The other shops have minimums because their workflow assumes wholesale-volume jobs. Set up the screen, run 100 shirts, break it down. A 1-shirt order is uneconomical for them, so they refuse it.
We've structured our shop differently. Screen press, vinyl plotter, and embroidery machine all in one space, all run by people who can switch between methods quickly.
Screen print. Single-shirt minimum. There's no setup cost we add to a 1-shirt order — the per-unit price is just higher because you're not getting volume pricing. A custom one-off shirt is $35-50 depending on the design. Twelve of the same design? About $18 each. Fifty? About $12.
"Single shirt or two hundred — we'll print it. The per-shirt price changes, the answer doesn't."
Vinyl. Single-shirt or single-name minimum. Sports teams getting names on the back, Mom-and-Dad t-shirts for a graduation, one-off custom gifts — vinyl is the answer.
Embroidery. Single-piece minimum. Polos, hats, jackets — one of each is fine. The hourly rate of the embroidery machine doesn't care about your batch size.
Bulk pricing for crews of 10+. This is where the real volume pricing kicks in — the 5+ pricing on a fleet account compounds with the bulk-print rate, and a 25-piece custom uniform job for a contractor crew lands meaningfully cheaper than a 25-piece order off a fleet account.
Stop by the custom printing counter with the design and the quantity. We'll quote it on the spot — no email-back-in-three-days routine.