Sharprint

Specialties

Sharprint provides a remarkable experience screen printing and embroidering custom t-​shirts, apparel, and accessories for your organization or event.

Customizing apparel and accessories is what we do, but it’s how we do it that makes us different. Our ultimate goal is to create a remarkable experience for each and every person inside the Sharprint walls and out. You’re important and unique. Your work is important and unique. You and your orders are treated as important and unique.

Considerable resources are invested to provide you with information and educational material on all decoration techniques, apparel trends, and industry related pro-​environment processes and products. As your trusted source, it is our responsibility to equip you with as much or as little knowledge as you desire. If you have a question or are interested in a topic we haven’t covered yet, just let us know.

History

Established in 1985.

George Kilian, disgruntled t-​shirt customer took matters into his own hands after many misprinted orders and printed the T-​shirts himself. Sixteen years later, the former manager of a rhythm-​and-​blues band owns and operates Sharprint, a contract screen print and embroidery business that grosses more than $ 8 million annually. «Sharprint started in the basement of my band’s house, says Kilian, who initially built his own equipment and taught himself screen printing through trial-​and-​error. «We printed T-​shirts for our bandThen nightclubs wanted wanted some, and soon everyone was coming to us and we had done very little marketing or sales. By selling to his music contacts, he instantly hit a high note, creating more business than he could’ve anticipated. «It seemed like we were moving every three years (to a larger facility),» he says. Today, after relocating five times since 1985 to accommodate its steady growth, the Chicago-​based business resides in a 40K square-​foot warehouse,

Meet the Business Owner

George K.

Business Owner

It all began when a screen printer botched a simple T-​shirt order. Naturally, the client was upset. But in hindsight, it was the best thing that could of happened to him. The client, George Kilian, took matters into his own hands and printed the T-​shirts himself. Sixteen years later, the former manager of a rhythm-​and-​blues band owns and operates Sharprint, a contract screen print and embroidery business that grosses more than $ 8 million annually. Today, after relocating five times since 1985 to accommodate its steady growth, the Chicago-​based business resides in a 40K square-​foot warehouse, which houses two new state-​of-​the-​art 12-​color automatics, two fully automated 16-​color automatics, and one brand new all-​over 18 color giant, as they like to call it, which has enabled Sharprint to produce gigantic prints.

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