OUR STORY
Mount Graphic Design was started in 1995 as a home based business (a.k.a. hobby) in my garage with very little business experience and tons of ambition.I didn't even have a printing press at the beginning. I would manually line up each color screen by hand for each shirt printed.No conveyer dryer either, a food warming light taped to a stick was how I cured the ink on the shirts. (no kidding) I initially did not have a computer to do my artwork. Everything was hand drawn on paper and taken to the local offset printer to shoot film positives, used to make the screen.
The first few years were a struggle. A few times, I had given up my dream of having my own shop. Seeing my struggle, my father decided to buy me my first screen printing press. I could now complete jobs 25 times faster than without a press. Since getting that press, i have never lost sight of my dream.I finally got a used computer, and it was a dinosaur. My first graphics software was purchased at the local swap meet.
By 2003 i had all the equipment i wanted (Manual Press, conveyor dryer, computer and film printer). It was getting hard to work in the small garage and i thought it was time to make the leap into an industrial building. So i did. It was a big leap. Not only was i getting an industrial location but I had also purchased an automatic screen printing press. I was the first screen printer in my area to have an automatic press, and the only one to have one for a few years to come.Through the years Mount Graphic Design has grown in size, and in knowledge of the industry. Some of my first work was less than perfect. But now with over 30 years of experience in the screen printing industry, and lots of hard work, Mount Graphic Design is now exceeding the quality our customers demand. Visit the portfolio section to view some of my work. We now produce our artwork in-house, our film in-house and our screens in-house. We have also upgraded our food warming light to an actual conveyor dryer. We have a manual press for the smaller jobs, as well as an Automatic for the larger jobs.