Setup Costs

Note: Contact us for the most up to date setup costs.

The nature of the Promotional Products Industry is that you are adding a logo or design to an existing product. Although imprinting a logo is not a manufacturing type event, the process of placing a logo onto a product is. This imprinting process may involve a one time setup charge to cover machine start up costs, especially for small orders. Many of our suppliers, for whom we act as "distributors", will build the setup price into the price of the product. For example, 150 pens @ $1.00 per pen with no setup charge. Others have setups ranging from $20 to $60, depending on the product (i.e. from vinyl portfolios to coffee mugs). There also may be a one time setup charge for the logo although on repeat orders there is usually a reduced charge or none at all.

The SETUP CHARGES noted above relates mostly to what we refer to as "Hard Goods". This is a product with a hard surface to imprint upon. "Soft Goods" are generally products such as Ball Caps and Garments. With these types of items the two most common methods of decoration are "Embroidery and Silkscreening".

EMBROIDERY setup costs are generally related to the setup of a master disk. This "Disk" is designed by a separate supplier of ours before the logo can be embroidered at the embroidery shop. There, every individual item is stitched with a logo or design specifically requested by our clients. This disk is a one time charge unless edits are needed to change the logo. Ninety five percent of all logos or designs for soft goods require a setup. The other five percent that don't require a disk would be simple lettering designs such as "DARRELL'S PLUMBING". Average costs for embroidery disks are usually in the $75-$125 price range (i.e. 5000 stitches). Large designs that would cover the back of a garment (12" x 12") could run up to a few hundred dollars for the disk. (i.e. master disk= $75/4000 stitches; embroidery for 48 ball caps=$7 to $8 per ball cap plus cap price)
For further information on embroidery see: www.threads4you.com

SILKSCREENING setup costs for soft goods are generally not charged as all costs are built into the quantity and price breakdown. (i.e. art charge= $20, One color imprint for 48 Tshirts=$1.60 per shirt plus Tshirt) All our apparel have one colour silkscreen included in the imprint price shown unless other wise stated.
For further information on silkscreening go to: www.all- texproducts.com

ARTWORK costs (on top of the setup charges) are an additional cost that many of our customers inquire about. Most logos or designs require some sort of artwork other than a simple sketch drawn on a piece of paper. If all that is required is typesetting (i.e. "DARRELL'S SIGN SHOP"). most of our suppliers will set this up at no cost. If a company logo or team name/design are required our suppliers need artwork generated by a print shop. This would be on a disk or a black and white PMT. If this is not available we must recreate it for application on any hard goods. The only exception to this is when embroidery is required. For embroidery we often only require a sketch or business card to create the logo or design.