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Pre-registration template

Get your films aligned during screen making so registration on press stops being a fight. Free.

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Outsourced printing

Send me the jobs you cannot take yet. Your customer never knows I printed them.

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Screen Printing Toolbox

Every press, printer, film and piece of software I actually use.

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Operator Stack

For when the software is the bottleneck: websites, Airtable systems and custom apps, built only for print shops.

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The ladder

Start free. Pay only when it earns it.

Everything below is real and current. The free things are genuinely free — the paid ones only make sense once you know you like this.

First — learn the business

Free YouTube Technique, DTF, artwork, pricing and the business side — 120+ videos and the largest body of what I know. Visit → Free Screen Printing Toolbox Every tool, press, printer and piece of software I actually use, in one vetted list. Visit → Free The Print Crew A Discord for people already running a shop who want to talk real decisions with peers. Visit → $10 Print for Profit Challenge Three sessions on profitability, positioning and pricing with Jonathan Overmyer of Golden Press Studio. Visit → $29 Screen Printer's Guide to Business Six-plus hours on the part nobody teaches: audience, pricing, production, systems and marketing. Visit → $20/mo · waitlist Screen Print Collective Technique-first membership with Jennifer Sanderson. Monthly live trainings and real troubleshooting. Visit →

Then — run the shop on it

I build the software too, through Operator Stack

Everything above teaches you how the business works. This is what you run it on once it is real — built for print shops only, because that is the one industry I know well enough to build for. All three products are free to start.

Free, then $4.99/mo Pricely The pricing calculator I wish I had started with. Sixteen pricing engines across screen print, embroidery, DTF and laser, profiles per customer, and every job tracked won or lost with the reason why. Visit → Free, then $19/mo GroupKit A coach orders thirty jerseys, all different sizes, names and numbers. Send one link instead of running a spreadsheet and an email chain, and get back a production-ready summary. Visit → Free, then $9/mo Packed Pack orders, buy discounted shipping labels, print packing slips and tell the customer it shipped — without typing the email yourself. Visit → From $500 A website that quotes for you Most shop websites are a brochure with a contact form. This is the one I built for my own shop: real pricing, artwork upload, and a quote the customer gets now instead of in three days. Visit →

Need something none of those cover — an Airtable system for quotes, jobs and capacity, or a custom app? That is Operator Stack as well. I am a certified Airtable builder, and four of the apps I have built are in production in shops around the country.