#printing

Screen-printing maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the ink-usage and cost numbers an apparel printer or print shop quotes a job by. It all turns on “ink mileage”, the printed area a unit of ink covers — in² per pound, with plastisol commonly 12,000–18,000 depending on mesh and deposit. The ink endpoint sizes a run: ink = (print area × prints) ÷ mileage, so a 100 in² design printed 150 times at 15,000 in²/lb takes exactly one pound (454 g, about 3 g a print); pass the design as area or as width × height. The prints endpoint runs it in reverse — how many shirts a tub of ink will do: prints = (ink weight × mileage) ÷ print area, so a pound of plastisol covers 15,000 in², roughly 150 prints of that design before waste, and it takes pounds, kilograms or grams. The cost endpoint puts a price on it: ink pounds × price per pound gives the run’s ink cost and the per-print figure, usually just a few cents — ink only, before screens, garments and labour. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for screen-printing, apparel-decoration, print-shop and merch app developers, quoting and job-costing tools, and production-planning software. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints. Ink only; add screens, garments and labour for a full quote.

api.oanor.com/screenprint-api

Paper-weight maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically. The convert endpoint converts between grammage (GSM, grams per square metre — the universal measure) and the US basis weight in pounds, which depends on the paper stock type: bond/writing (basis 17×22 in), text/book/offset (25×38), cover (20×26), index (25.5×30.5), tag (24×36) and bristol (22.5×28.5). The weight endpoint computes the mass of a single sheet, a 500-sheet ream and the M-weight (the weight of 1000 sheets in pounds) at a given grammage and sheet size — accepting dimensions in millimetres, centimetres, inches or metres, or a named size (A3–A5, letter, legal, tabloid). The stocks endpoint is a reference of the US stock types with their conversion factors and basis sizes. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for printing and publishing tools, stationery and packaging apps, print-shop estimators, and shipping-weight calculators. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This is paper grammage and basis weight; for general mass-unit conversion use a unit-conversion API.

api.oanor.com/paper-api