Automatic carousel screen printing press running a production run
Custom screen printing

Screen print shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts

Screen print shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts, built online and priced in front of you. Order one piece or five hundred, same process either way.

$7.80a one-color tee at 48 pieces, garment and setup includedSee the full price ladder

No obligation, no payment to see a price, and no form standing in the way.

The method that fits the jobScreen, DTF or digital, whichever your count and your artwork call for.
You approve a proofNothing gets burned to a screen until you say go.
Reprint or refundIf the print comes out wrong, we run it again.
About 14 daysStandard turnaround, printed and shipped.

Three ways to get your shirts printed

Pick the one that matches how much of this you want to handle yourself.

Path one

Build the print

Load your art, pick your ink colors and your garment, and watch what each choice does to the per-piece number before you commit to any of it.

Price my print run
Path two

Get it hand-priced

Past 48 pieces the maths changes enough to be worth a person. Send the art and the count and we will come back with a hand-built number.

Get my bulk price
Path three

Ask which method

Supplying your own blanks, printing on something unusual, or not sure whether screen is even the right method. Those are conversations, not calculations.

Ask a human

Build the print and watch the price move

The studio is running live below. Pick a garment, load your art, choose how many colors and where they go, and the per-piece price updates as you go.

Color count and quantity are the two levers that move the number most. Pull both and see what happens before you decide anything.

What we print most

Screen print shirts, a screen printed hoodie or screen printed hats. These three cover most of what leaves here.

Best valueMan wearing a custom screen printed logo tee in the mountains

Custom screen print tees

The workhorse. Event shirts, band merch, staff tees, giveaways. Gildan 5000 if the count matters more than the feel, Bella and Canvas if it is the other way around.

One color, 48 pieces, from $7.80 each
Price a printed tee
Most asked forPerson wearing a custom hoodie at sunset

Screen printed hoodie and crews

The piece people keep. Heavier garment, so the ink sits differently and a big front print really lands.

Three colors, 48 pieces, from $23.62 each
Price a printed hoodie
Softest handMusician on stage wearing a custom screen printed band t-shirt

Comfort Colors and premium tees

Garment dyed, heavier cotton, and the tee people actually buy at a merch table. Costs more per piece and sells for more too.

Three colors, 48 pieces, from $16.83 each
Price a Comfort Colors tee

What screen printing actually costs

Real per-piece numbers from the engine the studio quotes from. This is what t shirt screen printing costs on a one front print, dark garment, setup already included.

The jump between 24 and 48 is where screen printing starts to make sense. Below that the setup is spread too thin and DTF usually wins, which the studio will pick for you automatically.

Quantity Gildan 5000, 1 color Bella+Canvas 3001, 1 color Bella+Canvas 3001, 3 colors Comfort Colors 1717, 3 colors
12 pieces $13.11 $16.85 $17.13 $22.37
24 pieces $9.83 $13.23 $15.05 $19.81
48 pieces $7.80 $10.86 $12.55 $16.83
144 pieces $6.02 $8.74 $9.48 $13.29
288 pieces $5.47 $8.10 $8.68 $12.37

Per piece, garment and printing and setup all in. Dark garments carry an underbase, which is why a three-color design on black costs more than three colors on white. Build yours in the studio for the exact number.

What decides whether a print looks good

Three things, and the garment is not one of them.

Color count is the price, not the design

Every color in your artwork is a separate screen, a separate pass and a separate setup. That is why a two-color design at 100 pieces can cost meaningfully less than a five-color one that looks almost the same from six feet away.

On a dark garment there is one more screen you did not draw, the white underbase that stops the shirt color dulling everything on top of it. It is not optional and it is why the same design costs more on black than on white.

Screen printer burning a screen in the exposure unit during pre press setup

Art resolution is the thing that stalls orders

The single most common delay is a file that cannot be printed. A logo saved off a website at 400 pixels looks fine on your screen and falls apart the moment it is blown up to eleven inches wide.

