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Sublimation Price

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Price your sublimation work with every cost in view.

Add blanks, ink, paper, labor, failed items and selling fees. See a defensible price, profit and margin before you quote the job.

  • Markup and margin are separate
  • Batch setup time is included
  • Your numbers stay in this browser

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Price a sublimation order

Enter your actual costs. Nothing you type is sent to our server.

Start with

Preset numbers are editable examples, not industry averages.

1. Order and materials
Finished items the customer receives.
per attempt
per attempt
per attempt
per attempt
per attempt Included in the failure-rate adjustment.
% Expected material cost is divided by the good-yield rate, not multiplied by 1 + failure rate.
2. Time and labor
min / batch
min / item
per hour
3. Fees, shipping, and pricing goal
per order What shipping actually costs you.
per order Shown separately from the product subtotal.
per order
% Applied to product subtotal plus shipping charged.
%
Advanced costs
per item
Wholesale tiers

Each quantity recalculates setup allocation before the optional discount. Negative-profit tiers are flagged.

Wholesale quantity and discount inputs
QuantityDiscount
%
%
%
Wholesale tier check

A discount is applied after each quantity receives its own setup-cost calculation. Status compares the result with the selected margin or markup target.

QtyDiscountProduct / itemProfit / batchMarginHourly returnStatus

Planning estimate only. Verify your own costs, marketplace terms, taxes, and local obligations before quoting a customer.

Worked example

A 12-mug order is more than 12 blanks.

This example pays for setup and active work, allows for an 8% failure rate, and accounts for a 6.5% selling fee. Change any input in the calculator to match your shop.

12 blanks, ink/paper and packaging$2.30 each
Expected material cost after 8% failures$30.00 batch
12 min setup + 6 min each at $20/hour$28.00
Equipment and overhead$6.00
Target margin / selling fee45% / 6.5% + $0.20
Calculated selling price$11.03 per mug

Math: ($64.00 batch cost + $0.20 fixed fee) ÷ (1 − 45% margin − 6.5% variable fee) ÷ 12 units. Taxes and shipping are separate.

The two formulas people mix up

Markup is not margin.

Choose the business target you actually mean. The calculator shows both, so a 50% markup cannot quietly masquerade as a 50% margin.

Markup mode

Add a percentage of cost to your cost.

Price = cost × (1 + markup)

Target-margin mode

Solve for the revenue left after cost and selling fees.

Revenue = (cost + fixed fee) ÷ (1 − margin − fee rate)

A repeatable quote

Know where every number came from.

  1. Enter current costs

    Use the price you actually paid for blanks, consumables and packaging—not an old industry average.

  2. Pay for time and failures

    Separate setup from per-item labor, then use expected yield instead of simply adding the failure percentage.

  3. Check the result

    Review break-even, profit, margin, markup and the full batch before you send the quote.

Transparent by design

Defaults are examples, not “the right price.”

Your blank cost, waste rate, local wage target, marketplace plan and shipping arrangement can all change the answer. Every preset is editable, and fast-changing fee examples carry a review date.

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