Company History
• October 30, 2001: Whiteside Enterprises acquires
B&E Screen Printing.
Our vision is to transform B&E into a full service shop.
Immediately following the asset purchase acquisition, Whiteside Enterprises
implemented a plan to assure customer confidence. First, we brought in an
experienced production manager to control the production department. Second,
we developed a quality control program which incorporated upgrading the existing
ink inventory with state of the art inks, adding a computerized pantone color
matching system and replacing the old screens with new high tension screens.
March, 2002: The art department is updated.
We converted from camera art development to digital film output and integrated
industry standard, screen printing specific, vector driven graphic art
software with a digital template art library, coupled with a postscript
level three
graphic art laser printer. This initiative allowed us to effectively interface
with our client’s graphic arts departments. This in turn generated
more complex orders.
July, 2002: B&E invites a highly respected graphic
artist to join the BandE team.
Business increased dramatically, primarily through referrals. As our customers
became aware of our new capabilities and services we were asked to develop
and print several event specific T-shirt designs for them.
September, 2002: The purchase of an advanced screen exposure
unit places B&E on a more level playing field with larger screen printing
companies in Denver
We found that our fifteen year old exposure unit was not capable of catching
the fine detail now being created in our art department. We met the challenge
through the purchase of the Advantage 150 Aerographical screen exposure unit.
November, 2002: B&E Screen Printing and Sports Apparel,
Inc. announces expansion.
We doubled our production area when we expanded into adjacent unit A. On November
14, 2002 we brought our new gas dryer on line. The MD-8 has the power and
performance to keep pace with the high production environment of the future
B&E. We developed and implemented a production flow plan which involved
repositioning all of our equipment along with a system to store and manage
large orders. We added pallet racking providing 2,000cf of storage space and
a structural steel mezzanine level accommodating 8,000cf, giving us a total
of 10,000cf additional elevated space, dedicated primarily to inventory storage.
We redesigned our screen washout and reclaiming system, adding an eight foot
long back light stainless steel printers sink and separate screen wash out
sink thus isolating production screens from those being reclaimed. Concurrently,
we designed larger tasks specific work areas strategically located to increase
operational safety, morale and productivity. Our expansion also includes a
new lunch room, a larger graphic art department, reception area and retail
displays.
B&E is proud to announce that we are now a Full Service screen
printing company
Screen
Printing Guidelines for Supplying Computer Generated Artwork
Our art department uses all
the latest state of the art, industry standard computer art
programs. As such we are capable of opening all professional graphic format
files!
This does not include Word or spreadsheet documents, or third party software
such
as Print Master, Kid Pixs, Corel Draw, Micro$oft Publisher etc. These files must
be
converted to a graphic format like . eps ( encapsulated post script) . tif
OT tiff ( tagged
Image file format) .pdf ( portable document file) .svg ( scalable Vector Graphic)
etc.
About Computer Generated art:
There are two types of computer art. Vector or Post Script and Bit- Map
or Raster.
Vector: this is the preferred format. Vector art is made in most drawing
programs, it
is made of lines and curves defined by mathematical objects called Vectors.
These files
are resolution-independant, that is they can be scaled to any size without
loss of detail.
Raster: this format is Photographic in nature. Created by
paint and photo programs,
Digital camera's and scanners. It uses a grid of small squares, known as Pixels.
Bit- maps are resolution dependent - that is they represent a fixed number
of pixels.
As a result they become jagged or lose detail if scaled to another size.Please
keep in
mind that most art on the web and in your computer is only 72 ppi ( pixels
per inch)
while they look good on a monitor at most resolutions they do not meet the
industry
standard of 300 ppi used for reproduction!
Art Charges:
B&E will apply an hourly
art charge of $35.00 per hour if we must create, reproduce or
separate art. Any art that has to be touched up, redrawn, relined or color
separated will require
an art charge. Simulated separations are priced at $15.00 per positive
and four color process
separations are priced at $20.00 per positive while spot color positives
are $5.00 per separation.
Helpful Hints: to save you art charges!
- • While we carry a large number of
fonts or typefaces we cannot possibly have every one
Please convert all text to curves.
- 90 percent of all screen printing is spot
color, All dark garments are spot only
• Spot colors should be given a Pantone Color Matching (PMS) number
• Include a hard copy of the artwork along with any special instructions.
• JPEG's ( joint Photographers Expert Group) compress and loose pixels
every time they
are saved! Jpeg's and Gif's ( Graphic Image Format) are for computer monitor
viewing only!
• Never rotate a Bit-map in the drawing program. This causes the file
size to become very large.
• Link not embed Bit-maps so they can be edited separately.
• Save Bit- maps color files as CMYK not RGB.
- • If you are working in a raster
program, and only use two colors, the file is still four color process.
- If you do your text in a raster program
with images, the text will be print with a 55 dpi dot and look bad.
Last Word:
It has been our experience
at B&E that our Graphics professionals can create and or recreate a
a clean professional graphic file in less time then it might take to fix a
problematic file. Please feel
free to contact one of our courteous art staff for any assistance you might
need.
Please name all files case specific. Generic names such as "T-shirt
front" and "Logo fin" create confusion due to
their commonality.
Keep in mind the more text you put on a shirt the smaller it will get. You
do not want
- to have people stop so you can read their shirt!