UK guide
How UK printers price gang sheets: per metre, tiered and fixed sheets
UK DTF printers charge for film in one of three ways. Each one changes your total differently, and so do minimum orders, VAT and delivery.
Three ways a UK printer charges
Every UK printer we list uses one of these:
- Per metre
- One rate for each metre (or other length) of film. Twice the length costs twice as much.
- Tiered per metre
- The rate drops as the order gets longer. The whole order is charged at the rate for the step it reaches.
- Fixed sheets
- A set list of sheet lengths, each with its own price. Your sheet is rounded up to the smallest size that fits it.
Minimum orders
A per metre or tiered printer can set a minimum length. If your sheet is shorter, you still pay for the minimum, so a small job can cost the same as a longer one.
Fixed-sheet printers have no separate minimum: the smallest thing you can buy is their smallest sheet. You pay for whole sheets, including any empty space.
VAT
Printers show prices in one of three ways, and our totals follow each printer's own way.
- Including VAT
- The price you see is what you pay. We show how much of it is VAT.
- Excluding VAT
- We add VAT at 20% to the film and delivery.
- No VAT charged
- A few printers say they don't add VAT, so the price is what you pay.
This is general information about how totals are shown here, not tax advice for your order.
Delivery
Some printers show a flat delivery charge, or free delivery over a set amount, next to their prices. When a printer doesn't show delivery, we leave it out of the total and mark the price “+ delivery”.
Worked example
10 copies of a 100 × 150 mm design, 5 mm spacing and a 10 mm edge margin, packed onto 560 mm film. The packed sheet is 325 mm long, with 17.58% of the film unused.
Beyond Colour charges per metre, with a one-metre minimum. The job only needs 325 mm but is charged as a full metre: £7.00, plus £1.40 VAT (this printer's prices exclude VAT), so £8.40 in total.
Aspinline sells fixed sheets. The job is too long for the shortest one, so it goes on the next size up (560 × 500 mm) at £8.00, VAT included.
So for this job the fixed sheet is £0.40 cheaper, because the per metre printer charges a whole metre for a short job. On a longer job the per metre printer can work out cheaper, so it's worth comparing your own designs.
Checked 5 Nov 2026 from each printer's own page: Beyond Colour's price list and Aspinline's price list. Prices change; check the source before you order.
Totals for 1 m and 5 m
What the same sheet costs at every UK printer, lowest total first: 1 metre and 5 metres.