about B and E Screen Printing

Mission Statement: Get Into It!
BandE is committed to outfit the Colorado Front Range with the best screen printed apparel on the planet.
The BandE mission strategy simply stated is to deliver a superior product, on time, while exceeding the clients’ expectations in the art department. We do it by employing the best people in the field and equipping them with the best possible tool box. We measure our performance on customer satisfaction and take an active interest in each client’s needs and expectations.
We offer our clients a complete graphic art design platform. We listen to the client in an effort to understand exactly what is intended or expected in the design. Then we work with the client to develop and personalize the graphic in such a way that it remains their creation while maintaining the integrity of the intended message of the art.
Once we have an approved graphic design we convert the design to a screen ready format, employing strict quality control procedures developed by BandE such that the final printed product is exactly the same as the original image in color, clarity and size.
We place paramount value on the strength of our customer relationships. Our goal is to produce the best printed products in the industry. In order to do so we must provide premium customer service from the beginning to the end of the project. This can only be achieved with superior artwork, the highest quality goods and excellent presswork.
Our graphic design and delivery system makes it easy for you to Put it On
The BandE client is always welcome to visit our shop, look at examples of past work or just browse through our catalogs and retail area. We encourage tours through our production area. We delight in developing that comfort zone where by the client can feel confident sending other business our way.

BandE Wear! Get into it!

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!