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ASPT Member Biography

Dawn Hohl
Inducted into the Academy in 2003

For 18 years Dawn has worked for the Screen Printing Technical Foundation, a SGIA affiliated organization dedicated to advancing the screen printing industry through process related research and educational programs.  She served as the Technical Training Manager and was responsible for the developing technical information for SPTF’s educational products and training programs. She continues to teach and oversee the SPTF workshop offerings, as well as being an industry consultant for Uncommon Enterprises LLC.

Among her many educational accomplishments, she developed an extensive online Troubleshooting Guide, a complete Screen Printing Process Model Chart, initiated SPTF’s e-Training program, and completed SPTF’s Work Instruction series. Additionally, she has serves on California University of Pennsylvania’s Graphic Communication Advisory Committee and Skills USA Technical Committee for Screen Printing. 

She also helped to develop, refine and conduct SPTF’s “Screen Making” and “Graphics Four-Color Process” seminars, as well as developed and conducted “Color Theory” and “Statistical Process Control for Screen Printing” seminars.  She has overseen the Textile workshops sessions at SGIA ’03 to present.

The author of over thirty research reports, and magazine articles Dawn has been published in Screen Printing, Sign Media Canada, Screen Graphics, The Press, SGIA Journal and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.  She currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Sign Media Canada.

On the research side, Dawn was instrumental in building and promoting SPTF’s research agenda, completing over two dozen major research projects for the Foundation.  Prominent among them are projects dealing with heat vs. tension, reclaiming, exposure light distribution testing, color control testing, ink estimating formulas and calculations, ink deposit testing on 27 mesh counts, stencil thickness effects on ink thickness, bolt to bolt mesh variation effects on ink deposit, capillary application variable study, changes in polyester mesh during tensioning, electronic thickness gauge techniques, sample preparation techniques for ink, and polyester mesh capability study.   In addition, Dawn was responsible for the development of the electronic off-contact gauge, ink estimating software program, and helped in the development of two screen printing probes for thickness gauges.

Dawn graduated with a B.S. in Graphic Communications and Technology, with a Screen Printing option, from the California University of Pennsylvania located in California, PA in 1989.