SCREENPRINTING

Screen Printing Services at Imperial Custom Apparel: Where Quality Meets Creativity

Welcome to Imperial Custom Apparel, your premier destination for exceptional screen printing services. Nestled in the sunny heart of South Florida, we extend our specialized screen printing offerings to clients all across the United States. Whether it's shirts, sweatshirts, or a diverse range of apparel, our screen printing process ensures high quality, vibrant, and long lasting results.

The Benefits of Screen Printing Screen printing is a tried and true method for producing brilliant, durable designs on a wide array of garments. Here’s why it's a great choice for your custom apparel needs:

1. Durability: Screen printing inks bond deeply with fabric, creating a print that is robust and long lasting. Perfect for garments that will be washed and worn repeatedly.

2. Vibrant Colors: This technique is renowned for delivering bright, vivid colors that stand out. Even after multiple washes, the colors remain striking and lively.

3. Cost Effectiveness for Bulk Orders: Ideal for large orders, screen printing becomes more cost effective as the quantity increases, making it a great choice for large events, organizations, or promotional campaigns.

4. Versatility: Our screen printing services can be applied to a variety of materials and garment types, providing flexibility for all your custom apparel needs.

5. High Quality and Consistency: With screen printing, each garment is printed with the same level of high quality and consistency, ensuring a uniform look for all items in a batch.

Our Process: From South Florida to You At Imperial Custom Apparel, we take pride in managing the entire screen printing process within our South Florida facility. From the initial design to the final print, our skilled team ensures each step is carried out with precision and care, guaranteeing the highest quality for your custom apparel.

Nationwide Service with a Local Touch While our roots are in South Florida, our services reach across the nation. We believe in bringing our local craftsmanship and superior quality to clients everywhere, backed by reliable shipping and personalized customer service.

Start Your Screen Printing Journey with Us Ready to bring your custom apparel ideas to life with vibrant, durable screen printing? Reach out to Imperial Custom Apparel today. Let us be your partner in creating high quality, memorable garments that truly stand out.

What screen printing actually is

Screen printing pushes ink through a fine mesh screen onto the garment. Each color in your artwork gets its own screen, held in the mesh as a stencil, and ink is pressed through one layer at a time. Setup happens once per color, after which every pass is fast and identical, which is why the method still owns large orders.

Because the ink is laid down as a layer rather than sprayed in, screen printed color sits bright and opaque even on dark garments. The trade is that every color adds a screen, so the economics reward simple artwork and higher quantity. Pricing is quoted per project and the cost per piece falls as quantity rises. We run everything in house in Hollywood, Florida for businesses across Miami and South Florida.

Garments and fabrics that suit screen printing

Screen printing wants a flat, stable print area and a fabric that can take curing heat.

• Cotton tees: the natural home of the method. Gildan, Bella+Canvas, Comfort Colors and Shaka Wear blanks all print cleanly, and heavier cotton gives the ink a smooth bed to sit on.
• Hoodies, crewnecks, totes and aprons: fleece carries a bold chest print well, and flat canvas panels are the easiest surface in the shop.
• Hi vis and safety shirts: a one or two color company mark on a safety garment is a classic screen print job, as in our guide to branded workwear for construction and trades.

The print area matters more than the garment. Flat panels are ideal, while a seam, a zipper, a pocket or a sharp curve running through the design fights the screen. Standard sizes are front 12 by 16 inches, back 12 by 16 inches, left chest 5 by 5 inches and top back 12 by 4 inches, set out on our print placements page.

When screen printing is the wrong choice

• Small quantities. Setup is charged once per color whether you order ten pieces or a thousand, so at low counts it swamps the order. Small runs belong on our direct to garment printing in Miami, which needs no screens at all.
• Full color and photographic artwork. Gradients, soft shadows and photographs ask for more colors than screen printing can sensibly carry, and print better digitally. More in why we print DTG.
• Soft hand feel above all else. A screen print is ink sitting on the fabric, so a large solid print can be felt. Where it has to disappear into the shirt, our water based DTG ink stays soft and does not crack or peel.
• Performance fabrics and structured items. Polyester knits and athletic fabric are better served by DTF transfers, and a cap panel is not flat, which makes hats an embroidery job. See our custom embroidery service.

Who screen printing is for

Screen printing suits the South Florida buyer who already knows what the artwork is and needs a lot of it. Event organizers handing out festival shirts, breweries running a merch line, schools ordering bulk spirit wear, and construction, landscaping and logistics companies putting one simple mark on crew shirts. It also suits companies reordering the same garment, because once the screens are proven the next run matches the last. If the order is large and the design is clean, start at our bulk and corporate apparel orders page.

Screen printing compared with the other methods we offer

• Screen printing. Best at higher volume on designs with few flat colors, and hard to beat for opaque color on dark cotton.
• Direct to garment printing. Best for full color artwork, photographic detail and small runs, with no screens and no per color charge.
• DTF transfers. Best for polyester blends and performance fabrics that will not take DTG ink well.
• Custom embroidery. Best for hats, polos, bags, jackets, aprons and beanies, where thread reads as more permanent than ink.
• Bling and rhinestone work. Best when the garment is meant to catch the light, for fashion pieces rather than daily uniforms.

File requirements for any of them are in the design guide.

Screen printing questions we get asked

How much does screen printing cost?

Screen printing is quoted per project, and the cost per piece falls as the quantity rises. Two things drive the number: how many colors are in the artwork, because each needs its own screen, and how many pieces you are printing, because setup is spread across all of them.

Is there a minimum order for screen printing?

There is no minimum order at Imperial Custom Apparel, screen printing included. The honest answer is that very small screen printed runs rarely make sense, because the per color setup is the same whatever the count, so we will often point you to direct to garment printing instead.

Is screen printing better than DTG?

Neither is better, they win in different places. Screen printing wins on high quantity, on opaque flat color and on bold prints over dark cotton, while direct to garment printing wins on full color artwork, on small runs and on a softer hand feel.

Does screen printing crack or peel?

A properly cured screen print holds up through repeated washing and wearing, which is why the method has lasted. The ink bonds to the fabric with heat rather than sitting loose on the surface, and washing inside out in cold water keeps any decorated garment looking newer.

Start your screen printing order

Imperial Custom Apparel prints in house in Hollywood, Florida for businesses across Miami and South Florida, and we ship nationwide. There is no minimum order, volume pricing applies as counts rise, and our facility is open by appointment. Call or text (954) 280 0627 or email info@imperialcustomapparel.com.