How to configure Screen Printing Decoration Process Price Table and Settings

The Screen Printing decoration process in DecoNetwork allows you to accurately price screen printed jobs based on quantity, ink colors, underbase handling, and customer pricing levels. Proper configuration ensures customers receive accurate pricing online while your production team works with the correct color palette and artwork workflow.

This article explains how to configure Screen Printing decoration process settings, including pricing tables, underbase options, color palettes, artwork workflow, and price level mapping.

In This Article

• Prerequisites
• Why configure Screen Printing?
• Step 1: Configure General Settings
• Step 2: Create Screen Printing Price Tables
• Step 3: Configure the Color Palette
• Step 4: Configure Artwork Fees
• Step 5: Assign Price Tables to Decoration Pricing
• Best Practices
• Troubleshooting
• FAQs
• Additional Resources

Prerequisites

Why configure Screen Printing?

Correctly configuring Screen Printing helps you:

• Apply minimum order quantities automatically.
• Price jobs according to ink colors and quantity.
• Correctly handle white underbases.
• Provide customers with only the ink colors you actually stock.
• Route artwork through your artwork approval process before production.
• Offer different pricing for retail and contract customers.

Step 1: Configure General Settings

Begin by configuring the general Screen Printing process settings.

1. Go to Admin → Decoration Processes.
2. Select Screen Printing.
3. Open the General tab.
4. Set the minimum order quantity.
5. Specify the maximum number of artwork colors customers may upload.

Step 2: Create Screen Printing Price Tables

Screen Printing pricing is normally based on both quantity and the number of ink colors.

1. Open the Price Tables tab.
2. Create a new price table.
3. Enter a descriptive name.
4. Configure how white underbases should be treated.
5. Enter your quantity breaks.
6. Enter pricing for each color and quantity combination.
7. Save the price table.

Configure the white underbase

You can price underbases in two different ways:

• Count as an additional color – A white underbase increases the total color count.
• Charge an additional underbase fee – The design color count remains unchanged, but an additional underbase charge is applied.

Understanding quantity breaks

Although the pricing matrix begins at quantity 1, customers must still meet the minimum order quantity configured in the General settings before they can place an order.

Step 3: Configure the Color Palette

Because Screen Printing is typically a spot-color decoration process, customers should only be able to select ink colors that your shop actually stocks.

1. Open the Color Palette tab.
2. Choose one of the following:
   • Import a palette from a CSV file.
   • Add an existing color palette.
3. Rename colors as required.
4. Remove colors you do not stock.
5. Save your palette.

Step 4: Configure Artwork Fees

Artwork Fees determine whether artwork automatically enters your artwork approval workflow.

1. Open the Artwork Fee tab.
2. Enable Automatically Create Artwork Job if artwork should always be reviewed before production.
3. Configure artwork fee options according to your business practices.

Step 5: Assign Price Tables to Decoration Pricing

After creating your price tables, assign them to the appropriate customer price levels.

1. Open the Decoration Pricing tab.
2. Select the Screen Printing price table for each price level.
3. Configure the Screen Setup Fee if applicable.
4. Repeat for additional customer price levels.
5. Save your changes.

Using multiple price tables

Premium and Enterprise licenses can create multiple Screen Printing price tables. This allows different pricing for different customer groups.

For example:

• Price Level 1 → Retail pricing table with no screen setup fee.
• Price Level 2 → Contract pricing table with a separate screen setup fee.

Best Practices

• Always configure a realistic minimum order quantity for Screen Printing.
• Include the white underbase when deciding your maximum color limit.
• Use spot color palettes that match the inks you actually keep in stock.
• Rename imported colors using terminology familiar to your production staff.
• Review artwork before charging artwork preparation fees.
• Create separate price tables for retail and contract customers where appropriate.
• Regularly review pricing tables as production costs change.

Troubleshooting

Customers can order fewer than my minimum quantity

Verify the minimum order quantity is configured in the General settings for the Screen Printing process.

Pricing seems incorrect for dark garments

Review your underbase configuration to ensure white underbases are being priced the way your shop intends.

Customers see colors we don't stock

Review the assigned color palette and remove or rename unwanted colors.

Screen setup fees aren't being charged

Confirm the Screen Setup Fee has been configured under Decoration Pricing rather than Artwork Fees.

Different customers receive the wrong pricing

Verify each customer price level is mapped to the correct Screen Printing price table.

FAQs

Can I have different Screen Printing price tables?

Yes. Premium and Enterprise plans support multiple price tables that can be assigned to different customer price levels.

Does the white underbase always count as another color?

No. You can either count it as an additional color or apply a separate underbase charge.

Can I import my existing ink colors?

Yes. Color palettes can be imported from a CSV file or created manually.

Can I rename imported colors?

Yes. Color names can be edited to match your shop's terminology.

Should every order automatically create an artwork job?

Most shops enable this so artwork is reviewed before production, even when no artwork fee is charged.

Additional Resources

• How to Enable a Decoration Process
• Screen Printing Production Settings
• Screen Printing Designer Settings
• Screen Printing Price Tables