Decoration method
Screen Printing
104 products — The default for apparel at volume, and the cheapest per unit once the screens are made.
- Best for
- Flat, solid-color artwork on fabric — one to four colors.
- Where it falls down
- Priced per color per location, so a six-color logo gets expensive fast. Photographs do not screen-print well.
- How it is priced
- One-time screen charge, then a low per-piece rate that keeps falling with quantity.
Everything we decorate with Screen Printing
Screen Print 11 x 17 Rally Towel from $1.21 each 
Screen Print 14 x 18 Mesh Top Drawstring Backpack from $2.43 each 
Screen Print 16 Inch Inflatable Basketball Beach Ball from $1.50 each 
Screen Print 16 Inch Inflatable Soccer Beach Ball from $1.50 each 
Screen Print 17 in Anti-Theft Laptop Backpack from $28.58 each 
Screen Print 600D RPET Laptop Backpack from $24.93 each 
Screen Print Athletic Tank Top from $10.56 each 
Screen Print Auto Trash Can from $3.25 each 
Screen Print Auto-Open Umbrella 48 Inch from $37.93 each 
Screen Print Baby Bib from $7.23 each 
Screen Print Bamboo Travel Mug from $12.08 each 
Screen Print Bomber Jacket from $26.72 each Buying notes
What to know about Screen Printing
A screen is fine mesh stretched on a frame, blocked out everywhere your artwork is not. Ink gets pushed through what is left — one screen per color, one pass per color. That is the whole economy of the method: the screens cost the same whether you print forty shirts or four hundred, so the per-piece price falls hard as quantity climbs, and the setup is what you are really deciding about.
Send vector art if you have it: .ai, .eps or a layered .pdf. If all you have is a JPEG of your logo we can usually rebuild it, and that is worth doing once rather than living with soft edges on every reorder.
The mistake we see most often is picking the garment color first and the ink second. Light ink on a dark shirt needs an underbase — a white layer printed first so the color reads — and that underbase counts as a color. A two-color design on black is really three. Decide the shirt and the art together and you can often drop a screen.
Production runs 7–10 business days after you approve the proof. We source the garments ourselves; we do not print on blanks you supply.
Other decoration methods
- Embroidery (49)
- DTG Print (10)
- Full-Color Print (135)
- Sublimation (27)
- Laser Engrave (66)
- Pad Print (54)
- Deboss (10)
Answers before you order
- Decoration Methods Compared: Print, Embroidery, Engraving, Sublimation
- Promotional Product Minimum Orders Explained
- How Long Custom Orders Take: Realistic Production Timelines
- What a Proof Is and Why You Should Never Skip It
- Setup Fees, Run Charges and the Rest of the Invoice
- What Custom Promotional Products Actually Cost
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Send the artwork and the quantity and we will tell you whether this is the right method for it — or which one would hold your logo better. That conversation is free and it is the one that saves money.
Send this and we can quote
- Quantity, and whether it can flex
- Your logo — vector if you have it
- Number of colors and where it goes
- In-hands date and ship-to address
No setup over $500 · Free proof · Nationwide