Detailed description
Three decisions fix the price of this item: the material, the attachment method and the artwork. Change any one and the tooling, the minimum and the lead time all move with it.
Where it is used
It goes onto polyester sports fabric, cotton drill, nylon outerwear, canvas bags and caps. The one combination that fails most often is a heat transfer onto a coated or water-repellent fabric, because the coating releases before the adhesive cures.
The material question
The construction is made to artwork, so the material and the attachment method are agreed before tooling rather than described in a catalogue. Send the drawing and the fabric it goes on and the construction follows from those two facts.
How it is quoted
Quotations separate the one-off tooling from the piece price, because they behave differently. Tooling is paid once and kept on file against your artwork; the piece price falls with quantity and with how many designs share one sheet.
What ships with the goods
Wash-test results are reported per lot where the customer specifies a cycle count, and the test method is named on the report rather than described as 'washable'.
Checking it on arrival
Measure the size on the finished piece, not on the artwork. Moulded pieces shrink and embroidered pieces pull in, and a five percent difference is visible on a cap front.
Send the artwork, the fabric and the quantity and the quote comes back split into tooling and piece price so you can compare it against your current supplier line by line.
