← Screen printing & embroidery price calculator
Printavo is a well-known paid shop-management platform for decorated-apparel businesses, built to run a shop's day-to-day quote-to-invoice workflow — online quote requests, invoicing and payment collection, production scheduling, and customer approvals, sold as an ongoing subscription and described on printavo.com. It is the kind of tool a shop reaches for once it needs to manage many jobs, customers, and a production calendar at once.
That is a different job from the one this page does. This calculator has no customer records, no invoicing, and no production schedule. It exists for the narrower task that comes before any of that: working out what one job actually costs per piece — from screens or digitising, press or stitch time, blanks with a spoilage allowance, and a share of overhead — and what it costs at every standard quantity tier, with nothing to sign up for.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need to take online quote requests, send invoices, collect payment, and schedule production across many jobs. | Printavo or a comparable shop-management platform — day-to-day workflow is not something this calculator attempts. |
| What does this specific job actually cost me per piece, given its screens or digitising, run time, blanks, and quantity? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| Why does a 12-piece order cost more per piece than a 288-piece order of the same design? | This calculator's quantity-break table, which spreads the same one-off setup across each tier. |
| I already know my price matrix. I need to send a quote, invoice it, and track it through production. | Printavo or a comparable platform — quoting, invoicing, and scheduling are not this calculator's job. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Printavo is used through a paid subscription account. |
Most shops get different value from each: Printavo (or a comparable platform) for running quotes, invoices, and production scheduling as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login check of what a job should cost before that number ever reaches a quoting system. This calculator's own output is a cost check, not a record of your shop's customers, quotes, or invoices.
It needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
They answer different questions. Printavo is a paid subscription platform built to run a decorator's day-to-day workflow -- online quote requests, invoicing, payment collection, production scheduling, and approvals -- once a shop already knows what to charge, described on Printavo's own site. This calculator does none of that. It is a free, browser-only page for the narrower job that comes before any of it: working out what a specific screen print, embroidery, or DTF job actually costs per piece from your own screens or digitising, press or stitch time, blanks, spoilage, and overhead, with no account and nothing uploaded. A shop that needs online quote requests, invoice collection, and a production calendar is looking for the wrong tool here; a shop setting or checking a price before it goes into a quoting system is in the right place.
Printavo quotes and invoices at whatever price a shop enters into its price matrix; it manages sending, tracking, and collecting on that price, not deriving it from screens, press time, stitch count, or blanks. This calculator does the opposite: it takes your decoration method, quantity, setup, run cost, blanks with a spoilage allowance, and overhead, and works out the cost per piece, the break-even price, and the margin at what you quoted -- the arithmetic a shop does before a price exists to put in a quoting system, not the quoting itself.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Printavo or its parent company, Inktavo. Printavo is named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Screen Printing & Embroidery Price Calculator to price your own job.