What does an hour of your press actually cost?
The number every quote is built on, and the one most shops guess at. Put in your real overhead, payroll and press hours and get your break-even rate live. Nothing to sign up for.
Run the calculatorYour shop deserves better tools
AutoPrintShop is where a working screen printer shares what actually runs his shop: checklists, quote terms, and the pricing tool he built because nothing else did the math right.
Who built this
A printer, not a software company
I'm Ryan Lamb. My family and I run Lamb Screen Printing in San Diego, and I've been in this trade for over 25 years. Everything on this site exists because I needed it on my own floor first. More about the shop and why this site exists.
Free tools and downloads
Before you cancel Printavo
A one-page checklist of what to export before your account closes, and what the API will never give you. From a shop that moved 6,400 orders out.
Get the checklistThe Quote Terms Pack
The 15 terms Lamb Screen Printing prints on every quote, why each one is there, what other shops publish, and a version you can fill in with your own numbers.
Get the Quote Terms PackAI Data Safety for Print Shops
Which AI plans learn from your chats, what never to paste, and the one-page AI policy my shop uses. Free guide, with a kit to adapt for yours.
Read the guideLeaving Printavo: switch to what?
YoPrint, Teesom, shopVOX and DecoNetwork side by side from their own pricing pages and docs, and the eight questions I would ask any of them before signing. From a shop that moved 6,400 orders out.
Read the comparisonPress it, transfer it, or send it out?
Tell it what your shop runs and describe the job. It rates your own machines, bought transfers and subbing it out, with the reasons and what would change the answer.
Route a jobFrom the shop
- What I Learned Moving 6,400 Orders Out of Printavo
I moved 6,454 orders and every file out of Printavo before cancelling. The API died in 15 minutes, not five days. What to export, in what order, and when.
- What an Hour on Your Press Actually Costs
Most shops guess their hourly rate, and the guess is usually about half the real number. The math, the three lines everyone forgets, and a free calculator.
Built on this floor
Everything here was used at Lamb Screen Printing before it was published. The checklists, the quote terms, the pricing math. If it did not survive a Tuesday on the press, it is not on the site.
Pricing
PrintGrid
Most pricing calculators ask what you want to charge. PrintGrid starts with what it actually costs you, then shows your margin across every quantity and color count as a heatmap. Screen print, embroidery, DTF, HTV, large format and more.
See PrintGrid
Get the Quote Terms Pack and occasional shop notes
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Download the Quote Terms Pack (PDF)