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Direct To Garment Printing What Should You Charge The most popular question I receive from customers is How do you determine what to charge for DTG printing Direct to garment printing is the cutting edge of garment decoration and can easily justify a successful business with a single printer. DTG is fun, exciting, creative and just coolbut to run a successful business its all about the money. There are any numbers of printers on the market. As a production specialist and small business owner, my top priority is having reliable and profitable equipment. At the top of the list, and clearly the industrys best and most reliable printer is the Epson Sure Color F2. Because this printer is by far the most dominant printer in the industry, I will be using the F2. Garment Creator Free Epson Rip, and the cost estimator tool as a reference. Pricing DTG jobs is simple because there is very little, if any, set up and breakdown time. Printing a single color, or the full CMYK spectrum can be as easy as pushing a button. Unlike screen printing, with DTG we dont charge by the number of colors. Thats a selling point people often overlook. The cost of printing a full color image is reduced to the same amount it costs to print a one color design. Reduced production costs combined with the ability to offer full color prints equals increased profit margins With DTG, we charge by size of print, which is directly related to ink consumption. Melco Design Shop Pro V9Since we are using a digital printer, ink cartridges need to be replaced periodically, and thats the bulk of our cost. Lioness Hidden Treasures Zip. The larger the print, the more ink is consumed and more ink means more cost. Measure Ink Consumption To measure ink consumption, its best to have a cost estimator built into your print imaging software or driver. In the old days, we used to weigh shirts and manually track consumption, which made it extremely difficult to accurately charge. The software that comes with the Epson F2. You can download Garment Creator and the Cost Estimator here for free even if you dont have the printer. Watch this video to get an understanding of how to use the cost estimator tool. PICHere is a screen shot of the Cost Estimator Tool in Garment Creator. In the green box, we see that a 6. Labview Serial Port Tutorial. This tool measures volume the larger the print the more millilitres of ink used. Notice the section in yellow, Other Costs. I suggest creating a reference guide for measuring ink consumption. To do this, I like to create a series of solid shapes of varying sizes. PICFrom here, I can take each grid into Garment Creator, select my print preferences, and run the Cost Estimator. Print preferences are essentially your choice for color ink only, white ink only, or color white, and how much you want to lay down. Here is a cost breakdown of a 6x. PICNot all of your customers art will fit into these sizes and you shouldnt have to make a guide for each jobs specific dimensions. Use strategic size templates as a reference for your pricing. The better you understand your operations cost the more informed decisions you can make to understand maintenance cost that includes maintenance and other consumables. Other Costs Ink is the bulk of the cost when printing DTG but just as important is calculating for your maintenance and other consumables. Maintenance on a printer like the Epson F2. The print head cleaning kit is fixed, 1. The white ink tube flush is variable and completely dependent on time. If you were to print about 1. Other consumables are mainly pretreating solution but you can also include electricity, rent, labor, t shirt cost or anything you want to calculate to achieve a more accurate understanding of overhead. I like to leave t shirt costs out until I have the cost of my machine and main consumables accounted for. T shirts are variable and I often mark up around 3. I should note that your DTG printer will print exactly what you see on screen. So, in this case, using these solid color shapes on a dark shirt, our printer will print a solid 6x. This type of design will estimate the full cost of a 6x. Your customers art will not likely cover every square inch of a 6x. I always argue its better to over estimate than under. Mark Up Accordingly Now that we have a solid understanding of our cost, you must mark up accordingly. The 6x. 8 guide with other costs factored equals 2. From here, I would factor shirt, markup and any other costs. Lets say a shirt is 3. How would you mark this upI suggest following my no less than 1. Basically, I will never take less than 1. In this case were looking at 1. For one shirt, 1. Pricing Guideline Theory DTG is significantly less labor intensive than screen printing and we have the ability to produce one off garments quickly plus the margins can be very high. That being said, we want to charge a fair price but our time and efforts should be considered when setting a price chart. I argue its best to charge a fair value for your time, expenses and discount, if needed, after the full price is quoted. By this I mean dont give away your services when quoting a job SELL your services. Remember, we have a massively distinct advantage over other printed shirt techniques we can print one full color, full size image on a light or dark shirt within minutes. Some people think this should be cheap, but consider the alternative. If a customer wants a picture of Little Jimmy printed on a shirt for his birthday, what are their options Screen printing, of course, but that will cost art separations, films, screens, set up, and print cost. For one shirt my old shop would charge 3. The customer could do a transfer, but those are thick, plastic, vinyl stickers, not ideal, and not necessarily cheap. DTG really is the best option and I think its fare to charge accordingly. Its better to factor all your charges up front and discount later. Using the Little Jimmy shirt as an example, if the customer needs me to do art I might have a 2. I might also include a one time set up fee of 1. I would then reference my chart depending on the print size and ink consumption to print Little Jimmy. Lets say the print is 6x. I might charge 2. A one off shirt for Jimmy might look like this Art 2. Set Up 1. 01 black youth large 6x. Total 4. 6. 2. 3This may appear high but I think its fair. You should sell your customer on why this is a good price, but if you want to mark down to get the business you can. Your customer will appreciate the favor AND you know how far you can comfortably move. Try a 1. 0 or 2. Moral do your best to understand costs and dont sell yourself or your services short. DTG is fun so enjoy it but ensure youre making money.