{"id":20,"date":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/how-to-read-a-tech-pack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:00:00","slug":"how-to-read-a-tech-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/how-to-read-a-tech-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read a tech pack before you request a quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-lead\">Most of the back-and-forth in a first quotation is not about price. It is about a missing spec. When a tech pack arrives without a size break or a fabric construction, the only honest answer is a range &#8211; and ranges are what buyers end up planning against.<\/p>\n<p>We review every incoming pack against the same checklist. It takes our pattern room about twenty minutes and it removes roughly two rounds of email from the sampling phase.<\/p>\n<h2>The six fields we check first<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Style number and a flat sketch or reference photo with front and back views.<\/li>\n<li>Fabric construction: composition, GSM, weave or knit structure, and finish.<\/li>\n<li>Size range plus the size break &#8211; the quantity split per size, not just the range.<\/li>\n<li>Colourways and the quantity per colour; lab-dip approval responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>Trim list with nominated suppliers, including labels, packaging and hangtags.<\/li>\n<li>Target incoterm and the required ship date, not just the order date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The three that move the number<\/h2>\n<p>Fabric consumption changes with the size break. A run weighted toward XL uses more cloth per piece than a run weighted toward S, and on a 5,000-piece order that difference is material. Second, nominated trims with a long lead time push the production slot. Third, a requested ship date that lands inside Chinese New Year or Golden Week needs the fabric booked several weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tech pack is not paperwork. It is the contract between what the designer imagined and what the cutting table can actually produce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What we send back<\/h2>\n<p>Within one business day you get a costed proposal, a written spec with any assumptions flagged, and a sampling plan with dates for proto, fit and seal samples. If something in your pack is ambiguous, we ask before costing rather than quietly choosing for you.<\/p>\n<p>No list prices are published on this site for exactly this reason: the number belongs to your specification, not to a catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A costing is only as good as the spec behind it. Here are the six fields we check first &#8211; and the three that most often change the number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16,17,15],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-costing","tag-development","tag-tech-pack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}