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Custom print shopOrlando, FLTaking jobs

Your artwork.Our blanks.Priced by the batch.

We do not sell shirt designs. We sell blank garments, six ways of putting your artwork onto them, and a configurator that shows the price, the limits and the ship-by date while you are still deciding.

Worked example24 pieces
Blank
Classic Tee 180gsm, Bone
Method
Screen print, 2 colours, front
Band
24 – 47 pieces — 14% off
Per piece
$14.71USD
Screens
$50.00 once, per screen, per colour, per position
Order total
$403.04 USD
Next band
At 48 pieces the unit price is $13.51, which is $1.20 less per piece.
Ships in
8 to 10 business days after artwork approval

Calculated on our server from the published bands. Your own configuration is priced the same way, live, in the studio.

blank garments
38blank garmentsFive product lines, $9 to $49 each
print methods
6print methodsEvery limit published before you order
piece minimum
1piece minimumOn direct-to-garment, film transfer and vinyl
day ship commitment
30day ship commitmentOr we tell you and offer a refund
01

Three things we put in front of you, not behind a form

Most of what goes wrong with a print job is something the customer could not have known at the time they ordered. So we publish it.

Priced by the batch

Five quantity bands, published in full on the pricing page. The studio shows which band you are in, what the next one costs, and exactly how many pieces away it is. No band is unlocked by asking.

See the bands

Limits stated upfront

Minimum order, colour ceiling, maximum size and the wash test behind each method, on every method page. If your fabric rules a method out, the studio greys it out and tells you which physical property is the reason.

Read the limits

Checked before it prints

Every file is opened by a person before anything goes on press. Approved or rejected with a written reason. An automated check can flag a file for that person, but it never approves one.

How review works
02

The ladder is the product

Same blank, same method, same artwork. The only thing that changes is how many you order. Here is a Classic Tee with a two-colour front, at each band.

Full price table
  1. $17.10
    1 – 11List
    1 – 11 pieces: $17.10 USD per piece, List
  2. $15.73
    12 – 238% off
    12 – 23 pieces: $15.73 USD per piece, 8% off
  3. $14.71
    24 – 4714% off
    24 – 47 pieces: $14.71 USD per piece, 14% off, the band this example lands in
  4. $13.51
    48 – 9921% off
    48 – 99 pieces: $13.51 USD per piece, 21% off
  5. $12.14
    100 +29% off
    100 + pieces: $12.14 USD per piece, 29% off

How the bands work

A band is a quantity discount inside a single order. It is not a membership, a tier you subscribe to, or a balance you top up. There is nothing to join and nothing recurring on this site.

What sits outside the band

Screen charges, digitising and film setup are one-off charges per design, and they are shown separately so you can see what a repeat run of the same artwork would cost. Ground shipping is free from $250.00 USD.

Ordering 100 or more
03

Thirty-eight blanks, five lines

Weight in grams per square metre, fibre content, wash instructions and country of origin are on every product page, because they have to be.

Open the catalogue
04

What can go on what

This is the actual table the studio reads. Select any square to see whether that method runs on that fabric, and if not, which physical property stops it.

All six methods
Print method availability by fabric class. Filled cells are available, hollow cells are not. Select a cell to read the reason.
Method / fabricCotton knitCotton-rich blend knitTri-blend knitPolyester knitWoven shirtingCotton canvasStructured cap twillAcrylic rib knitBonded softshell
M1Screen
M2DTG
M3DTF
M4Embroidery
M5Heat
M6Sublimation
  • Available
  • Available, read the caveat
  • Not available
05

How a job runs

Five steps in the studio, then one person, then the press.

Open the studio
  1. 1Pick a blank

    Thirty-eight bodies. Weight, fibre, wash and country of origin on every one.

  2. 2Pick a method

    Six processes. Anything your fabric rules out is greyed out here, with the reason.

  3. 3Add your artwork

    Upload a file or set type. We check resolution, size and colour count as you go.

