Screen Printing Tips

• It's important to remember that every color you want used in your artwork means another screen to create, set-up, and print through. The costs connected with these screens depend on the techniques used.
• It's always beneficial to print more items than less because of the set-up charges involved. If in doubt about the final quantity of screenprinted items you'll need, it's often more economical to order more than you think will be required.
• Every color has an associated cost; different colors have different chemical make-ups, which make them more or less expensive than others.
• Drop shadows, shading and anything that blends from light to dark will probably end up looking like a series of dots and should be avoided. (This does not apply to single-color halftone gradients).

Most likely, the following special requirements will add to your screenprinting costs:

• If you need your screenprinting to match an exact color, requiring inks be custom-mixed to achieve that PMS color
• The process that allows colors to show correctly on dark goods
• Additional locations on a garment
• Special (not the normal) logo locations

Standard screen print Placements

*  This information is courtesy of Bodek and Rhodes.