Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
I have been in the screen printing business for a few years now and although it took a while, I managed to set up an excel spreadsheet that allows us to calculate pricing on screen printing jobs based on all of the given variables. It covers all of our bases, gives us a good margin and appears to be pretty competitive in most cases. When we got our cutter and heat press, we ended up buying a thing called GraphicCalc to calculate pricing on sign vinyl. Seems to work well and helps us make sure we're not giving it away. But the one thing we're still scratching our heads about is our heat press vinyl and how to price it consistently and be reasonable price-wise. Does anyone have a spreadsheet they use to calculate this sort of thing that you would be willing to share? I'm just stuck right now and needed a little help getting back on track. I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything in my pricing calculations.
I just found this in another thread. Does anyone know anything about this calculator or if it's work the price? Looks like it's about $30 but they don't have any screenshots so I don't know if it's a stand alone app or if it's spreadsheet.
I have been in the screen printing business for a few years now and although it took a while, I managed to set up an excel spreadsheet that allows us to calculate pricing on screen printing jobs based on all of the given variables. It covers all of our bases, gives us a good margin and appears to be pretty competitive in most cases. When we got our cutter and heat press, we ended up buying a thing called GraphicCalc to calculate pricing on sign vinyl. Seems to work well and helps us make sure we're not giving it away. But the one thing we're still scratching our heads about is our heat press vinyl and how to price it consistently and be reasonable price-wise. Does anyone have a spreadsheet they use to calculate this sort of thing that you would be willing to share? I'm just stuck right now and needed a little help getting back on track. I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything in my pricing calculations.
I can tell you,I know the amount of work and time that was put into this program. Roger had several testers and we put him through the mill.he would think it was ready and we would find a wrinkle. I know this went on for over a month. ..... JB
Heat press / vinyl pricing calculator Question? 
Re: Heat press / vinyl pricing calculator Question? 
