​We now offer a service for you to supply your own suitable fabrics to print.
Please see below for a guide to the process this undertakes. Please ask us any questions you may have.
 
This service can not be purchased directly through the site and prices are for BACS or card payments only.
 
Please contact us via any of the below channels to discuss your requirements. We are here to help.
 
Email - info@britishfabricprinting.co.uk
Phone - 07557041354


Supply Your Own Guidelines 2026

These are guidelines only and things to consider or expect when we prepare, print and fixate
onto your own supplied fabric base. Natural fibres are pigment printed and polyester based
fabrics a dye sublimated.

Sampling

For brand new clients sampling is understandably mandatory. We want you to make sure you
are happy with our finishes and that the fabric you supply is suitable for us to print onto. This
can be up to three metres and not delivered on a cardboard core, we shall re-roll it onto a
core within the price.

You may not get all three metres printed as we need a certain amount at the start and at the
end of the fabric to get going and end with. This is traditionally known as "roll on, roll off" but
we will do our best to limit the amount needed depending on the base fabric.
If when your fabric turns up we know straight away that it will not be suitable to print on to
we will not invoice you and send your fabric back once you send us a returns/royal mail/dhl
label.

Even if we believe the fabric base to be suitable (eg: polyester and not acrylic or non treated
nylon) and we do the trial runs with not great colour yield there are no refunds. This is what
sampling is about. Your supplier will be able to tell the composition though so there should
be no issues.

Main runs
Unless otherwise agreed all main runs are a minimum of 10 metres. This can be multiple designs as well, which gives you the flexibility to produce custom pieces.

 

Rerolling fees

The fabric needs to be presented as prepared for print (PFP) stented on a 3 inch core (the fabric is on the roll straight). We will roll bolted fabric (fabric that comes on a piece of cardboard that has been folded in half before it goes onto said board) onto a core for a small fee as this takes more time than you would realise. If fabric is sent on anything other than a 3 inch stented core we will have to reroll it onto a 3 inch core. The fabric needs to be under tension and it is not worth the risk of wasting your fabric when it is on a smaller less rigid stable core.

 

Please do not reroll fabric yourself. If the roll is more than 10m then send the entire roll, let us know what you need printed and we shall store the fabric ready for your next order. You would be surprised at how static fabric can be and what it can pick up from surfaces and thus creating areas of misprint. If no further print jobs are needed within a year then we will contact you to arrange a collection of what is left. If we don't hear back within 4 weeks we shall discard the fabric.

 

Please do not send any main run fabric loose/folded. We can not reroll loose fabric over 3 metres as our work place does not have the space to do so. Also as mentioned it would have generally picked up via static all sorts even if only minor, it can, and more than likely will, affect the print. When printed there will generally be some white selvage either side of the fabric to reduce the chance of the machines printing ink onto the belt which ruins them. Runs may have up to around 30cm (sometimes 50cm for interlock and ribbed due to the nature of the fabric) blank at the start and a small amount at the end but we will do our best, and generally do, manage to minimise this.

Logistics

Shipping to and from the print shop is solely down to the client for main runs as it is not our
fabric we can not be held liable for anything that may, unfortunately, go missing in transit. For
the sample process we would use royal mail who are pretty trustworthy to return your
printed fabric.
 

Prices

Sampling is £60 plus VAT

Sample shipping is £8.50 plus VAT

Main runs are £11 plus VAT per linear metre

Rerolling fee is £1.50 plus VAT per linear metre (This will be charged if the fabric does not come on a 3 inch core prepared for print. Please see above for details)

No setup fees, no other hidden cost. All transfer paper, ink, protection paper and fixation is
included within the prices.
 

Other useful information

If ever this sample went missing we will gladly cover the reprinting and sampling cost but the
fabric unfortunately wouldn't be our liability as we never sold you it in the first place. All
prices are for our ink, processing materials and labour only.

Lead times are generally around 10 working days but for really large orders I would give
you a more realistic timescale so you know where you are at.

When placing and paying for an order you are also agreeing to our T&Cs.

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