Fabric printing as a business

The business idea is to print various images and pictures on clothing, home textiles, bags and accessories with the help of technology direct printing on fabric.

Modern equipment for printing on fabric gives unlimited possibilities for continuous development of business, expansion of the range and offers a truly exclusive product which will be of interest to the buyer. The main thing in this business to maximize your creativity, learn equipment and search for the most profitable use of its capabilities.

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The main range can be divided into 3 groups:

1. A variety of clothing for adults and children with images – t-shirts, shorts, t-shirts, Paita, dresses, skirts, jackets.

2. Clothes for promo-actions clients.

3. Accessories and Souvenirs — bags, wallets, cosmetic bags, covers for tablets and e-books, pillows.

 

This activity does not require a large amount of equipment and staff, so the room 20-30 sqm will be sufficient for the organization of production. The main requirement for the room – good ventilation. At the beginning, all work can be carried out independence, but the increase in orders will need to hire a helper to print and to collaborate with designers.

The main equipment for printing on textiles:
 

  • Printer Colors DFP-08A2 tex for direct printing on ready-made garments, natural fabrics, cost 360, 000.
  • Tablet Colors heat press machine SHT-24LP1 40 x 60 cm to fix the image on the cloth cost 19 008 RUB.
  • Computer software – the cost of 27 000 RUB.
The total cost of the main equipment: 406 008 RUB.

 

This set of equipment will give you the opportunity to print the image on fabric and ready-made garments, cotton, denim, linen, mixed fabrics of any color, size up to A2.

To print images the size of A1 will be the best tablet format printer BusJet 701 Super (Tex), 8 colors, 2880 dpi, for printing images on finished products made of natural fabrics – cost 628 386 RUB.

In this case, the cost of the main equipment will be 674 394 RUB.

You will also need additional equipment: computer table, printer and heat press, chairs, racks for finished products and consumable materials. The total cost will be about 25 000 rubles.

Printing technology on fabrics

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The printing process consists of several stages:

1. In hoops the printer refuels the finished product (e.g. t-shirts). This is to ensure that the surface of the fabric, which will be applied to the image, it was flat and smooth.

2. Prepared in a graphics editor, the image is printed and transferred onto the fabric, it takes from 20 seconds to 3 minutes depending on saturation and image size.

3. The product is placed in a heat press machine to fix the image for 2-3 minutes at a temperature of 150-160 degrees.

 

When drawing clothes with the same logo production time 1 unit will be about 5 minutes, and print photos in a single copy will take about 15 minutes. Thus, in day it is possible to produce 32 to 96 products, depending on complexity.

Increase productivity, possibly through the recruitment of additional employees, then there will be several stages of the production process and the amount of time per unit will decrease.

For printing, uses special textile inks. We recommend the following scheme for printing of 8 colors — CMYK + Or,Bl ,R,K the Cost of this set of 33 000 RUB. per 100 sq. m print with 100% fill.

Calculation of profitability

Consider the cost of 1 men's shirts of cotton with the image of A3 and fill 100%.
 

  • The cost of ink and 39.6 RUB.
  • The cost of the finished t-shirts – 104 RUB.
 

Total direct costs: 143,6 RUB.

Additional expenditure (electricity, maintenance of equipment, auxiliary materials – from 2% to 5% depending on performance) – 7,18 RUB.

Total cost of 1 t-shirt: 150,78 RUB.

Today the price of these shirts ranges from 500 to 1200 rubles, that is quite actual selling price of 600 rubles., the return on sales will amount to 417%.

For orders of t-shirts with the same logo from 50 PCs. with image of A4 size and fill 30% unit cost will be 102, 96 RUB While it is possible to buy ready-made t-shirts wholesale and the price will be lower – around 95 RUB

The cost of selling these shirts for a unit will be 173 RUB.
The return on sales 182%.

Revenue from sales depending on the product range by downloading the production of of 50% will be from 182 000 to 211 000.

Given the average return of 200%, the gross profit will be about 90 000 RUB 100 000 RUB.

Fixed costs (rent, Internet, phone, transport costs, taxes and contributions, advertising) will be 30 000 RUB to 40 000 RUB.

Net profit with no employees and production loading of 50% will be about 60 000 RUB. per month.

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Summary

In this business you need to focus on one type of product, for example, t-shirts, as the demand for them has sharp seasonal winter demand falls. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the range, to change it depending on the time of year and to promote the most suitable product for the selected target audience.

Also in this segment a lot of competition, because to print some t-shirts a lot easier, so imagination and a constant extension of the assortment will be a great competitive advantage in this business.published  

 

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