Is it convenient to open a screen printing laboratory?

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I would like to try to open a small screen printing business, but I have two big doubts.

In the past I happened to buy silk-screened knits at an average cost of 4.50 euros per piece (3 colors, 100 pieces per order), a very affordable price.

Considering the running costs of an activity, do I have the possibility to live of this job?

Is the profit margin per order low and should I consider having to earn on the amount? How much does a neutral t-shirt cost to a screen printer on average … to be able to sell it worked at such a low cost?

Undoubtedly, the decision to open a screen printing workshop is important and must be carefully weighed, above all to understand what setting to give to your production.

Fears about the possibility of earning income are immediately dispelled by the fact that thousands of screenprints in Italy exist and derive income from them.

It is important, I said, to set up the business in the right way.
The decision to open a screen printing laboratory is important and must be weighed carefully, especially to understand what setting to give to your production.

The market prices of the shirts have a very wide variability: we find the meshes at 4.50 euros each, and evidently those who produce them have set their own activity on the quantities.

Or we can find high quality knits at suitable prices: even in this case it is a matter of choosing and understanding the needs of the market to which one turns.

Also keep in mind that print prices, for those who print on behalf of third parties,

The price of the neutral t-shirts to be personalized is very variable: there are cheap t-shirts for less than 2 euros each, or an excellent fabric polo shirt for more than 4 euros each; printing prices, and also in this case, vary accordingly: it costs more to print on a good fabric than on an economic fabric, on which any processing waste has less impact.
The purchase price of this clothing does not depend on having or not having a VAT number (it is also sold to private individuals), but on the quantities that are purchased: for large quantities an appropriate discount is applied.

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Five tips to create your own custom t-shirt brand

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I have no graphic experience but I am a designer who would like to be able to print his own shirts.

To do this it is advisable to clear evaluate the pros and cons of such a path: how do you advise proceeding to “train me” and understand if it is more convenient to “start my own business” or to rely on a printing house? limits of the printing dimensions, in the costs and in the elasticity of the service. But I don’t know the costs and the times of management of the press in own. The numbers, to start, would surely be contained … but alone I could perhaps manage to better manage myself quantity of production …?I ask for help.

To start printing your own t-shirts independently, you need an investment of less than 500 euros. To check, simply go and see our mini-color examples and our kits to get started, with particular reference to the T-Shirt Plus Kit,

If the number of prints that we intend to produce is limited, we can proceed with relative lightness, without making too many accounts: the investment is known and the benefits also: all the production phases would thus be under our control.

If the number of prints is rather high, the necessary investment grows exponentially, and it is necessary to do one’s accounts well: either it definitely becomes a profession or in any case it is advisable to proceed by degrees.

In order to better clarify the ideas, I advise you to read a good manual to understand what all the stages of screen printing are, starting from the preparation of the matrix to the printing. You can find this in the Practical Screen Printing Manual, at https://www.cplfabbrika.com/libri-e-ebook.html of our site To learn even more, you can attend a one or two-day course, which we organize in collaboration with Serigrafica

The theoretical and practical course is taught by an expert screen printer and on that occasion you will be able to touch the advantages and problems of the screen printing process, also comparing yourself with other people who have the same needs.

I also invite you to freely attend our forum, where the most classic problems encountered by those who start printing are debated.