Mats Ohr "Mats" (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business: A User's Guide to Printing and Selling T-shirts (Paperback)

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SCREEN PRINT !! First off, half of the book is just an outdated appendix of screen printing suppliers (information you can google for free in an instant) The rest of the information on the actual screen printing process is VERY vague and there are no real descriptions or step-by-step illustrations. The book is really all about promoting a company called homecashbusiness, that sells screen printing supplies and screenprinting start-up packages. The book also looks very amateurish (cover is blurry from low-resolution printing and the layout/text is not done by a professional graphic designer)

Buy "Print Liberation" or the classic "How to Print T-Shirts for Fun and Profit" if you want to learn this business...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waisted ink!, November 28, 2009

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Mr. Smith "Pepperdragon" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business: A User's Guide to Printing and Selling T-shirts (Paperback)

Save your money! Not a good book to start with or at all - shows little about the process of screen printing, nothing about starting a business and seems more of an add for the company that sells screen printing equiptment(Home Cash Business). Put your money into another book. It's to bad that I can not give a negative star for this book or I would have!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Bad, December 23, 2008

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Neon Tiger "Slim" (Saint Cloud, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business: A User's Guide to Printing and Selling T-shirts (Paperback)

This book was a waste of money. I had already read "How to print T-shirts for fun and profit" and was looking for another good screen printing book when I stumbled across this one. It looked good so I bought it but it is just a very quick and basic overview of the process, it doesn't get deep at all. There are 7 chapters spanning just 37 pages of a 114 page book! The final chapter (7) is on sales and is just 2 pages long, I think that's funny considering the book is entitled "Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business". Save your self and buy "How to print T-shirts for fun and profit" instead, it's not known as the screen printing bible for nothing.

There is a list of suppliers in this book but there is a better list in "How to print T-shirts for fun and profit"