  4. 4Place it

    Drag it, or type coordinates. The printable area and its safety margin are drawn on the garment.

  5. 5Read the price

    Unit price, band, what the next band would cost, ship-by window. Before you commit.

After the studio

A person, then the press

Your file goes into a review queue. A reviewer opens it and checks it against the published rules. Approved jobs go to pre-press. Rejected jobs come back to you with a written reason, and if you do not want to change the artwork, the order is refunded in full. Nothing reaches the press with a status of pending.

Diagram of the artwork review workflow, showing a file entering review and either continuing to production or returning to the customer
A screen printing press with a blank shirt on the platen, lit by late afternoon light from a tall window

On the floor

One press, one platen, one shirt at a time

Nothing here is automated end to end. Screens are made for your artwork, pulled by hand, cured, and checked against the file you sent before the run is boxed. That is why the minimum on screen printing is twelve pieces, and why the lead time is measured in days rather than hours.

  • Pre-press

    Colour separation, screens made, film output, then scheduled onto a press.

  • On press

    Pulled, flashed and cured to the ink manufacturer's stated temperature.

  • Check and pack

    Compared against your file, counted against your size breakdown, boxed.

06

What we will not print

You own the rights to what you send us, or it is in the public domain. That is the deal, and you confirm it in writing before the order is created. Here is the short version of what gets rejected.

Full rules and review process
  • Rejected

    Registered trademarks and company logos

    A logo belongs to the company that owns it. Printing one without written permission from that company is trademark infringement, whether it is on one shirt or five hundred.

  • Rejected

    Team crests, league marks and school badges

    Professional clubs, leagues, universities and school districts all license their marks. Being a fan, a student, a parent or a local supporters' club does not carry a licence with it.

  • Rejected

    Cartoon, film, television and game characters

    Characters are protected by copyright, usually for decades. A redrawn, traced or stylised version of a protected character is still a derivative work and still infringes.

  • Rejected

    Names, faces and signatures of real people

    Musicians, actors, athletes and public figures hold rights over the commercial use of their name, image and signature. Those rights survive in many states after death.

  • Rejected

    Photographs, illustrations and fonts you did not license

    An image found through a search engine is not licensed to you. Nor is a font downloaded from a free site whose licence excludes commercial use. Both sit with their creator until a licence says otherwise.

  • Rejected

    Currency, identity documents and official emblems

    Reproducing banknotes, passports, licences, official seals and law enforcement badges is separately regulated and is refused regardless of how the artwork is styled.

  • Rejected

    Hate symbols, threats and adult content

    We refuse artwork that attacks people for who they are, threatens violence, or is sexually explicit. This is a judgement we make, and we make it conservatively.

  • Rejected

    A child's name together with a contact detail

    On garments sized for children twelve and under, we will not print a personal name alongside a phone number, address, email or social handle. A single first name, or a squad number, is fine.

If you own a copyright or trademark and believe something we printed infringes it, our copyright agent is named and reachable on the copyright and DMCA page, with a written notice and counter-notice procedure and a policy of terminating repeat infringers.

One folded blank tee beside a stack of the same tee, separated by a dashed line

Before you commit to a batch

Order one first, hold it, then decide

A proof piece is a single unit of exactly what you configured, run on the real press with the real ink. It costs the list unit price plus a $18.00 USD proof charge, and that charge comes off in full when you follow it with a batch of 12 or more of the same job.

This matters more here than in an ordinary shop. Printed goods made to your specification are not returnable simply because you changed your mind, so seeing one in your hand first is the cheapest insurance available. What is and is not returnable.

07

Six ways onto the garment

Minimum order, colour ceiling, maximum size and the laundering test behind the durability figure. Every one of them, on every method page.

Compare all six

Next step

Configure the job. The price follows you down the page.

Nothing is charged until you have seen the unit price, the band, the ship-by window and the two confirmations you have to make. If a method cannot run on the fabric you picked, you will know at step two, not after payment.