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Print cost

Printing cost calculator for screens and print runs

This printing cost calculator prices a screen-print job from colors, screens, and a per-piece print price, or a plain print run from quantity, unit cost, and setup. Use it as a screen printing pricing calculator, a print cost calculator, and a screen printing calculator. Every dollar is a price you type.

Job

Job cost

$297.00

Each piece$12.38
Screens$45.00
Printing$60.00
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Planning estimate from the numbers you enter. Coverage, density, waste and price are assumptions, not a supplier quote or an engineering specification.

How it works

Screens are a setup. Pieces are the run.

Three colors at $15 a screen is $45 of setup. Twenty-four pieces at $2.50 to print is $60. Garments at $8 each are $192. The job is $297, or $12.38 a piece. That is the screen mode already filled in. The print-run mode is setup plus quantity times your cost per piece, which is the print cost calculator path for a digital or offset run that is not priced by the screen. Ink waste, a reprint, and a flash are extra unless you put them in the per-piece price. A wide-format banner’s size is on the banner size calculator.

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Formula

Screen job = colors × screen cost + quantity × (print price + garment).

Print run = setup + quantity × cost per piece. Cost each = total ÷ quantity. The screen printing calculator does not add a shop minimum unless you put it in the setup.

02

Example

24 shirts, 3 colors, $15 a screen, $2.50 to print, $8 garments.

Setup is $45, printing is $60, garments are $192, and the job is $297. Switch to a print run of 500 at $0.35 with $75 setup and the printing cost calculator total is $250.

03

Tips

An underbase is a color if you burn a screen for it.

Count it in the color field. A dark shirt that needs a white underbase is four screens when the art is three colors. The screen printing pricing calculator will not guess that for you.

04

Equipment

The press is the machine.

Dengaro arranges equipment financing for a screen printing press or another printing press. The job cost is not sent as a loan amount.

Important questions

Know what to expect.

Is a print cost calculator the same as a screen printing calculator?+

On this page the screen mode is the screen printing calculator and the screen printing pricing calculator. The other mode is a print cost calculator for a run priced per piece plus setup.

Are the dollar amounts a quote?+

No. They are examples. Type your screen cost, your print price, and your garment cost. The printing cost calculator multiplies those.

Does this include art or separations?+

Only if you add that fee to the setup. The form does not have a separate art field.

Where do I size a banner?+

On the banner size calculator. This page prices pieces, not a vinyl rectangle.

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