6 Year Anniversary Celebration!

We are so excited that we get to celebrate our 6 Year Anniversary of doing business in West Sacramento! It has been over a year since we moved into our 4800 sq. ft. warehouse and showroom on Evergreen Ave. and we have really come a long way. In the last year we've added 2 embroidery machines, 1 additional manual screen printing press, new computer and office printing equipment and our latest and most impressive addition is our Javelin series Automatic Printing Press. We continue to add new equipment and software to better serve your needs and deliver superior quality products.

We will be celebrating this milestone with a community celebration on Friday June 6th from 4:30-7pm in our parking lot outside the showroom at 2523 Evergreen Ave, West Sacramento CA 95691. There will be music, food trucks, free snacks and drinks, Jamba Juice on site with drink specials, a fund raising raffle to benefit the American Cancer Society, vendors, a classic car show and free SWAG! Please come celebrate with us.

We will also be presenting our first annual Community Leader Award to Todd Lindeman. Todd is the principle of Thomas Edison Language Institute in the Arden area of Sacramento. He has worked tirelessly for years to lead his school to some of the highest attendance and test scores in the entire district! Todd has increased school spirit and participation in school clubs and teams during his tenure as well. We are very honored to have him and his school as a client and proud to be able to present this award to him.

For more information please view the flier in this blog or email our owner, Mike, at mike@revolutionscreening.com.

Graphic Design for Screen Printing

We are in the business of printing quality products with your custom logo, design, or name and number for sports uniforms. Whether it be T shirts, sweatshirts, work polos that you're looking to customize, you need to begin with your artwork.

There are many programs with which to create your logo or design. The most popular program we see being utilized is Adobe Photoshop. This program is easy to use and offers many features that can give you a great custom look. However, Photoshop is a program that produces Rastor images. These are pixel based designs that do not offer clean edges and can be difficult to work with for screen printing. Without getting into too much detail you should know that while these files can look amazing, they likely will need work done to transfer into an image that can be screen printed.

The ideal file type is called a Vector image. These are point based designs that used anchor points to connect straight lines. It takes more effort and a broader learning curve to become well versed at vector illustration but the results can be even more impressive than a Rastor image in the hands of an expert. Vector images can be directly converted into a screen printed shirt for you to wear or hand out to your employees or clients. Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw are the front runners in Vector programs but they can be quite expensive. There are free alternatives out there that offer basic tools that could possibly suit your needs as well (Inkscape for example).

There is some great information regarding the uses of Rastor and Vector images from CreativeBloq.com. This link will lead you to a great article on this topic and offers more great information on graphic design.

Please feel free to email or call us with artwork questions. We always offer 30 minutes of free design help with a qualifying order.  Information is available on our webpage as well.

Mark Forsyth
(916) 604-6865
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Promotional Products Industry - Where We Fit In

Promotional Products and custom printed apparel is a huge multi-billion dollar business worldwide. Whatever you like to call it - SWAG, freebies, giveaways - logo'd goods are a great way to advertise a business or create excitement for an event or organization. Our business is to provide the companies, organizations, schools, etc. with a quality product at quality pricing. It is difficult sometimes, however, to remain competitive on pricing within such a saturated market that is more and more being dominated by multi-national corporate powerhouses.

Revolution Screening built its business model with the local community in mind. We want to take back the local business from the "Wal-Marts" of the Promotional Product industry (VistaPrint, 4imprint to name a couple).  These companies sell based on the concept of basement level pricing. They offer some products at steep discounts, sometimes even running at break even pricing, advertise these products to get you in the door. Believe it or not we can often match pricing on these websites for items they do not discount heavily for marketing purposes. Aside from prices, however, we strive to offer personal service that an online conglomerate cannot match. We are involved in our community and are proud of working with so many quality local companies. We try to help spread word for our clients within our network about events or milestones that they achieve. We really want to be an active partner, not just an order taker.

Revolution Screening is always looking to improve our service and expand our product offerings while offering competitive prices and a unique shopping experience. We are your one-stop shop to outfit your organization with custom printed goods. We can print T shirts, banners, coffee cups, pens, and many more items and have them all ready for pickup in one spot. We will help you find items that would work for your business or special event. Let us show you why we are changing the way people think of and purchase their custom printed items.