We present a selection of books for your enlightenment.
Bill Hood Books publishes a diversity of books and articles on a wide variety of subject matter. Fiction, Business, Self Help, Screenprinting, Art, and more.
Get yourself a cup of coffee, your favorite chair and peruse our selections. There's something for everyone.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 While written for those in the screenprinting industry, this book has information for any business that wants to increase their revenue. With over 50 ideas and 122 examples, this is the ultimate marketing book for screenprinters. 174 pages packed with ideas!
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Cloth woven from a blend of polyester and cotton can look and feel so much like 100% cotton that many screenprinters are tempted to print these blended materials with the same ink, and using the same printing technique and dryer settings that they use to print all-cotton cloth. Like all things – printing on polyester is not that easy.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Perhaps the greatest headache is that of achieving cure in plastisol ink. Most novice screenprinters are under the mistaken assumption that all that is needed is for the ink to reach a certain temperature for two minutes to ensure a proper cure. If it were only that simple.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Screenprinting Solutions provides solutions to problems faced by screenprinters everyday.
Screenprinting Solutions: Solutions to Problems is a self-help book for screenprinters with practical advice on what to do to make your life easier. Each short, easy-to-read chapter (see subject list to the left) has common sense information to help you change the ways you do things to increase productivity and profitabilty. You will wonder how you got along without this valuable resource manual.
Discover the Simple Solutions for: How to Print Light on Dark with One Stroke, Correctly coat a screen for maximum productivity, How to choose the best emulsion, How to save thousands of dollars on labor costs, Make more money!
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 A compilation of articles on the screenprinting process that will open doors for screenprinters to increase quality, production and revenue.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 This book came about from having visited thousands of shops over a period of a few years and realizing that many shops had problems with pinholes. Everyone I visited wanted to get rid of the pinhole problem in the stencils they made.
The information in this book will help anyone produce screens that are void of pinholes as much as possible. The information presented here, if followed, will go a long way in eliminating pinholes from your life.
With the problem of pinholes so prevalent in our industry, you can go a long way towards producing more work of a higher quality at less cost and with higher profits than that being produced by others. This information provides a new level of sophistication to the screenmaking department and if used will make you more successful.
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Download: $19.95 Use this editable Microsoft Word document to create your own Employee Handbook. We recommend that you have an attorney specializing in labor law in your state review the text before using.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $19.95 La selección correcta de la malla para la impresión por serigrafía para una aplicación específica es una parte muy importante del éxito que podríamos disfrutar al imprimir sin problemas excesivos.
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Download: $9.95 All the things that people do to impede their own success in screenprinting. You will no doubt find yourself mirrored in the description. Yes, things can be better and you don't have to suffer needlessly. Read this book and begin to understand how you can improve your own chance for success.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Complete instructions on how to build your own Exposure Unit from items purchased at your local hardware store and an inexpensive mail order Metal Hadlide lamp. Unit can accept any screen - wood, metal or retensionables. Working diagram and detailed parts list included.
Not a fluroscent lamp unit that can't expose details and halftones, but a real exposure unit with a Metal Halide lamp. Expose screens up to 23-inch x 31-inch or larger with adaption.
Also included are instructions on getting the right exposure every time.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 For every screenprinter who has ever had a client bring in "art" that has been previously printed and is screened - this is the book that takes the pain out of descreening the original and producing the very best image that can be produced. No Moire, No Halftoning, No Pattern
Period. Each short, easy-to-read chapter has illustrated step-by-step directions that can easily be followed to achieve success. All the information you need to scan pre-screened art or photograph those oversized pieces with a digital camera and remove the screened pattern. Works on 4-color process, black and white, tints, and all random patterned art.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Pricing for screenprinting is different than that for manufacturing or retails. This book explains the accurate manner to pricing for screenprinting. An indepth look at different pricing concepts with real life examples.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Better Screenmaking - Understanding the Variables has been a best seller at Bill Hood Books for several years. It is considered the Screenmaker's Bible. Discover what every successful screen maker knows, why most screenprinters have trouble producing a great screen and what to do about it.
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Behind Closed DoorsBehind Closed Doors (multimedia download)
Download: $9.95 Given the current economy it is extremely important that you do everything in your power to increase both your revenue and client base. This article explains how you can improve both without spending a penny. And, it works every day, year round!
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Double Your ProfitsDouble Your Profits (multimedia download)
Download: $9.95 Pssst! Wanna double your money? Sounds just too good to be true, doesn't it? But, unlike the old adage that if it sounds too good to be true then it probably isn't so doesn't hold water here. Because the simple truth is that you can easily double your profits today.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 This extensive guidebook on the Magical Village of Real de Catorce Mexico is the first book published on the village in past 15 years. This is the most current book available. It has complete and accurate information on the village.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $29.95 Written for the screenprinter desiring to do color separations in-house for the first time, even those with years of experience wil gain from reading the step-by-step directions illustrated with color screenshots and directions for screenmaking and printing for achieving success.
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Print: $14.95 Download: $14.95 Charlie’s Secret is an eclectic array of provocative essays, including autobiographical pieces that are at times bittersweet and at other times hilarious profiles from Bill Hood’s life of creativity, community caring, and pro-active planning to achieve success by the fulfillment of positive dreams.
The stories of the courage within the common man, the lessons of the heroic, and the connectivity of humans within their multiple roles of child, mate, parent, employee, boss, and members of the world community enfold the reader in their own quest for happiness.
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