Product Development for Screen Printing with Ron Sievert Inventor of The EzGrip Squeegee
Cam: (02:35)
We have a very, very special guests. And the reason he’s special and the reason I asked him to come on is because, um, I am, I’m personally just, I guess I would say I’m a creative person. I’m interested in creating products and developing products. And you know, whether I want to take them to market or not, I’ve just always been intrigued by the process. And this gentleman has, he’s done a handful of products, but today we’re going to talk about one product in particular and how he went about building it and what he did and what to look out for, what’s the good, what’s the bad, all that kind of stuff. So without further ado, let’s introduce Mr Ron Seaver. He is the creator of the easy grip squeegee, the easy group squeegee. Ron, welcome to the show, my friend. Thank you for coming on.
Ron: (03:42)
Real pleasure to be here with you cam and your viewing audience.
Cam: (03:46)
Thanks dude. So, uh, what’s new with you? What are you been up to these days? Oh, you know, same old thing. Try not trying to market this new invention. Yeah, man. All right. Time consuming project. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, I, I guess I’m going to give a little bit of backstory before I start talking to you just about the easy squeegee. So I learned about the easy squeegee from a co, uh, a friend of mine who is also in the screen printing business is named Jack. He runs Jurassic prints and he can, he comes up to me one day and he goes, dude, have you seen this new thing that’s the advanced screen has over there and I’m on nowadays. He’s like, this is new squeeze. You brought us like super lightweight. It’s very affordable. It’s really fun. Cool. And of course me being the guy that just likes to test out any new product, especially if it’s affordable, I go running over to advanced screen, I grab up a couple of them, I bring them back and we start using them and it was awesome.
Cam: (04:39)
And then, uh, I put it in a video. Right? Just completely, it was on my own, my own accord. I had no intention of ever reaching out to you, but I did the video on it. And uh, shortly there after is how I actually got in touch with you. Right. Cause you just called to say thanks for doing the video. Um, when you’re, when you, or what did you do or what, what was happening when you decided, hey, I need to make this cause this, this thing just simply does not exist. What does the story behind that?
Ron: (05:13)
Actually, it’s pretty simple. I started working in the print screen industry as a printer and it wasn’t, but a few weeks after I started printing that I realized that, um, this most crap the squeegee could use an improvement and primarily from the a aeronomics standpoint as well as several other benefits and features that were missing with the would squeegee. You know, the squeegee, we really had somebody who knows 100 years ago, uh, picked up a piece of wood through a piece of rubber in the bottom. Said, hey, I got a squeegee, but never, they never started from scratch. And I don’t know if anyone has, other than myself, sat down and said, what does a squeegee need? What or what, what do we, what are we looking for in the squeegee? We need something that uh, is going to be good on your hands, good on your body, something that’s not going to fall in the ink, something that’s easy to change, blade something that FCC to clean. Um, and so I made a list, but what if I were going to with Venice, squeegee, what would I want that product to be and I don’t know, made my lip and I went to the uh, you know, research and development and started well at my research and development was really ace hardware and Anna would squeegee, I took a snugging, took ISACA Downer with Squeegee, put a couple of brackets on it, put some ru
