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Profit margin. When you buy a shirt from your local retailer, your local retailer captures the profit margin from wholesale pricing to retail pricing. Your embroiderer (and screen printer) can purchase garments at wholesale pricing too and would like to capture that margin themselves. They will prioritize jobs that allow them to do so because…that’s good business.

Consumption of time. There is a limit of how much people will spend to embroider a garment. Embroiderers need to use their time efficiently to make their operation profitable, or else they will not be around the following year. Running around and meeting up with a client to pass, inspect, learn a new garment, and taking care to avoid damaging …

Suitability of the garment itself. I had a client present to us fleece jackets that she purchased from a warehouse store. She was very proud of her success in finding a cheap deal on these jackets. What she did not consider was that there was decorative piping running vertically through the left chest area where she wanted her logo placed. …

I’ll summarize it this way: new vs. used clothing. Some customers will bring used clothing and ask that something be embroidered upon it. An embroidery machine is an expensive of capital equipment. Proper maintenance is required. New (clean) clothing is free of any lingering dirt or detergent powder that can damage the equipment. If you let a mechanic put used …

There is a damage rate with embroidery of about 2%. While those odds are low for any one item, it does happen. Most embroiderers would prefer to be able to replace a garment quietly from their own supplier rather than have to come back to you, hat in hand, asking where you bought your shirt. That said, if the client …