i have mine calculated like this:$1.60 for white ss t..50 cents for emulsion,..3o cents for ink(.50 if its a large solid).20 cents for electricity,.10 cents for water,.80 cents for film. so thats 3.50 my cost the mark up is whatever you can get away with!as your supply and utility bills come in you will be able to create and breakdown your own method,but i hope this helps!
i have mine calculated like this:$1.60 for white ss t..50 cents for emulsion,..3o cents for ink(.50 if its a large solid).20 cents for electricity,.10 cents for water,.80 cents for film. so thats 3.50 my cost the mark up is whatever you can get away with!as your supply and utility bills come in you will be able to create and breakdown your own method,but i hope this helps!
Last year we ran over 400,000 shirts. Our cost for ink, emulsion, mesh, tape, film and what ever hard stuff went into a shirt was 13.4 cents per shirt. Labor was around 40 cents per shirt. And around 10 cents for everything else (payments on machines and such). These numbers are averages when everything was lumped together. We run orders as small as 5 to orders as large as 30,000. Total cost to print a shirt was 62 cents with everything included. I am now watching on a daily basis to get a more accurate cost on printing in a way that I can judge small orders as well as large orders. I don't know if this helps or not but the cost on the above numbers look pretty big to me. 50 cents worth of ink, is a lot of ink.
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Last year we ran over 400,000 shirts. Our cost for ink, emulsion, mesh, tape, film and what ever hard stuff went into a shirt was 13.4 cents per shirt. Labor was around 40 cents per shirt. And around 10 cents for everything else (payments on machines and such). These numbers are averages when everything was lumped together. We run orders as small as 5 to orders as large as 30,000. Total cost to print a shirt was 62 cents with everything included. I am now watching on a daily basis to get a more accurate cost on printing in a way that I can judge small orders as well as large orders. I don't know if this helps or not but the cost on the above numbers look pretty big to me. 50 cents worth of ink, is a lot of ink.
hey Mike, just curious about the numbers. We are getting about 60 screens out of a gallon of emulsion which is , lets call it, $60. That is a dollar per screen. What kind of emulsion are you using to be able to get the cost that low?
thanx!
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cost formula for pricing screen printing jobs? 
