KENYA · GUIDE 0993 · EDITION 4.2

Screen printing service in Kenya: Risks and Launch Plan

Set the conditions for a safe commercial test

ink exposure
copyright breach

Changing blanks or ink without repeating samples can separate finished goods from the approved proof, even when artwork dimensions and placement remain correct throughout the batch.

A risk list is useful only when it changes a decision. For each risk, write the observable warning, who checks it and the response before the next commitment. Do not treat a reserve of money as permission to continue unsafe or unauthorized work.

Use a small, measurable pilot

Print a sample on the exact substrate before batching

The pilot scope is: Plan screen printing for the exact substrate, authorized artwork, colour placement, and finish, documenting compatibility before promising equivalent reproduction across different garments or supplied products.

Gate	Evidence before continuing
Scope agreed	Plan screen printing for the exact substrate, authorized artwork, colour placement, and finish, documenting compatibility before promising equivalent reproduction across different garments or supplied products.
Output acceptable	Approve a physical print on the final substrate, inspecting registration, coverage, surface condition, and appropriate care performance rather than treating digital artwork as sufficient production evidence.
Costs recorded	Include screens, colour separation, registration, safe controls, test substrates, ink losses, cleaning, and rejects rather than quoting only print dimensions before assessing the production combination.
Buyer response recorded	Keep artwork rights, substrate identity, sample approval, process observations, registration corrections, care checks, and rejects so repeat orders reproduce the accepted material and print combination.

Stage the launch around prerequisites

First confirm the buyer specification and activity requirements. Then compare suppliers, establish suitable facilities and prepare the operating record. Run the bounded trial when those prerequisites are in place. Review actual costs, quality failures and cash collected before increasing the commitment.

This sequence is not a promise that the complete business cycle fits into 30 days. Growing periods, qualifications, approvals, seasonal access and customer buying cycles can require longer. Revise the schedule when a prerequisite changes rather than skipping it to meet a launch date.

Choose continue, revise, pause or stop

Continue only when the scoped result is accepted and direct costs and payment timing are workable. Revise one part of the offer if the problem is identifiable and affordable to test again. Pause when required information, permission, skills or resources are missing. Stop the affected work when safety, consent or lawful authority is uncertain.

Keep a maximum test loss and unpaid-balance limit suited to your actual funds. A successful single delivery is useful evidence, but it does not establish year-round demand or justify committing every available resource.

Tie launch milestones to observable checks

Risk signal	Evidence to inspect	Response to test
Print washes away	Check actual ink-layer cure and technical sheet.	Hold batch, investigate and repeat approved validation before delivery.
Ink bleeds under stencil	Check stencil seal, fabric and deposit setup.	Correct screen/process and reproof.
Placement drifts	Compare jig and approved reference.	Reset alignment and segregate affected shirts.

Outstanding go / hold conditions

Exact ink, qualified process, cure/adhesion checks, size split and current prices remain pending.

Assign an owner, evidence reference and review date to each unresolved condition. Do not give every milestone a fixed calendar date when it depends on a crop, production, approval or competence cycle. Run only a suitable limited trial, reconcile accepted output and actual cash, and record whether the evidence supports holding, revising, proceeding within the limit or stopping.