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How Much Does it Cost? How Much Money Can I Make? Cost
Details Benefits of Owning Your Own
Business Marketing Ideas How is T-Shirt Printing Done? | 
Only 11' diameter |
| HOW
MUCH WILL IT COST? $10 per day - $212 per
month
For the cost of an average car payment, here is a machine that
actually makes you money when you run it!
A 5 year bank loan for $10,000 at 10% interest only costs $212.47
per month - much less than another employee. That's only $10 per
day to be able print at least 100 - 6 color shirts
an hour. Even if you only print 212 shirts per month and
only make a dollar a shirt, it's smart business to go automatic.
What are you waiting for? Your banker will understand the return
on investment.
HOW MUCH
MONEY CAN I MAKE? At
least $100,000 a year.
You can usually print at least 180 shirts per hour and
because the Trooper is an automatic press, you can print 180 -
6 color shirts an hour. An average price for a 1 color
print on a 100% cotton t-shirt ranges from $5.50 to $9.00 depending
on the number of shirts in the order and you charge much more
for a 6 color shirt. An order for 72 shirts would
take less than 25 minutes to print and you would charge
at least $8.00 per shirt for 6 colors or $576.00.
$144.00 72 shirts would cost about $2.00 each
when you buy in dozens.
$ 21.00 Screen making materials average about
3.50 per screen.
$ 3.60 Calculate ink cost at $.05 per
shirt
$ 1.00 Lights and electricity $169.60 Total cost of materials. It will also take you about an hour to make a screen, and only
a little longer to make more screens. You charge $576.00 minus the materials cost ($169.60)
and you pay yourself $402.40 for a job that takes less
than 2 hours to produce. One job like this per day and you're making $100,000+
a year. |
| HERE
ARE THE COST DETAILS FOR AN TYPICAL SHIRT ORDER: |
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| | Shirts Wholesale cost for shirts is about $24.00 per doz. for 100%
heavy weight white cotton t-shirts. Price varies depending on how
many you buy at a time. |
| | Screens
Pre-stretched screens cost about $25.
You can change the images and use the screen over and over again.
It is very reasonable to reuse a screen more than 20 times |
| | Screen Making
You will use about $1.50 worth of materials to make a screen.
Screen making goes faster if you prepare screens ahead of time so
they are ready-to-expose when a suprise job arrives. The most time
consuming part of making screens is waiting for them to dry. |
| | Ink
You will get thousands of prints from a gallon of ink, but we suggest
calculating costs at $.05 per shirt. |
| | Utilities
Electricity, Shop space, Lights, Heat should be calculated and added
for the space you use. |
| | Labor & Time It does take time to make screens and print a job.
If you clean, reclaim or coat several screens at a time, you are
more productive. Assuming you have ready to expose screens on the
shelf, you can expose and prepare a screen for printing in less
than an hour. |
Hand tag every shirt with a business card that guarantees quality.
That card will eventually get into the hands of buyers. |