​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
Phone - 07535140771


Supply Your Own Guidelines 2025

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 and one offs.
It is prefered that fabric is presented on a stented core (the fabric is on the roll straight) but
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/roll for a small fee as this takes more time
than you would realise.

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.
Main sublimation (man-made fibres) runs may have up to around 50cm blank to start the run
off and pigment runs (natural fibres) may have around 25cm at the start and the end but we
will do our best, and generally do, manage to minimise this.

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 different 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 said fabric.
 

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 £50 plus VAT

Sample shipping is £8

Main runs are £10 plus VAT per linear metre

Rerolling fee is £1.50 per linear metre

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 7 - 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.