Screen Printing Business Startup Guide
Build a shop around setup discipline and accounts that reorder every year. This 29-page guide walks through settling where your screen-wash water goes before you sign a lease, calculating your own DTF-versus-screen crossover number, staying compliant with CPSIA on youth apparel, and pricing setup, per-shirt cost and extra colours separately — plus six working templates to run it with.
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What It Covers
Settle where the screen-wash water goes before you sign a lease — the gating question almost nobody researches first. Understand CPSIA compliance on youth and school apparel, including the real current penalty figures. Calculate your own DTF-versus-screen crossover instead of trusting a published number. Price setup, per-shirt cost and each extra colour as separate line items, and sell to organisations that reorder every year.
Six Working Templates
- Startup checklist
- Equipment and budget worksheet
- Pricing and estimate template
- Invoice template
- Job log and lead tracker
- Compliance and safety page
This guide gives you the framework. The full Screen Printing Business Plan ($27) adds a job quote calculator, a DTF crossover worksheet, a youth-order CPSIA compliance checklist, a production quality log, and equipment cost tiers from $1,750 to $80,000. See what’s inside the plan →