How digital printing makes a major splash: Local entrepreneurs offer world-class digital printing, embroidery service with a focus on helping other small businesses succeed
Everyone has one. You know, that t-shirt idea you’ve had for years but weren’t sure how to make a reality. Maybe you have ideas all the time, for t-shirts, hats, koozies. What do you do with your ideas? Where do you go? Should your shirts be screen printed or digital? There are a lot of questions.
Businesses and churches, family reunions and corporate events, even those pet projects you want to advertise and commemorate—there are hundreds of reasons for making t-shirts and other specialty promotional items. The trouble is finding a print shop that can meet all of your needs at a reasonable cost. And you’ll also want a shop with the latest technology, in-house design expertise, and the flexibility to work with embroidery and a wide-range of products. For the entrepreneurial-spirited, having drop-shipping options is essential for web sales.
But where do you find a shop that meets all of these criteria, a shop with experience, a local shop with real people you can shake hands with?
After years of working with print companies away from Columbus, Ed Norris came home to start a business. He and business partner Daniel Coulter started in their kitchen, but soon outgrew this space. They also outgrew their first commercial spaces. Today, with a new storefront and brother Hugh Norris on the team, Thread Mob offers the Columbus area expert design, leading digital printing and embroidery technology, and full web service, all delivered with the certainty of a hometown handshake.
Thread Mob “gives people a chance to bring their dreams to life,” Daniel said, and “no one has left here without getting what they want on a t-shirt.”
Digital printing allows enormous flexibility—any design you can imagine, include photos, can be transferred onto a t-shirt. This tech-forward process of printing is ideal for small runs of shirts because there’s no need for the expensive, time-consuming set-up of traditional screen printing. Digital printing lets you print exactly what you want with incredible quality, whether you need one or dozens of shirts. And Thread Mob handles a lot more than just t-shirts. Their state-of-the-art embroidery equipment produces all manner of custom items.
With extensive design and marketing experience, the guys at Thread Mob can bring your ideas to life and set your small business on the right path for providing merch. Family reunions, graduations, single orders, you name it, Thread Mob has all of the resources and expertise to bring you the best promotional items around. To make the process even more convenient, the Thread Mob website boasts an interactive portal for creating custom designs and products. Drop-shippers take notice: you can avoid the inconsistent customer service and quality of distant online shops by going to fellow local entrepreneurs who are here to help your ideas build real income.
Locals working with locals builds community and success for everyone. With Thread Mob, you get all the benefits of that local connection with the technology, expertise and quality to match any custom print shop in the country. And these guys work with people all over the country: full disclosure, they make shirts for my brother’s landscaping company, based in Fernandina Beach, Florida—news to me when I visited Thread Mob (3855 Miller Rd) for the first time. So I called my brother. He gives them a five-star recommendation.
by Tom Ingram