Silkscreen printing

SCREEN PRINTING

This is the oldest and most common processing which T-shirt can be printed.  Silkscreen positives must be prepared, silk screens must be manufactured and these silk screens then gets set up. This is a time consuming process and therefore more expensive on lower quantities, but the unit price is lower on high quantities. The minimum amount of shirts printed with the screen printing process is 50, if the print consists of 1 or 2 different colours in the design, 80 shirts if the design consists of 3 or more colours.

A big a advantage of screen printing is that the ink penetrates into the material and thereafter goes thru a heat process. This method printing last even longer than what the shirt itself will last.

How to work out prices on screen printing.

•             Setup fee R250 per colour

•   Divide the setup fee with the amount of T-shirts you want to print, then add the price on the chart  indicated below with you answer.

White T-Shirt                   145g        R 23.00          170g           R 26.00

Coloured                         145g         R 25.00          170g           R 30.00

White Golf Shirt                180g         R 37.50          180g

Coloured                          180g         R 40.70         180g

Quantity              1              2              4              5              6              5              6              7              8              9

19-20         R 21.00      R 23.00        R26.00         R 27.50     R 29.50     R 27.50    R 29.50     R 31.00   R32.50      R 34.00

20-29         R 18.20      R 20.20        R 23.00        R 24.70      R 26.20     R 24.70   R 26.20    R 27.70    R 29.30      R 30.80

30-39         R 17.40      R 18.80       R 22.00       R 23.00      R 24.60     R 23.00     R 24.60    R 25.80     R 27.40      R 28.80

40-59         R 13.80  R 15.30  R 18.40  R 19.90  R 21.50  R 19.90  R 21.50  R 22.90  R 24.50  R 26.20

60-99         R 11.60  R 13.20  R 16.20  R 17.70  R 19.30  R 17.70  R 19.30  R 20.80  R 22.30  R 23.90

100+          R 9.40    R 10.90  R 13.90  R 15.50  R 17.10  R 15.50  R 17.10  R 16.40  R 20.20  R 21.70

100+          R 9.40    R 10.90  R 13.90  R 15.50  R 17.10  R 15.50  R 17.10  R 16.40  R 20.20  R 21.70

200+          R 8.30    R 9.20    R 12.50  R 13.90  R 15.40  R 13.90  R 15.40  R 16.80  R 18.30  R 19.70

300+          R 7.20    R 8.50    R 11.10  R 12.50  R 13.80  R 12.50  R 13.80  R 15.00  R 16.40  R 17.70

400+          R 6.10    R 7.30    R 9.70    R 10.90  R 12.10  R 10.90  R 12.10  R 13.30  R 14.50  R 15.70

500+          R 5.00    R 6.10    R 8.30    R 9.40    R 10.50  R 9.40    R 10.50  R 11.60  R 12.70  R 13.80

750+          R 3.90    R 4.80    R 6.50    R 7.40    R 8.30    R 7.40    R 8.30    R 9.20    R 10.00  R 10.80

1000+        R 2.90    R 3.60    R 5.20    R 5.90    R 6.70    R 5.90    R 6.70    R 7.50    R 8.30    R 9.00

•             T-Shirts can be supplied by the customer or we can supply them

•             Dark coloured shirts are more expensive to print on than lighter and white shirts.

•             The minimum quantities to be ordered 50

When requesting a quotation on screen printing we will require the following information from you to quote accurately.

•             Whether the artwork will be provided in spot or fading colour.

•             The amount of items that will be printed.

•             The size of the design or designs

•             Whether the artwork will be supplied in a print ready format (editable vector) to us.

•             The amount of colours that the design or designs consists of that will be printed.

If the design/layout are not provided to us in a vector (editable) format, our graphic design team can redesign the artwork at R250 to R500 per design. The finished design will then be handed back to you and can be used in the future for all you screen, litho or digital printing needs, even at different printing companies.

Quality of our T-shirts

Most people make the mistake by compare the quality of T-shits by the weight of the material. The thickness of T-shits usually gets measured according to the grams per square meter of the material, which is between 120 grams and 200 grams.

This is only an estimate, but a 145 gram T-shirt is not necessarily a better quality shirt than a 170 gram T-shirt.  T-shirts that gets categorized as a 145 gram per square meter preshrunk  and produced from 100% cotton material with interlock weaving appears neater and will keep its shape better as for example a 180 gram “ carded cotton” T-shirts

Carded cotton usually is made of lower grade material and mass produced. The colour process of these lower quality shirts also differs and lower quaintly shirts tends to fade. However these lower quality shirts still remain very popular because of price sensitive clients and a large competitive market.