Screen printing for volume, direct-to-garment for short runs and full-color art. Company events, fundraisers, teams, staff shirts, and merch you actually intend to sell.
The method should follow the job. Here is the honest breakdown of which is right for what.
A screen is burned per color, then shirts run fast. Setup makes small runs uneconomical, but past about fifty pieces nothing beats it on price or durability.
Printed straight onto the shirt like a giant inkjet. No screen setup, so twelve shirts is viable and photographic full-color art costs no extra.
Player names, roster numbers, and one-off personalization. The right call when every piece in the order is different.
Water-based and discharge inks that sink into the fabric instead of sitting on top. For merch people choose to wear, not shirts they are handed.
Same printing, better margins if you are selling. Fleece, tanks, long sleeves, tote bags, and koozies all run through the same shop.
Sized breakdowns, folding and bagging, and pricing built so there is real margin left when you sell them. Common for breweries, gyms, churches, and nonprofits.
Branded apparel goes wrong in boring, predictable ways: the color is off, the logo looks fuzzy, or it shows up after the event. We are set up to prevent all three.
Nothing goes into production until you have seen the logo on the actual garment. That is what stops a 300-piece order arriving in the wrong thread colour, and it is the step most online suppliers skip entirely.
We digitize your logo for embroidery and keep the file on record. Every reorder for years afterward stitches out identical — no re-setup fee, no drift.
We share a building with Signarama Temecula. Booth graphics, banners, table throws, shirts, and giveaways can all come off one quote and one pickup.
Practically around twelve to twenty-four pieces, because the screen setup has to be worth it. Below that, DTG is almost always cheaper and looks just as good — we will steer you to whichever actually costs you less.
A one-color print on a basic tee commonly lands in the high single digits per shirt at moderate quantity, and drops from there as volume rises. More colors, premium garments, and multiple print locations move it up. Give us quantity and garment and you get a real number.
Vector files (AI, EPS, PDF) are best. High-resolution PNG at full print size works for DTG. If you only have a logo pulled off a website, we can usually rebuild it — flag it early rather than at deadline.
Not if it is cured correctly, which is most of the craft in screen printing. A properly cured print outlasts the shirt. Cracking is the signature of a shop that ran the dryer too fast.
Yes — that is heat transfer or vinyl work. Common for teams, tasting-room staff, and conference crews. Send us the roster in a spreadsheet and we handle the rest.
Send the details and we’ll come back with a real number — same business day. If it’s easier to talk it through, call the shop.