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How do you charge for additional color

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Hi all,

How do you charge for design with more than one color? As percentage "single color" price, calculate it as separate color or what is the most common practice?

Thanks

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let me introduce myself - the resident smart a$$  .. . .. don't let the notation fool you in my profile I am not employed by usc just help mod and having one of "those" days - sorry

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let me introduce myself - the resident smart a$$  .. . .. don't let the notation fool you in my profile I am not employed by usc just help mod and having one of "those" days - sorry

Its true he is the resident smarta$$ there a couple I'm included. If your doing HTV you charge the same price or at least I have and no one ever complained, same with layered decals. Yeah you may use less so if you want to be fair you charge a little less.. You still have to weed it, and apply it.

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Its true he is the resident smarta$$ there a couple I'm included. If your doing HTV you charge the same price or at least I have and no one ever complained, same with layered decals. Yeah you may use less so if you want to be fair you charge a little less.. You still have to weed it, and apply it.

My question is If you charge more since it consumes more time to cut weed and apply layers + more material for multy layared designs

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You charge for the amount of vinyl you use in square inches, then you add a little for your time to weed and apply. Its extra material and extra time.

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I look at the area that is covered. If a design is mostly yellow but has a little red somewhere that is only 10% of the coverage then I charge according to that. If it's something that has full shadow effect on the original and covers the same area then I charge full price again for additional material, weeding and press cycle. Often multi layered are more of a PIA to do because of shirt shrinkage causing alignment (registration) issues so you end up spending way more time than just a second pass. 

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It's all about the time.... and, as they say, " The devil is in the details".

Therefore, small amounts of additional material usually push my price up more quickly than larger amounts of a second color.

Be mindful of the inordinate amount of time small details tend to add to the design & approval phases as well as the cut & application stages.

Seen so many times where most of the clients time-consuming back and forth was over the smallest of details, not the bigger, main concept.

I price based on the projected time to complete extra colors/details way more than the small amounts of material costs it will add.

Most clients/buyers tend not to understand or appreciate these principals and I generally don't use 'size-based' formulas for labor.

It's all about how long it's gonna take and each project tends to differ greatly so, learn to judge the time involved for each additional color.

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