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“Our products are good for any business,” Blue said. “We help people get their message out through visual products that are also useful. Bluetooth speakers, entrance rugs into businesses, tents and table covers, and big banners. We have so many advertisement pieces you’d have to see them all to choose.”
During his more than 30-year tenure, Blue has forged relationships with national and global contractors and vendors for specialty, off-campus items such as mugs and golf balls. “Being in the business as long as we have, when someone is looking for that something extra special, we know exactly who to reach out to and make it happen,” Blue said.
As general manager, Anna Ellerman’s job requires a lot of screen time, but it’s not the type of work that demands staring endlessly at a computer, laptop, or tablet all day. It’s a lot more detailed than sitting behind a desk. “We have the capacity
to push out thousands of shirts a day,” Ellerman said. She added Coastal Prints has the latest technology with two automatic screen print presses and one printing machine that’s manual.
Ellerman and her team take time with each new customer to carefully explain
the logo printing process. “I always ask if they have time to go walk around the production room,” she said. “If you’ve never seen a screen printing machine and it’s set up, it’s pretty cool and they get to see the process. How it’s all done down to each and every detail. It’s pretty neat to see your design vision coming true and not only in a digital proof.”
And no company is too big or too small for Coastal Prints. “We have customers in smaller offices like attorneys,” Blue said. “We also have big companies like F.E.B.
Distributing. We do business with Keesler Federal Credit Union. We do business with Mitchell Distributing and Coca-Cola in
Gulfport. So, if you’re a smaller business that just needs 24 screen-printed T-shirts for their staff, we can do that. And if you’re a big company with a
big idea, we can handle that as well.”
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