DTF Printing
Full-color custom apparel. Any fabric. No minimums.
Direct-to-Film puts bold, photographic designs on shirts, hoodies and bags — brilliant on light or dark fabric, soft enough to forget it’s there, and built to hold up wash after wash. Pick a size, upload your artwork and pay, all on this page. No quote to wait for.
Standard turnaround is 2–3 business days from the point we have your artwork and payment — plus transit time if you’re having it shipped. Collect from the workshop free, or ship for $5.00 flat. Need it today? Same-day rush is available.
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No setup fees · No hidden costsYou’re charged by the area of your artwork — its bounding box, meaning the smallest rectangle the design fits inside — times how many you need. Larger orders drop into cheaper rates automatically. Nothing is added for extra colors, gradients or photographs.
Why handling? Every order is set up, powdered, cured and packed once, and every transfer in it is cut and sorted by hand — so the charge is split the same way: a flat $1.99 per order, plus a per-piece cut & sort rate that drops as the run gets longer. Ten identical logos are one film pass and a couple of minutes with a blade, and they're priced like it. On a gang sheet you do the cutting, so there's no handling at all.
Have a lower local quote? Send it over with your artwork and we'll beat it. Same-day pickup in Greenville, no shipping wait.
Prices are calculated from your artwork’s bounding box — the smallest rectangle that contains the design — not the sheet it prints on. Final artwork is reviewed before printing; if anything needs prep we’ll get in touch before you’re charged for a reprint.
What is DTF?
Your design, pressed onto the fabric.
DTF stands for Direct-to-Film. Your artwork is printed onto a special film in full color — including a white layer that makes it pop on dark garments — then heat-pressed onto the garment with a flexible adhesive layer. It sits on the surface, closer to a screen print than to a dye, but it flexes with the fabric instead of sitting on top like a stiff patch: vivid, detailed, and soft enough to forget it’s there.
Because there are no screens to make and nothing to pretreat, there’s no setup cost and no minimum. That’s what makes it perfect for one-off custom pieces, small-batch merch, and full-color designs that would be a nightmare to cut and weed in vinyl.
What it does
Full color, photo detail
Gradients, photographs, unlimited colors — printed in a single pass. No per-color charge, no simplifying your artwork.
Any fabric, light or dark
Cotton, polyester, blends, denim, canvas, nylon. A white ink underbase means designs stay bright and opaque even on black.
No minimums, ever
One shirt or one hundred. There are no screens to burn and no setup fee, so a single custom piece makes perfect sense.
Soft and flexible
The print flexes with the fabric instead of sitting on top like a stiff patch. Best on placement prints — chest, sleeve, pocket, back.
Built to last
Properly pressed and cared for, expect 50+ wash cycles. The bond stretches with the garment, so it resists the cracking older vinyl shows.
No weeding, no layering
Intricate, multi-color art that would be hours of vinyl weeding prints as one clean transfer — every detail intact.
Why DTF
No screens, no setup cost, no color-count limit — so small runs and one-offs actually pencil out.
Full-color photographic art in one transfer. No cutting, no weeding, no stacking colors by hand.
No pretreatment, and it isn’t limited to cotton — polyester and performance blends are no problem.
Prints on cotton and on dark garments, not just white polyester. One process covers far more of your closet.
DTF is for fabric and apparel. Working on something else? Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll point you at the right process — get in touch.
Made for
- Custom t-shirts & hoodies
- Small-batch merch
- Team & league gear
- Workwear & uniforms
- Tote bags & aprons
- Hats & caps
- Personalized gifts
- Event & promo runs
Good to know
Can you do just one?
Absolutely. There are no setup fees and no minimum quantity, so a single custom piece is completely welcome — a small one-off starts around $3.03.
How is the price worked out?
Two parts. First, printing: the area of your artwork's bounding box — the smallest rectangle the design fits inside — times the per-square-inch rate, with bigger total orders dropping into cheaper rates. We price on the bounding box because it's the fairest measure: it's something you can see and check yourself, and it doesn't change with how we lay out the sheet. Second, handling: $1.99 per order for setup, curing and packing, plus a per-piece cut-and-sort charge that drops as the quantity goes up — from $0.50 each down to $0.35 on larger runs.
Found a lower quote somewhere else?
Send it over with your artwork and we'll beat it. Our per-inch rates already track what the market charges, and you skip the shipping wait — collect from the workshop the same day.
What exactly is a gang sheet?
One large sheet packed with as many of your designs as will fit, which you then cut apart yourself. It uses the same per-inch rates as everything else — what you save is the handling, all of it, because you're doing that work instead of us. If you're ordering in bulk and don't mind a pair of scissors, it's far and away the best value.
How long does it take?
Standard turnaround is 2–3 business days from the point we have your artwork and payment. If you're having it shipped, add transit time on top of that — the turnaround is our production time, not delivery. Local pickup is ready as soon as it's done and we'll let you know.
Can I really get it the same day?
Usually yes, and it's the main reason to use a local shop instead of mailing off to an online supplier. Same-day adds 40% to the order. Get your artwork to us early in the day — we'll confirm as soon as your order comes in.
What can you print on?
Nearly any fabric — cotton, polyester, blends, denim, canvas, nylon — in any color, light or dark, plus tote bags, hoodies, hats, and workwear. DTF is for textiles; it isn’t the right process for mugs, tumblers, wood or other hard goods.
Will it crack or peel?
Applied properly, no. The print flexes with the fabric instead of cracking like old-school vinyl or heavy ink. Expect 50+ washes with normal care — wash inside-out in cold water and skip high-heat drying to get the longest life.
Can you match my brand colors?
We can get very close and we’ll proof critical colors before a full run. Honest caveat: DTF prints in CMYK, which can’t perfectly reproduce every neon or ultra-saturated Pantone the way a mixed spot ink can — so for brand-critical work we confirm a swatch with you first.
How’s the feel?
Soft and flexible for typical logo and graphic sizes. Very large solid fills feel more like a film layer, so for those we’ll help you size the art or suggest an alternative.
What happens to my artwork?
We review every file before it goes on the press. If something needs prep — low resolution, a missing transparent background, a design that won’t sit right at the size you picked — we get in touch before printing, not after. Your files are only ever used for your order.