Prices

Other Charges

Set Up and Art

• Screen setup (standard screenprinting): No charge.
• Garment sorting (for contract customers) : If you are providing garments that are individually folded, bagged, or otherwise difficult to unpack and sort, then additional charges may apply at the rate of $75 an hour, with a minimum of 1/2 hour.
• Artwork separation, retouching, reformatting and design: $75/hr after first 15 minutes.

Ink Mixing and Changing

• Ink change: $15 (minimum of 24 pieces per ink color)
• Pantone color match: $15 – If you use any of our house colors, then no ink mixing fees will apply. Please see our house color list.

Proofs and Samples

• Digital press proofs (a photograph of the first garment printed) are available for $50 per impression location, offered at a prearranged time, and with a 15 minute window for approval. Additional charges may apply if we cannot reach the customer or if we do not receive a response within that 15 minute window. Additional charges may apply for digital press proofs based on the complexity of the print, and the amount of time on the press, which will be billed at the rate of $50 for each additional 15 minute increment of time. Additional charges will apply if there are any changes to an order or design after a digital press check.

  For example,if we email a customer to show them something and have to stop and re set up the press, then we charge $25 screen set ups as needed.

• Pre press production samples cost $50 per color printed per location and are subject to standard turn time. We will credit back the cost of a sample if the sample invoice is 10% or less than the production run invoice total.
• We do not offer in house press checks.

Finishing and Shipping

• Fold and bag w/ label: 50 cents each.  The label is a 2 5/8×1" label stuck on the outside of the bag.  The label indicates the size of the shirt inside and we will place your logo and website on the label.
• Attach hang tag: 25 cents each.
• Private Label: Call or email for a quote on custom relabel on orders that we print.
• Shipping: We ship anywhere UPS does in the United States.
• Split Shipments: We will split up your order and ship to multiple locations for $25 per location after the first. If you wait until the order is complete and boxed up before letting us know about the split shipments, then we charge $50 per additional location.

Rush Fees

If orders are needed on a tight timeline that we cannot accomodate within our normal production schedule, then the following rush charges may apply.

• 9 business days, add 10% to the invoice total.
• 8 business days, add 20% to the invoice total.
• 7 business days, add 30% to the invoice total.
• 6 business days, add 40% to the invoice total.
• 5 business days, add 50% to the invoice total.
• 4 business days, add 60% to the invoice total.
• 3 business days, add 70% to the invoice total.
• 2 business days, add 80% to the invoice total.
• 1 business day, add 100% to the invoice total.

Garment selection on rush jobs may be limited.

Graphic Design Services

Here at Forward Printing, we recommend customers come with their own art, or work with a graphic designer on their own time to develop the art for their project, in order to ensure that your tees are printed in a timely fashion. However, if this is not an option, we can offer graphic design services at $75/hour, billed in half hour increments.

Before beginning any graphic design work, the client and the designer will clearly lay out exactly what work is to be done, and how the end product will look. Please note that there is a great deal of “behind the scenes” graphic design work that is time consuming but may not be evident until the final product is printed, such as color separations, and redrawing certain elements to make them print ready at high resolutions, and these are considered when the designer gives an estimate for how long a project will take.

Once the estimate for graphic design work has been approved by the client, and terms agreed upon, the designer will begin working. The graphic design department can only do the work that you ask for, so please be explicit about the end product you have in mind, and when presented with works in progress, please state clearly what you like, and what needs to be changed (and how). With each project, the client will be allowed two revisions (minor quick fixes, such as “move this text slightly” may not count towards these, at the designer’s discretion).

We have a limited amount of time to spend on creating customer art since we need to focus on printing. In some instance we may have to reject requests for graphic design work when our workload does not permit.