Screen Depot

Reliable and fast, usually next day turn around! Been using this place for years and won’t use anyone else. Maria is great if you need a transparency made, but better to go and see her in person VS over the phone. Chang is professional and friendly, great with advice! 5 stars!

I have never been treated more poorly! The older gentleman I spoke to was rude and inconsiderate. I called on a Wednesday, told him about 2 (out of 4) of my screens that didn’t reclaim completely. (I have a pressure washer at home and the other 2 screens reclaimed completely!) And since Screen Depot put the emulation on all 4 screens I went in to seek help. i told him, over the phone, I’d be in on the following Friday, as that was the only available time I had… he said ‘I’ll see you Friday’. I come in, he’s less than helpful, trying to find every excuse telling me I did everything wrong. He said that he would finish reclaiming my screens for $ 4 each, I reluctantly obliged, Then he walked away and said, ‘come back tomorrow’ as he headed towards the back of the building.

Great Place, Great Service. Great Price

I needed a custom size screen that was fairly large and I needed it done in 3 days. after calling nearly every screen place in the area, I spoke with Chang and he gave me a great price and said he would try to get it to me quickly. he referred me to Maria «downstairs» to have the transparency made. the only difficultly was understanding her… huge language barrier and I was really worried something would get miscommunicated.
today I picked up my screen and it is perfect. everything I asked for and a day early.
highly recommend screen depot

Fast and reliable service, these guys give you a deal and their hassle free way of communication really makes you feel comfortable leaving your screens there for fixing, did I mention their prices are great, highly recommended.

This place was recommended to me by a guy who used to do silk screen and no longer does, so I thought it might be a good place. I have no idea. I tried to make an order via email, and the woman, Maria, kept saying she was not getting my email. I told her the email address I had for her, she said it was correct. I think it is a joke. Don’t bother with this place.

BTW all of these negative reviews are on the horrible graphic designer that works upstairs, from what i remember she isn’t even apart of screen depot. just learn to work on the image yourself or have someone show you, this place isn’t called graphic design depot.

I know Maria upstairs is technically supposed to be a separate business, but the fact alone that they would refer anyone to her is bad business. She is completely rude, unprofessional and totally incompetent. After an hour and a half of her bumbling around she then said to come back tomorrow and refused to talk saying she did not speak English. We managed to miss a deadline based on her inability to open a file and create the transparency. Ugh, so angry still. Avoid this place at all costs. Would give negative stars if I could.

What appeared to be the perfect solution to getting screens done, turned into a nightmare quickly. This is exactly how it went down:
Monday, 9:30AM — I called the number posted here on Unilocal.The man that answered my call was great at answering my questions, but that was the end of the good experience. He told me to call «Maria» to send her my artwork. After trying to call her exactly seven times, I gave up. (No answer and a full voice mail)
An hour later I get a call from Maria. I asked her in what format to send the files and to what email. I told her that the original artwork was in illustrator and she said that Illustrator CS3 would be good. I was going to ask her about attachments vs sending a download link, but had no time since she quickly hung up after telling me what format she needed the artwork in, so I opted for both and send the two zipped files and a download link just in case. I waited for a confirmation email, but nothing came.
I called about an hour later to ask if she had received the artwork, she answered very quickly with what I think was a «yes. Good bye!», but I was able to hold her for another minute to let her know that my partner was going to drop the screens off for them to burn the artwork. She said «ok! ok!» and hung up.
When my partner got there to drop the screens off they told him that Maria never gave them the artwork. The guy that was there told him to comeback tomorrow to talk to Maria because they were about to close. I had emailed my artwork some time around 11AM. We figured there must have been some sort of miscommunication or error, nothing to panic about, but the next day…
Tuesday, 10:30AM — My partner shows up to talk to Maria. She says she never got my email, showed my partner her inbox. He calls me right away and tells me to resend the artwork. I re-​send along with a DropBox link just in case. She still never gets the email. My partner asks her to use the link I sent to (to both Maria and him), but she refuses to use the link saying that she doesn’t know anything about that. After a frustrating hour trying to deal with Maria, my brother gives up and asks me to drive a copy of the artwork in a jumpdrive. I live in Long Beach, so a drive to DTLA is quite a hike, but we need to get this project done, so I make the drive.
Once I get there, I ask for Maria, they point me to an office on the second floor. Once I walk in, everything seemed to be back on track. I handed her the jump drive, she was able to open the Illustrator files, which I had already color-​separated into individual layers. That was the end of the good experience, after several minutes of her fidgeting with the files to figure out how to print them, I asked her if I could help. She asked me seat at her chair, which I did because I just wanted it done. I ended up prepping the files myself. Finally my films were done!
I grabbed the films, walked downstairs and one of the men that works there was telling me how Maria has NOTHING TO DO with their company. That she is a separate business. He then went to the back and and got his boss, who immediately told me that my screens would not be ready until Thursday afternoon. (?!)
I tried to explain to him that I had been dealing with them since Monday morning, and was hoping they would work with me to at least get the screens done by tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. He said that there was no way, and that he was too busy. He did, however, said that if I wanted to get my screens done faster, then I should buy the screens from him at $ 25 a piece! After several minutes of back and forth with him, he suggested that I’d go two blocks down to another shop instead. Needless to say, that was the most helpful thing I got out of dealing with this awful excuse for a business. I left there with my blank screens and went to the other place.
As it turns out, the other place was called Rheetech. I walked in and was out of there with a receipt in my hand, after dealing with a very knowledgeable and friendly person. They were also very affordable and even offered to have the screens done by noon Wednesday.
AVOID SCREEN DEPOT!

