We'll print on garments you bring in. About 20% of our custom jobs are customer-supplied shirts. Here's the honest version of how it works.
When it works. New, unwashed garments still in original packaging. Cotton or cotton-poly blends. Standard colors. You bringing 30 of the same shirt for a team or event. We'll print on them like they came from us.
When it gets dicey. Pre-worn shirts. Garments that have been through industrial wash. 100% polyester athletic shirts (these need a different ink and we'll tell you up front). Tri-blend fabrics (the print can ghost). Anything with a glossy or treated surface — windbreakers, some performance fabrics — the ink may not adhere correctly.
When we say no. Anything that looks like it may damage our equipment or where we can't guarantee the print. Wet or musty shirts. Shirts with holes or pre-existing damage where the print quality will be the customer's complaint and not the equipment's fault.
Pricing. We charge per print, not per shirt. Bringing your own saves you the cost of the blank but doesn't save the print. Some customers find that the blank we'd order is roughly the same cost as the one they bought retail — bringing your own is usually a wash on cost.
What we won't do. Replace a shirt we ruin if you brought it. We're careful and our scrap rate on customer-supplied is under 2%, but if a screen press misregisters on your special shirt, we eat the print, you don't get a replacement shirt. That's the trade you accept by bringing your own.
Stop by the custom printing counter with the shirts and the artwork. We'll tell you yes or no in 60 seconds.