Need help with general pricing for adding heat transfer names to shirts

I'm just assuming...for a single color (transfered) name on the left corner (pocket area) of the shirt...I normally charge between $6 - $10 each + a screen fee. Hope that gives you a general idea.

hmmm .. thanks.. i dont feel right charging him that..

How much custom lettering on each shirt?.....

CAD cut heat press vinyl might be an option.......I charge 6.50 for a CAD cut name on the back of a uniform.....

Well the pricing is up to you ...I run an Airbrush shop with custom screen printing and photo printing. I give better rates for a run of the same design ...but when I have to customize each piece therefore creating more time, labor, and skill, then the price goes up. Was just trying to give you something to work with ...If you feel the customer should get more of a deal, then you give him a good price just as long as you are still making a profit.

Are you doing the entire shirt or just adding names to an already done shirt? I am confused on what adding 150 branches means.

If these are already done shirts I would probably think about passing on it but cut vinyl may be a good way to go or pre-printed plastisol names on transfer paper from stahls or transfer express or someone like that and I don't think $6/ea is out of line but I wouldn't go below $3.

If you are doing the entire shirt then I would add $3 each for the namedrop.

Yeah im going to print the same design on 175 shirts

I do that run first (with some back up prints for mess ups)
Then when i finish printing those shirts (hes bill is already at a hefty 1650$) im going to add 175 individual names (a name for each member of the family thats going to get a shirt) to a specific left blank spot on the shirts.. i will tell him im going to charge him (3x175) 525$ extra dollars for that customness.. its going to take alot of transparencies and alot of ink and alot of printing transfers and alot of heat pressing to get that done.. i might be screwing myself over, but ill still be making some profit, and ive got some months to do it.. But it would be a great idea to order the plastisol transfers from some one, so all i have to do is cut them up and heat press them on the shirts

Also i dont know much about heat pressing a shirt that already has plastisol on it.. will that be a problem?

royster13 said:

How much custom lettering on each shirt?.....

CAD cut heat press vinyl might be an option.......I charge 6.50 for a CAD cut name on the back of a uniform.....

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Not much the format is

John
Descendent of John Doe

This will be quite the job.....

I have done name drops in an opening on a plastisol screen print.....

I had a small raised piece of rubber on my press and then a piece of plywood that had a similar shape cut out in it.....I applied cad cut vinyl where it went and then put the plywood over top to protect the already printed surface.....I do not think i would do 175 names like yours for 3.00 each.....

Excellent, just checked out transfer express, and i guess it would be under GANG sheets, which i feel would only cost me about 100 dollars, so i stand to make about 400 off of that alone

Not sure how gang sheets would work for this....Minimum is 10 sheets per design.....

royster13 said:

This will be quite the job.....

I have done name drops in an opening on a plastisol screen print.....

I had a small raised piece of rubber on my press and then a piece of plywood that had a similar shape cut out in it.....I applied cad cut vinyl where it went and then put the plywood over top to protect the already printed surface.....I do not think i would do 175 names like yours for 3.00 each.....

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hmmmm.. so really it would be smarter to do the transfers first, then do the printing second...or use your plywood idea, which is an excellent idea by the way..

I believe its "typesetting" for first and last names

Im thinking ill set up the vector files, and just get them to print them for me.. im gonna go do a mock up in corel real quick, and see whats up

If you do the transfer 1st, then you will not be able to cure your print....

Oh, no spit? Im relatively new to heat transfers, ill need to do some reading up on the technicalities

You are saying i shouldn't send the (plastisol) transfered shirt through the conveyer dryer after i print the rest of the shirt around it .. will cooking it twice ruin it?

Yes.........

Depending on the size of the names, you try photo transfers. Set the names up in Corel and print them on inkjet or laser transfer paper. Photo transfers have gotten better but I would do some research on the different papers. You would still have to protect the plastisol but it would save you
alot of money and messing around.

Not sure how you did this or if you passed but you can do 1" letters in vinyl from Stahl's. I priced out the zipweed which sends it to you and lets you do all the weeding and they're on carriers. I chose pocket size and 1" tall. They came out like .85 per name which is pretty good. Do you have a way to dress your press so that you are only pressing the one side? That's not from T.E. but the actual Stahl's ID. Not sure why they're different but my username at stahl's doesn't work on T.E.

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Sending plastisol through the dryer twice will not ruin it, it's done all the time. Am I misunderstanding your comments?


OP, If you have a heat press I would recommend you just have someone cut the names from t-shirt vinyl.

He is printing part of the design and heat pressing part of the design......If he heat presses and then prints, he will have to run the heat pressed shirts though the dryer.....Not sure that is a goo idea for heat pressed vinyl.....