Beyond rude when I called to ask a few questions literally 2 minutes ago. Very disappointed.

to busy to be low priced. I felt like I was getting milk from a gas station. I was feeling in the way after about 4 minutes of support. double the price too. The lady upstairs was only able to do 7×9’s.nice but again — Too expensive.17 bux to adjust a Photoshop file.(took about 2 minutes to find the correct tool).SRY never again.

I use the Screen Depot to have all my screens made. I have found it to be-​by far-​more affordable than handling the burning and reclaiming myself. For me, turn-​around has always been next day and without problem. Having Maria upstairs to print transparencies is a HUGE advantage. More often than not, I just email my artwork to Maria, who in turn makes the transparencies and gives them to Chang downstairs to be made. All I do it pick up. A great time-​saver.
Another HUGE bonus: they are located right across the street from McLogan Supply Co.

Hands down one of the best experiences with any company ever. Needed to have some screens done in one day, literally walked in had the transparencies done upstairs and three screens back within an Hour. Chang is the man!!!

Chang answered all of my questions and gave me the best screen for what I needed. Also had it done in 3 hours and at a great price!

Hours are 8:30−5pm, M-​F

This company is great. Maria makes flawless transparencies and Chang has been very professional and patient with me, giving me sound advice about which screens and inks to use.

I make screens, don’t get me wrong, but if I need it done well for a serious order or a complex image, I go with these guys unhesitatingly. I’ve never found any of them rude, though MAYBE a bit aloof or something, but they’re always busy because they’re so good. Oh, and there’s this awesome lady upstairs who’s a wiz with photoshop and prints perfect transparencies, halftone or whatever you need.

Not friendly on the phone. Tried to get some information and was basically hung up on. I’ll look elsewhere for a custom screen.

I love this place. Over the last couple months I’ve had a few projects to do and these guys really came through!
This past Monday I went over with a need for a screen and they made it happen and QUICK! I live on the Westside and don’t drive so it’s a huge pain in the butt to get there. Chang saw the look on my face when he said I’d have to come back the next day and decided it could be done in a few hours instead!
So after a bit of shopping in the Fashion District I headed back to the Screen Depot to pick up my screen! Done, Beautiful and Affordable!
Thanks for helping out your local artists!

Great place to get screens burned for very reasonable rates.
Some related info: Kinkos can make transparencies up to a 11×17 inch size. If you request that Kinkos use a color machine (instead of a B&W machine) they charge you more ($ 4 instead of $ 1.50, I think) but you get a much darker transparency. This way you don’t have to tape 2 transparencies together as the other reviewer suggested.