The InkTracker Blog
How to price your work, run the money side, and get jobs out the door — written by a working print shop, not a marketing team.
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Money
QuickBooks for screen printers: stop typing every job in twice
Your shop software and your books disagree because you're the sync — retyping every job into QuickBooks by hand. What a real two-way connection should do, the three places shop books quietly rot, and how we run ours.
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Production
DTF vs. screen printing, from a shop that only runs screens
I'm a screen printer — there's no DTF printer in my shop. But the question lands weekly, and the math is objective: setup cost vs. per-piece cost. Where the break-even lands, where each process wins, and why I still haven't bought the equipment.
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Software
How to choose screen printing software (I'm not going to trash my competitors)
An honest look at the leading screen printing software in 2026 — Printavo, YoPrint, InkSoft, DecoNetwork, and InkTracker — including where each one wins. No trash talk, from someone who sells one of them.
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Money
Sales tax for print shops: the short version
How sales tax actually works for a print shop — destination-based rates, when you need address-level accuracy, and how software handles it. A plain-English primer (not tax advice).
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Pricing
How to price embroidery: stitch count is the number that matters
Screen printing prices by color. Embroidery prices by stitch count — because the machine bills in run time and stitches are run time. Here's how to price it, including digitizing, with a calculator to try your own numbers.
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Pricing
How I build a screen printing price chart
Your print prices worked out ahead of time — every color count, every quantity — built on what your shop actually costs to run. Cost per print, real margin, two percentages to fill the grid, and the fees that decide small runs.
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Pricing
How to price a screen printing job without leaving money on the table
Blanks, printing, and setup are the only three costs in a screen printing job. Here's how to price all three the same way every time — with a calculator to try it on your own numbers.