Tip Tops has been exceeding customer expectations for quality printing for over 20 years. Whether you need a simple one color design or original art in full color, we have the expertise and technology in-house to produce a high quality product. Spot color or process color. Dark or light color garments. Make a great impression on your audience. Trust Tip Tops to deliver quality promotional products on time and reasonably priced.

If you have been to a major theme park lately you have seen the excellent work of Tip Tops of America.

Screen printing, embroidery and promotional products is our expertise.

From our in house art department staffed with three artists to our in house digitizer we are a fully custom shop . Give us a call and speak to one of  customer representatives.

Screen Printing, formerly known as silk screen, is as stencil process with the printing and non-printing areas on one surface. Some of the earliest applications can be found in Japan. During the First World War in America screen printing took off as a limited industrial printing process; it was mainly used at first for flags and banners.

In the 1930's screen printing come to the attention of artists, and In the 1950's and 1960's the art form really started to gain commercial momentum. With the invention of the modern plastsol inks screen printing became the preferred clothing decorating method of the late 20th century.

The SCREEN - a wooden or aluminium frame with a fine nylon MESH stretched over it. The MESH is coated with a light sensitive emulsion or film, which blocks the holes in the mesh. Most printers at this point print film separation to registser and apply to the screen. At Tip Tops we do not use film on our screens. We go direct from the computer to the screen via a high tech direct to screen imager. After the image has been printed to the screen the screen goes into a very intense light box. (We use a 7000 watt metal halide light) The printed screen is exposed for varying intervals of time based on the screen mesh size and the complextity of the print.

The screen is then rinsed with water. The water washes away all the unexposed emulsion that was protected from the light by the printed stencil applied to the screen. This leaves you with a screen that has an open image that will allow the ink to be printed through exactly where you want it. The screen is now checked for leaks. And registered to other prepared screens in the screen printing machine. Tip Tops is an all automatic screen printing shop so our tolerances are very exacting. We take care to register the art to the screen all throughout the screen making process. The press will only give you as good a print as the screen will allow. Finally we are almost ready to print. The screen is ready. The ink has been mixed. Select the correct durometer of squeegee, install it in the press and we are ready for a test print. If all goes well after a little tweaking of screens and squeegee pressure we will have a screen print to be proud of.