We’ve all been there. You’ve finally decided to get some professional gear for your small team, your bowling league, or your home-based business. You find a local shop like Donsdatter Ink Ltd., you pick out a great colour shirt , and you ask for a quote for 12 shirts. Then, you see it: the setup fee . Sometimes, that fee can feel like it’s doubling the price of your order. It’s enough to make any business owner scratch their head and think, "It’s just 12 shirts! Why is this so expensive?" We get it. When you’re running a micro-business, every dollar counts. You aren't trying to be difficult; you just want to understand where your money is going. At Donsdatter Ink, we believe in total transparency. We don’t want our pricing to be a mystery. The short answer is that custom screen printing is a highly physical, labor-intensive craft. Whether we are printing 12 shirts or 1,200 shirts, the work required to get the first shirt through the press is exactly the same. Let’s pul...