Pricing help please.

[pw66]

pw66 the first one is just a picture cut out and placed ontop. Of what the customer wants. They just want the white bit in vinyl printed onto black tops.
Thanks for your advice.

That will be a pain with vinyl. I would look at some form of no weed solution, if you can't screen print.

[Fletcher]

Excuse me for being blunt but I have never understood why you would ask how to price something on a forum...

Things to consider are a business in London is going to charge considerably more than a business in North Wales. There are business rates and the general cost of living that play a major factor in why.

But ignoring that, this is how you price something...

Work out the material cost including postage etc. Add running costs of the machine and factor in rent if you have a business unit. Once you have factored in all those costs you can divide it by the number of garments you need to produce (add an additional 10% for wastage).

You then need to add how much you would like to earn per hour. This is why I never understand the question. A London based business would need to earn in the region of £20.00 per hour to survive. Where I am it is A LOT less.

Once you have worked out your hourly rate and how many you can print per hour you will come up with the magic figure.

Please note, that there are sometimes you will get it wrong and experience and time will correct that, but to ask how much on here will not help you unless you are either being lazy or are trying to get as much as possible from your customer without creating a sound business structure.

As an example of how pointless it will be:

LOGOBEAR might say £5.00
WEBTREKKER might say £15.00
I might say £100.00

We may all charge that in our day to day business simply because of where we are based, competition and footfall.

Social, it’s fine to be blunt.
Ive always stayed away from stuff like this due to me pricing it at silly money. (I’m 25 miles outside of London) I only do vinyl printing and embroidery. And these small designs to me are tricky to pick and with 2 colours to tricky to line up. So I always stay away from these jobs.
How ever where I am all 30+ local schools only use 2 shops to sell their school wear. These shops sub out the making of the uniforms, bags, pencil cases, pe kits and other school stuff. One of the local shops came to see me but before I tell her no I thought I’d see the general cost others charge. I would do it at £4 per print Single colour. These schools min order is 200 at a time. But I think it’s something I want to stay away from as to me it’s a lot of effort for next to no money.
Thanks for your advice tho.

[socialgiraffe]

Not sure on what kit you have but if I assume you do not have a Roland or an OKI white then I would look at getting the transfers made by a custom transfer company ready for pressing. Looking at the two designs I would expect to pay around the £1.00 mark per transfer based on 50-200 units.

These would be ready to press so there would be plenty in it for you to mark up and make a decent profit for a couple of hours pressing.

Having said that, I think screen printing would be cheaper on both items anyway as I think they would come in sub £1.00 finished.

Good luck