Richardson 112 vs Yupoong 6606 for Print on Demand

Search Richardson 112 vs Yupoong 6606 and every result compares them as wholesale blanks for embroidery — case pricing, decoration minimums, 90 colours versus 30. None of it applies if you sell one hat at a time through a print-on-demand supplier, where you cannot buy a case and the only number that matters is what one finished cap costs you.

So here is the comparison nobody publishes: both caps priced per printed unit across the suppliers that actually carry them.

Supplier	Richardson 112	Yupoong 6606
Printful	$18.25	$13.56
Printify	$19.89	$18.38
Gelato	$16.89	—

Quick verdict

Take the Yupoong 6606 if you fulfil at Printful. At $13.56 it is $4.69 cheaper than the 112 from the same supplier, and on a $28 hat that gap is most of your margin.

Take the Richardson 112 if you fulfil at Gelato, which is the only supplier of the three that carries it cheaply at $16.89 — and the only one that carries it without the 6606 as an alternative.

The 112 is the more recognised cap and the one your customers may name. The 6606 is the cheaper one at every supplier stocking both. That is the whole decision.

POD coverage is thinner than wholesale makes it look

The wholesale guides talk about these caps as though both are universally available. In print-on-demand they are not.

We hold verified prices for the Richardson 112 from three suppliers and the Yupoong 6606 from two. Only Printful and Printify carry both. If your store already fulfils somewhere else — Gooten, CustomCat, Teelaunch — neither cap is available to you at all, and that is worth checking before you design a hat line around one.

Compare that with apparel, where a Gildan 18000 is carried by nine suppliers. Headwear is a much thinner market in POD, and thin coverage means little price competition. It is why a $6 blank costs $13 to $20 as a finished unit.

Where the price actually lands

At Printful the 6606 is $13.56 against the 112’s $18.25 — a $4.69 gap, or 35%. At Printify the two converge: $18.38 against $19.89, only $1.51 apart.

That convergence is worth noticing. If you are on Printify, the price argument for the 6606 nearly disappears and you may as well take the cap with the better-known name and the wider colour range. If you are on Printful, the 6606 saves you real money on every unit.

Gelato is the cheapest place to buy a 112 at $16.89 — below what Printful charges for it, and below what Printify charges for either cap. If the Richardson is the one you want, Gelato is where to get it.

What actually differs about the caps

Both are five-panel mid-profile trucker caps with a mesh back and a snapback closure. The differences are real but smaller than the price gap.

The Richardson 112 is 60% cotton / 40% polyester in the front panels, structured and stiff out of the box, with a slightly flatter curved visor. It holds its shape hard, which is why it is the default for team and corporate headwear, and it comes in far more colours at wholesale — though POD suppliers stock only a fraction of them.

The Yupoong 6606 is 65% polyester / 35% cotton, softer and more relaxed from the first wear, with a marginally higher crown. It reads more lifestyle than uniform, which is why streetwear and music merch tends toward it.

For a printed graphic rather than embroidery, the structured front of the 112 gives a slightly flatter surface to work with. For a soft, worn-in look, the 6606 gets there without a break-in period.

The honest problem with POD hats

A trucker cap that costs $6 to $8 wholesale costs $13.56 to $19.89 as a printed unit here. That is the price of buying one at a time with decoration included, and it is unavoidable — but it changes what you can charge.

At $13.56 from Printful you can list a 6606 at $26 to $28 and keep a workable margin. At $19.89 for a 112 from Printify, you need $34 or more to make the same money, and a $34 trucker hat is a harder sell than a $34 hoodie.

If hats are a serious part of your plan rather than an add-on, the supplier decision comes first and the cap decision second. Our supplier directory lists what each one stocks and what they charge.

Where these sit in the POD hat market

We hold verified prices for six trucker caps carried by two or more suppliers. Ranked by cheapest verified price:

Cap	Cheapest verified	Suppliers
Otto Cap 39-165	$12.80	2
Yupoong 6606	$13.56	2
Yupoong 6006	$14.85	3
Flexfit 6511	$16.24	2
Richardson 112	$16.89	3
Otto Cap 105-1247	$18.41	2

The 6606 sits second-cheapest and the 112 second-dearest, in a category whose entire range is $5.61 wide. That narrowness is the real story: no trucker cap in print-on-demand is cheap, and the choice between the best-known cap and the cheapest one costs about four dollars.

It also means the Richardson premium is not a premium for the cap so much as for the name. The Flexfit 6511 at $16.24 is a structurally similar mid-profile trucker sitting 65 cents below it.

What you can actually charge

Take the Printful prices and a $28 listing, roughly the ceiling for a printed trucker cap outside an established brand. On Etsy’s fee structure — about 9.5% plus a fixed charge — a $28 sale carries roughly $3.11 in fees.

• Yupoong 6606 at $13.56 leaves about $11.33 a unit
• Richardson 112 at $18.25 leaves about $6.64 a unit

That is a 41% difference in profit on the same sale price, from a $4.69 difference in blank cost. Run the same maths on your own numbers with our profit calculator, which prices every supplier that carries the cap.

Push the listing to $34 and the 112 becomes workable at about $11.87 — but $34 is a real barrier for a hat, and it is worth testing before you build a line on it.

Bottom line

On Printful, take the 6606 and save $4.69 a unit. On Printify the two are $1.51 apart and the Richardson name is worth the difference. On Gelato, the 112 at $16.89 is the best price either cap reaches at any supplier that stocks it.

Check which supplier you are already fulfilling with before you choose the cap — see current prices for the Richardson 112 and the Yupoong 6606, or browse everything we price in our product catalogue.

Prices are the cost of one printed unit, pulled from each supplier’s own API. See how we source prices.