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screen printing => Non Textile => Topic started by: old guard graphics on November 02, 2013, 01:25:21 PM
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Anyone have any advice about screen printing kraft paper coffee cup sleeves?
• are there suppliers for buying blanks? or are they normally printed on a full sheet then die cut?
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Tough to make any money printing on products that retail for pennies or less. Mostly they'd be offset printed, die-cut/creased and glued in highly automated shops. A general rule of thumb is that if people use it once and throw it out, don't bother even quoting screenprinting.
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We mainly print apparel, but have a customer who will order 2,000 - 3,000 every month if we can figure out a way to do it and make a profit. From online retailers they seem to go for 25¢ - 30¢ at that volume. We would need to work fast.
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At that price you may be able to make some cash, but multi-up would definitely be the way to go. How many colors for the print? Do you die-cut in house?
Buying blanks and printing 1-up would be a tough gig I think.
Multi-up:
Pre-shear materials
Print (multi colour?)
laminate selective adhesive for forming cup sleeves
die-cut/crease
fold and form sleeve with adhesive tab.
I'd say 4,6 or maybe 8-up at a time unless you have large format equipment. Less costs of materials and labour and you might be lucky to get $0.70 - $1.10 per sheet of sleeves.
If you have to farm anything out like die-cutting, I'd probably say it'd be a tough go.