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How do we keep new people from excessive frustration?

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Fresh Baked Printing:
They know more when you're first starting out. If not, how would you know?   :)

Sbrem:
It was my good fortune to be trained by a person who really knew his way around, back in the early 70's. I can only imagine how nuts it would be without the guidance, considering the amount of hair pulling I did even with some fundamental training. Needless to say, there was no Internet to get good (and bad) info from. Fortunately, we had a subscription to Screen Printing Magazine. I'd read them from cover to cover just to get a hint at the larger world out there. So we need to tell the newbies to come here of course, and to read the industry publications.

Steve

Fresh Baked Printing:
When I first started, I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Roger Jennings. I also watched one of his DVD's that came with some of his equipment. Talking to Roger and the DVD really helped to at least know what terminology to use and what questions to ask reps, other printers and forums.

JBLUE:
To me a sales rep is just a sales rep. Unless they have been in a shop its in one ear and out the other. I am pretty lucky that my rep from my supplier went from the bottom all the way to the production manager at a huge shop. I tend to listen to his advice when he points out something.

tpitman:
The one thing that set me on the right track from the get-go was buying "How to Print T-Shirts for Fun and Profit". Gives newbies a fairly good overview of the whole process. Haunting the forum at TSPMB filled in a lot of gaps early on.
I took a "serigraphy" class in college in 1973, but everything there was done with either x-acto cut vellum or tusche.
Once I decided I wanted to do shirts, I bought the aforementioned book. Can't say I haven't made mistakes along the way, but from what I've read about others, especially over at T-Shirt Forums, I've had good luck. Sometimes a vendor will find something to sell you whether you need it or not, or tell you when you don't need something you think you do. The thing is, it's a cumulative education. There's no one source that can teach you everything. A tip here, a discovery on press there, and over time you start to figure things out . . . sort of. There's also lots of bad advice, so you've got to cull the turds from the gems.
Read, read, read.

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