Wholesale & export
A printing mill in Surat, Gujarat, running cotton since 2002. Three markets: India, Nepal, Indonesia.
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01How this works
Wholesalers, importers and garment makers all buy printed cotton, and all three want a different conversation. The wholesaler wants to know a design will run. The importer wants the specification nailed down before anything moves. The garment maker wants to know how the cloth behaves once it is cut. This page is written for all three, in that order.
What you will not find here is a minimum quantity, a lead time in days or a rate per metre. Not because they are secret — because every one of them is set by your order rather than by our website. Each section below says what decides the figure and what to send so it can be quoted properly the first time.
Enquiries are answered within one working day.
02Who buys from us
You buy by the design and sell by the piece. What you need from a mill is a straight answer on whether a design will run at your quantity in your ground colour, and a lot that sits close enough to the last one that your counter never has to explain the difference.
You carry the risk across a border. What matters to you is the specification fixed in writing before anything runs, packing built for the route rather than for the warehouse, and documents that describe the goods exactly. A discrepancy on paper costs far more than a shade movement on cloth.
You are cutting into the cloth, so repeat, width and how the fabric behaves after a wash matter to you more than the motif does. Tell us what you are cutting into and how much wastage you can absorb, and the sampling conversation gets much shorter.
03The five variables
Every figure a buyer asks for is the output of a handful of decisions. Here are the decisions, so you can see where your own order lands before you write to us.
Minimum quantity is not one number we could print here. It follows how many screens a design needs, how many colourways you want inside a single run, and the base cloth you choose. One design in one colourway and four designs in three colourways each are different jobs on the floor, and they do not carry the same minimum. Send the design list and the colourways and the minimum becomes a specific figure instead of a policy.
The clock starts at strike-off approval, not when your enquiry lands. A design we already hold screens for moves differently from one being developed off your artwork, and an order placed against a festival moves through a busier floor than the same order placed in a quiet month. If you have a date you must hit — a season, a container booking, a buyer of your own waiting — put the date in the enquiry. We would rather turn a date down than miss it.
Rate follows the base cloth, the number of colours in the design, the length of the run and the finish. We publish no price list, because a published rate is either padded high enough to cover every case or pitched low enough to be a hook, and you would have to unwind it either way. Give us those four details and the figure that comes back belongs to your order.
How the cloth is folded, how many pieces make a lot, how the bale is wrapped and what is marked on the outside is agreed per order — and the route decides more of it than the buyer does. Cloth handled several times across a land border is not packed like cloth that goes into a container and is opened once at the far end. Tell us how it travels and packing is written into the quotation rather than assumed.
Payment terms depend on order value, destination and whether we have worked together before. A first order and a fifth order are not the same risk for either side, and pretending they are helps nobody. Whatever is agreed goes into the quotation in writing before a screen touches cloth, so there is no version of the terms that lives only in a conversation.
04Where it goes
The destination changes the job before it changes the price. Give us the city at enquiry and it is factored in from the start rather than bolted on at dispatch.
The home market, and the one where cloth can move without a border in the middle of it. Distance still changes packing and timing, so the destination city goes in the enquiry alongside the quantity.
Most cloth into Nepal travels overland. Which crossing your consignment clears at — Birgunj, or another — decides what paperwork travels with it and how many times the bale is handled before it reaches a godown in Kathmandu. Tell us the crossing if you know it.
Sea freight, and the destination port is part of the specification rather than an afterthought. Surabaya and Jakarta are not interchangeable for timing, and a piece composed for one Indonesian buyer is not automatically right for the next one.
05Your enquiry
Most bulk enquiries arrive with a design name and a request for the best rate. That exchange takes a week. This one takes a day.
Request a quotationOr write to info@batikprints.in, message WhatsApp, or call +91 95745 50119. Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm (IST).
The range or design you want, or a daylight photograph of the cloth you are matching.
The quantity you intend to place, and whether it repeats or is a one-time lot.
The destination city and how the consignment travels — overland or by sea.
The specification you sell to, if you have one written down. If not, the piece you already buy.
The date the goods have to be with you, and what happens at your end if they are not.
06Bulk questions
We supply three markets: India, Nepal and Indonesia. Enquiries reach the mill in Surat rather than an agent, and the first reply comes from the people who would print the order. For anything outside those three markets, ask — we would rather say so plainly than accept an order we cannot serve properly.
We can tell you what a quotation would depend on, and we can tell you whether a design runs at the scale you are considering. A figure without a quantity attached is guesswork, and guesswork in this trade tends to be either useless or misleading. Give us a range you are genuinely working within and the answer becomes real.
That is agreed per consignment and set out in the quotation, because it changes with the destination and with how you prefer to work. What we will not do is leave it vague until dispatch. If your side has a forwarder, tell us at enquiry so the packing and the paperwork are built around them from the start.
Within one working day. The mill is open Mon to Sat, 10 am to 7 pm IST, so an enquiry written on a Sunday evening reaches us on Monday morning in Surat. If your message carries the design, the quantity and the destination, the first reply can be an answer rather than a request for more information.
Tell us the design, quantity and destination. Let’s take it from there.
Request a quoteMonday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm (IST)
