$0.20 per thong screen charge+ $0.30 per Thong shop fee +1.50 per thong for profit + 1.00 per thong for customer supplied goods= $3.00 per thong but im not a contract printer so I make money on the blanks too. to clarify the pricing I based it on one hour and half hours production time, the screen fee was broke down by number of thongs 20/100, overhead is for my shop is about $20.00 per hour so on shop fee 30/100. $1.50 per thong x 100= 150/1.5= $ 100 dollars per hour. Like I said I do not do contract printing, I only do retail so I only sell my shirts or whatever so if I were to do a job like this I would add some amount of money for customer supplied goods.
Greg
Last edited by Reddawgs; July 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 AM.
Did you make profit on the job? What were all your associated costs, & how much time did you spend on the job? Take the $95 minus your hard costs & divide by the hours you spent - that'll give you what you got paid per hour. Was it worth it?
If I charged $95 for the job complete, I'd have covered my costs plus made $42/hour for my time & overhead. This is how I like to look at things, rather than so much per piece... but that may be just just me.
Cost of film, emulsion, ink, supplies: $25
Print film: 10 min
Burn, washout, & tape screen: 15 min
Setup press: 15 min
Print 100 pieces: 50 min.
Unpack/pack: 10 min
Total time:
1.67 hr.
$95 - $25 = $70
$70 / 1.67 hr = $41.92 / hr.
Did you make profit on the job? What were all your associated costs, & how much time did you spend on the job? Take the $95 minus your hard costs & divide by the hours you spent - that'll give you what you got paid per hour. Was it worth it?
If I charged $95 for the job complete, I'd have covered my costs plus made $42/hour for my time & overhead. This is how I like to look at things, rather than so much per piece... but that may be just just me.
Cost of film, emulsion, ink, supplies: $25
Print film: 10 min
Burn, washout, & tape screen: 15 min
Setup press: 15 min
Print 100 pieces: 50 min.
Unpack/pack: 10 min
Total time:
1.67 hr.
$95 - $25 = $70
$70 / 1.67 hr = $41.92 / hr.
Joe you tell the customer their shirts are going to cost $41.92 per hour? I think just about everyone who does shirts, signs or whatever maps out what the profit per hour is but when I quote a job to a customer I do not tell them its going to X amount of dollars per hour I break the price down by the shirt or sign or cap.
No, Greg, nobody said "tell the customer it's so much per hour"! I think you misunderstood me. My point didn't have anything to do with how I communicate with a customer, but rather how to determine what to charge per piece for such a job. I was giving Joe a TOOL to help him decide whether doing the job for $95 was worth it to him or not. He apparently thinks he blew it, but how can he know whether to feel good or bad about the money he made unless he knows what he actually did make? Putting things in perspective can help him decide whether he's right or not.
The breakdown is just for your own information to bring clarity to how much money you're making by charging $1 per unit. What good is it to say "I charge $0.20 per thong screen charge+ $0.30 per Thong shop fee +1.50 per thong for profit + 1.00 per thong for customer supplied goods= $3.00 per thong..." if you don't know whether or not you're making a profit and how much profit you're actually making? If it takes you 10 hours to do the job, it's probably way to little. If it takes you one hour, you're probably paying yourself more than nuclear technicians.
How much would you charge to screen print 100 thongs? 
