ASPT Member Biography
 Scott
Fresener
Inducted into the Academy in 1995
Scott Fresener has been in the screen printing industry since 1970
when he and his wife, Pat, started printing out of their garage.
They grew their $500 "mom & pop" business to a large
factory with over 30 employees and automatic equipment. They sold
the business in 1978 and wrote what was to become the industry standard
How To Print T-Shirts For Fun and Profit! This book has sold
over 130,000 copies since then and has become the "bible"
of the industry. In 1979 they founded the U.S. Screen Printing Institute
and have taught over 11,000 students the business of screen printing
on garments. In 1985 they wrote The Encyclopedia of Garment Printing.
The 1,000 page manual is used by most printers as their day-to-day
operating guide and employee training book. The Encyclopedia is
presently being updated.
A 1989 Impressions Magazine reader’s poll voted the
Freseners "the most influential couple of the last ten years"
and the Institute and books were voted the "best technical
material and training in the industry" by the Impressions
Magazine Quest for the Best competition. In 1989 and
1992, Scott and the Institute received the coveted Magnus Award
from the Screen Printing Association International (now called the
Screenprinting and Graphic Imaging Association) for outstanding
contributions to the industry.
Scott has written over 250 articles for industry trade magazines
and has been a feature speaker and lecturer at industry trade shows
around the world since 1979. He is presently writing technical articles
on screen printing and computer graphics for Impressions Magazine
(USA), Images Magazine (UK), SGIA Journal (USA), Silkscreen
Magazine (Dutch), EuroStitch Magazine (Europe), Image
Magazine (Australia), Screen Print India (India),
Screenprinting Russia , ScreenMarknadan Magazine (Denmark)
and Marquage Textile (France). Scott has taught dozens of
hands-on workshops at the Screenprinting Technical Foundation
in Fairfax, VA. In 1995, Scott was made a member of the prestigious
SGIA Academy of Screen Printing Technology, of which he
is the Chairman for the years 2002 – 2004. He has also served
as the Chairman of the SGIA Textile Committee and is on the
Board of Directors of SGIA for the years 2004 – 2007.
Scott has been an industry expert judge for dozens of garment decorating
competitions including the Terrific T-Shirt Contest sponsored
by Screen Play Magazine , The Impressions Awards sponsored
by Impressions Magazine , and the prestigious Golden Image
Awards sponsored by the Screen Printing and Graphic Imaging
Association. In 1993 he was invited to be the "Textile Judge"
for the first annual Asia-Pacific Screen Printing competition and
trade show in Singapore.
Scott has also produced dozens of video and DVD training courses
on screen printing and computer graphics including T-Shirt Graphics
with Adobe Photoshop, T-Shirt Graphics with Corel Draw and Advanced
Dark Shirt Printing Made Easy and Index Separations for T-Shirt
Printers . As a member of both the Adobe Developers Network
and the exclusive Photoshop 6.0 beta test team, Scott developed
industry specific color separation software called FastFilms
. FastFilms is being used by over 3,000 screen printers in
75 countries including people who print for Disney, Harley, World
Wrestling, Warner Brothers and others.
He has also developed a software solution called FastRIP
that allows high quality film positives to be printed on an inexpensive
inkjet printer, and a shop management program called FastManager.
In 1996, Scott wrote a book titled The T-Shirt Book for a
large national publisher. The T-Shirt Book recounts the history
and evolution of the T-shirt and is filled with hundreds of photos
of a wide variety of shirts. This book is in many major bookstores
worldwide. In 2000, Scott was quoted extensively in a Wall Street
Journal cover page story about the T-Shirt industry and in early
2001 was featured in the documentary film The History of the
T-Shirt.
Scott and his son, Michael, built and maintain the industry's popular
ScreenPrinters.net internet web site which boasts over 2,500,000
visits since going on-line in 1995.
In 1996, Scott was awarded the Screenprinting and Graphics Imaging
Association's prestigious Parmele Award, which is the highest
honor you can receive in this industry. This award is presented
to only one recipient per year for outstanding lifetime contributions
to the industry. In 2002, Scott was featured by Impressions Magazine
as one of the Top 25 Leading Industry Innovators.
On a personal note, Scott and his wife Pat are the proud owners
of three Labrador Retrievers (they had eight at one time). For a
number of years they actively showed their dogs in both obedience
and breed. Scott is the past president of the Scottsdale Dog
Fanciers Association. In fact, there are generally Labs running
around the U.S. Screen office!
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