InkTracker

Free Screen Printing Price Calculator

Build a price-per-print chart from what your shop actually costs to run — then stack garment, setup, and extra locations to price the whole job. No signup.

1. Build your print chart

Two numbers set the whole chart: what your shop costs to run in a month, and how many prints you push in that month. Divide one by the other and that's your cost per print. Your base price is that cost divided by (1 − your margin) — because margin isn't markup: keeping 45% means dividing by 0.55, not multiplying by 1.45. Bigger runs cost less per shirt (setup spreads out); each added color adds a shrinking slice.

Total monthly costsrent, power, supplies, your pay
$14,000
Prints per monthhow many you print in a month
4,000
Target marginthe profit slice you keep
45%
Volume discountknocked off at each size break
10%
Added coloreach extra color adds
10%
Cost per print
$3.50
Base print price
$6.36
Colors \ Qty2550100200
1 color$6.36$5.73$5.27$4.93
2 colors$7.00$6.30$5.80$5.43
3 colors$7.63$6.87$6.32$5.91
4 colors$8.25$7.42$6.83$6.39
5 colors$8.85$7.96$7.33$6.86
6 colors$9.43$8.49$7.81$7.31
7 colors$9.99$8.99$8.27$7.74
8 colors$10.52$9.47$8.71$8.15

Per print, before garment. Click a cell to price that combination below.

2. The full price

The chart is the print. Three things stack on top: garment markup, setup fees per screen, and additional print locations. Click a chart cell above to load it here, or set the run yourself.

Colorsink colors on the front print
3
Quantityshirts in the run
72
Garment (blank) costwhat you pay per shirt
$6.00
Second print location (additional locations share setup — priced at half)
Setup fee ($25 / screen)
Print — front3 colors · $6.87/print × 72 (priced at the 50 tier)
$494.42
Garment$6.00 × 1.40 markup × 72
$604.80
Setup & screen fees3 screens × $25
$75.00
Order total
$1174.22
Per shirt
$16.31

Garment markup slides down as blanks get pricier (40% on a cheap tee, ~15% on a $30 hoodie) so you don't price yourself out on expensive garments. Setup is one-time per screen; the print and garment scale with quantity.

Stop rebuilding this by hand

This is the free version of the pricing engine we built into InkTracker — it holds your chart, garment markup, and setup fees and stacks them on every quote automatically. Start a 14-day free trial.

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Want the full method, in a printer's own words? Read how I build a screen printing price chart and how to price a single job. More free tools on the tools hub, and see what InkTracker does for print shops.