Send vector if you have it. If you do not, send the biggest transparent PNG you can find and we will tell you honestly whether it holds up, before anyone sets a screen.

Close up of a screen printed graphic showing ink detail and coverage on cotton

The garment changes the print more than the ink does

A 100 percent cotton tee takes ink cleanly and predictably. A 50/50 blend can pull dye out of the fabric under a hot cure and shift your white toward pink, which is a real thing that happens on cheap red garments.

This is why we ask what the shirts are for. A giveaway tee and a tee somebody is going to buy at a merch table are different jobs, and the right blank is different for each.

Screen printing press station with a burned screen loaded for a custom print run

Why not just use a big online printer?

On a single simple order they are fine and often cheaper. No argument.

The difference shows up on the things a template cannot decide for you. Whether your four-color design should really be two. Whether the red garment you picked will pull dye into the white ink under cure. Whether DTF beats screen at your count. Those are judgement calls, and a portal makes none of them. It just prints what you uploaded and ships it.

Screen printing press station with a burned screen loaded for a print run

How a print run works

Five steps, and only two of them are yours.

  1. 1

    Send the art

    Vector, or the largest transparent PNG you have.

  2. 2

    Pick the garment

    The studio prices each one live as you switch.

  3. 3

    Approve the mockup

    A real person checks it before anything is burned.

  4. 4

    We print

    Screen or DTF, whichever suits the count and the artwork.

  5. 5

    It ships

    Checked, packed and out, in about 14 days.

Not sure if screen printing is the right call?

Tell us the artwork, the garment and the count. We will tell you whether screen, DTF or DTG is the honest answer, even when it is not the one we would rather sell.

Printed work that has gone out

Screen printed apparel that has actually shipped, not mockups.

Brewery staff wearing custom screen printed shirts
Musician on stage in a custom screen printed band tee
Band merch table selling custom screen printed shirts
Barista in a custom screen printed coffee shop shirt
Construction worker in a custom printed work shirt
Man wearing a custom screen printed logo tee
Custom screen printed band tee artwork
Close up of screen printed ink detail on cotton

Screen printing questions

How many colors can I screen print on shirts?

Up to six. Each color is its own screen and its own pass, which is why a one-color print is meaningfully cheaper than a four-color one at the same quantity. On a dark garment we add an underbase, which counts as a screen too. The studio prices all of that as you pick colors, so you never have to guess.

What is the setup fee?

Twenty five dollars per screen, and it is already inside the per-piece price you see. It is not added at the end. Spread across 144 shirts a single screen works out to about eighteen cents a shirt, which is why screen printing gets cheap fast as the count climbs.

Is screen printing better than DTF?

For anything over about two dozen pieces with a limited number of colors, yes. It lays down more ink, it feels better on the shirt and it survives the wash longer. Below that count, or for a photograph or a heavy gradient, DTF wins. The studio picks whichever comes out cheaper for what you have built and tells you which one it chose.

Can I print on the back and the sleeve too?

Yes. Each extra placement is its own set of screens, so it adds to the per-piece price. Add one in the studio and watch what it does to the number before you commit.

Can you print on my own blanks?

Send it through the bulk pricing door and tell us what you are supplying. Bringing your own garments changes the maths enough that it needs a person rather than the calculator.

Do I see the print before you run it?

Always. Somebody reviews your artwork and you approve a mockup before a single screen gets burned. If the print comes out wrong after you have approved it, we run it again or refund you. No argument.

Olive Branch Apparel

Screen printing, plus DTF and DTG when the count or the artwork calls for it. Blanks sourced nationwide, shipped anywhere.

See the work

Design it yourself

Load the art, pick your colors, watch the per-piece number move.

Open the design studio

Talk to a person

Own blanks, odd substrates, or a method question worth a real answer.

Get in touch

Build the print and see the number

A couple of minutes in the studio and you will know exactly what your run costs.