04/14/2024
We would like to remind everyone, just what small business means.
It means work areas like kitchen tables, dining rooms or an extra bedroom, a single person making one item at a time. It means imperfections and flaws. It means hand made- not machine made. It means frustration, late dinners, early mornings and let's not forget that single person still has other responsibilities... like kids, school, dr appts or maybe a job outside of their home based small business. Sometime it takes a little while to create a project, or things like expoy have to fully cure. Small business usually means made to order not stock piled inventory. It means running to Hobby Lobby and Amazon because supplies ran out. So let's remember to give a little grace on the expectation of perfection, because you will not get machine quality out of hand made. It's just not possible.
We are currently HAND PAINTING a screen print job because the customer wasn't happy. That's fine, we totally understand and will do our best to make it right! We just want to remind everyone that small flaws are made by hands at kitchen tables, perfection is done by machines in factories.
We at H5 have made a decision to no longer offer screen print as an option for our apparel. It is too slow and messy for our small home based business. We plan to offer sublimination items in the near future, which is a process of printing onto vinyl. We prefer vinyl, it always looks good, doesn't fade and lasts forever!
(PS- I just learned that screen print is essentially liquid vinyl. There is only one brand of fire resistant ink and it requires a direct to garment printer- base model is $5299.00 🤷🏻♀️👍🏼)
