[aplusbowling]

Let's say someone wants a single color print on the front and a single color print on the back of the same shirt. If you were to charge (just a number here) $3.00 for a single color single location print, would you charge another $3.00 for the other location print also? Or would you discount the second location? What's the average of discount for additional locations?

 

[splathead]

Usually the price is per print per location. So in your example, $6.

 

[mrvixx]

same amount of work so no discounts.

 

[aplusbowling]

Well, for starters, the title of this post should be "Price BREAK..." ...oops, guess I was hungry at the time

Anyway, thanks for giving your opinions. I remember reading another post where the poster quoted a cheaper per-color price for the second side of the garment. I'm with you two though, same amount of work should be the same cost.

Thanks again!

 

[zoiko]

Technically, It should work that way... but in real life I find it hard to price it that way. I am with you guys in that it is more work, you still have to re-run the whole order again plus have all the expenses of setting up again. ( time is money )

I try and make it look like I am giving a discount for the second location print but I add it to my first location price.

Now for screen set-up fee's, I also add them into the cost of the whole job so it will not be so drastic. Some customers who come to me and say that they already paid for screen set-up fee's somewhere else, complain that they went to get the screens from there screen printer and they could not get them back. I explain to them that screens are saved and re-used... but if they want to outright buy them they will be $60.00 ea. ( depending on size and mesh ) or I wow them with a nice Newman frame and say that it will cost them $200.00

I do explain to them that just because they have the screen it does not mean another shop will be able to use them as all presses are set up differently.

how do you guys deal with this ???

Hope this helps.

 

[vpshirts]

I agree that the time/cost is the same, but I feel like mathematically it just doesn't work out.

Once you start getting orders that are larger and larger, the price gets out of hand if you charge the same price.

Right now, we basically have a 25% discount on the base print of the second location. That seems to give us a price more in line with the perceived value of the shirts as well as what the competition is charging.