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Cameesa is in the process of evaluating shirt printers, so Andy and I got a chance to meet with the wonderful staff of Sharprint, a t-shirt printer on the West side of Chicago.

The staff of Sharprint are extremely professional, personable, and humorous (humor is always a plus in my books). Upon arrival we met Lana, the Omega Team account manager, and received a tour of their gigantic facility, which produced over 6 Million Prints last year. With Cameesa’s help, they can definitely boost the number.

After our tour, we had the pleasure of meeting Sharprint’s artist, Tara Zanzig, who showed us the wide array of Sharprint’s printing capabilities, ranging from embroidery and embossing to foil and mixed media. Tara’s expertise were evident as she talked about Sharprint’s printing methods. Thanks Tara, this will provide a large amount of flexibility for the artwork our Cameesa’s community will produce.

Next, we returned into the factory to get a real taste of the glory, a hands-on tutorial of shirt printing. Simon Perez, a wizard on the manual press who has been with Sharprint since 1993, gave us this lesson. Simon was very welcoming and even laughed with me as I messed up my first print.

I got a chance to print my first shirt….well….my second shirt…..I messed the first print by cutting off Harry Caray’s face half way down the shirt, Oops!

Before we knew it, our tour was coming to an end, on our way out, George Kilian, the owner of Sharpint, came over and introduced himself to us. As he inquired about Cameesa I thought to myself : “Kamil, you are looking at a guy that started a company in his garage with a vision, and today he provides over 100 jobs in West Chicago…..man that is admirable.” Back to reality, now we are in our garage trying to raise our little baby, Cameesa.

This tour made me realize two things : 1) I love meeting cool people, 2) I missed Andy (Welcome back to Chicago!)

I am actually wearing my Harry Caray t-shirt as I type this Post, it’s Sunday and I need to do the laundry.