[jay85]

How do you price putting transfers on t-shirts for customer. They
provide the transfers and the shirt. I apply them their to shirts.

 

[Liberty]

Whatever your hourly shop rate is. One person, one press your output may be 60 per hour. If your shop rate is $60, for example, then a buck a hit. Up front acknowledgement regarding misprints is crucial. And I am assuming a plastisol type of transfer. If they are an inkjet or laser transfer with a long dwell time then you will see a major reduction in output, down as low as 15 to 20 an hour.

 

[danny]

How do you price putting transfers on t-shirts for customer. They
provide the transfers and the shirt. I apply them their to shirts.

you need to know what type of transfers they have also, hot peel, cold peel, dwell time,if cold peel you need to figure how long it needs to cool, hot peel will be quicker, a lot of info you need from your customer to make the right desicion

 

[royster13]

I would not do a job like this....Not enough reward for the risk you are taking......

But if I did it would 50% of the cost of the t-shirt & transfer plus 1.00.......So if t-shirt & transfer would have cost you 2.40 each my charge would be 1.20 + 1.00 = 2.20 each.....

 

[lkt1954]

+ 1 for royster13........I price these jobs at $ 5.00 per garment and tell them they have to sign a release. I then price them a turn-key job which 90% of the time is cheaper than them bringing everything in and paying me $ 5.00 to heat press them. To date we have had no takers, but numerous one return to puchase their next job turn-key from us..........My favorite line to these customers..."would you take your own food into a cafe and ask them to cook it for you."

Larry

 

[treadhead]

Whatever your hourly shop rate is. One person, one press your output may be 60 per hour. If your shop rate is $60, for example, then a buck a hit. Up front acknowledgement regarding misprints is crucial. And I am assuming a plastisol type of transfer. If they are an inkjet or laser transfer with a long dwell time then you will see a major reduction in output, down as low as 15 to 20 an hour.

I agree.....

Also..regarding the risk of fallout I would just charge for the # of completed shirts returned to the customer. So, if they provided me with 100 shirts and transfers and I messed up 3 of them, I would only charge them for 97 shirts. If I was charging $1 per hit (reasonable) then they would only pay $97 period. They eat the shirts and transfers just as though they messed them up themeselves. If they are trying to nickel and dime by providing their own shirts and materials then they can also take the risk of fallout. Most of the time they are doing this because they don't want to byy a press to do it or take the time themselves to do it. They come out ahead rather then me pricing each hit at say $2 to $2.50 per shirt to cover any fallout. If they don't like it, they go somewhere else. If the fallout is alot and I mess up...they don't come back...that is on me. If it is because their transfers are junk or shirts have issues that is on them.

 

[jay85]

Thank you so much for your wisdom and advice.
It was badly needed.
Thanks again.

 

[Human1]

i have a similar situation for my first job (possibly)

I'm open to do it this way because I'm just learning and I expect to use some of my own money.

The customer wants to supply the shirts. With their design using an unnamed vendor I think I can get 25 sheets for about $37 two designs per sheet.

What should I charge? straight up $37 dollars plus $1.50 per press?

I don't think they want all 50, so I'll have time to learn as I go.