For bands & musicians
Custom t-shirts for bands and musicians, printed on site.
Band merch is a set of small uneven jobs, not one big order: a shirt for each date on the run, a reprint in the one size that sold out at the second show, and whatever is left going to the online store when the tour ends. Most printers lose interest at that size, and the charge per colour per design is what turns eight city shirts into a bill nobody wants.
What gets in the way
One design per city, and a poster instead of a print file.
Eight dates means eight designs, and screen printing sets up eight times.
Every colour of every design is its own screen and its own setup charge. We print DTG, DTF and all-over, so a four-colour tour design costs the same to set up as a one-colour one, and the next city does not add a setup fee on top.
Nobody knows which size will sell out until the merch table closes.
XS to 3XL run on the same blank, and each garment is printed and packed as it is ordered. A reprint of twelve mediums is its own small job, not a reason to buy a hundred and store them.
The artist sends a poster, not a print file.
Poster artwork is built to be read at arm's length, with thin lines and small type. We check the resolution and the print size before anything reaches fabric, and tell you in plain words which parts will not hold at that size.
How we handle it
From the tour file to the merchandise table.
All-over printing for back prints and wraps
Artwork that runs off the chest — a full back print, a sleeve, a wrap — goes through all-over printing. Send one file per panel with the panel outline on its own layer, and we line the print up against the cut line.
One blank across the whole run
Heavyweight 240GSM+ tees in XS to 3XL, cut and sewn on our own floor. Keeping to one blank from the first date to the reprint is what makes a merch table look like one band instead of a pile of near-misses.
Packed by design, then by size
Each shirt is folded, bagged and labelled with the design and the size, so the case opens into stacks the merch seller can put straight on the table.
The tour file stays on record
Artwork is filed against the style and the colourway. The shirts printed after the tour, for the online store, come off the same file the band approved — nobody has to chase the artist for it again.
Before you order
One line per design in the run.
Each design needs its own quantity and size split, so a list works better for us than a paragraph. Send the tour file as it stands — if the artist is still finishing the next city, that one can follow and be filed against the same style.
- 01Each design at final print size, one file per placement (front, back, sleeve)
- 02For all-over print: one file per panel, with the panel outline on its own layer
- 03The designs in the run, each with its own quantity and size split
- 04The date the first shirts are needed for, so we can say plainly what is realistic before anything is committed
- 05Your logo or neck label artwork if the band wants its own labelling
You are buying from the people who make it.
Not a trading desk. Our own machines, our own team — which is why a reorder matches the first run.
Printing, cutting and sewing in the same building.
Cut in-house, on our own table.
Hung, trimmed and checked at numbered stations on the floor.
Our own stock, held on the same floor.
Next step
Start with one design from the run.
One shirt tells you what the blank weighs and how the print sits under a stage light — which is more useful than choosing the whole run off a screen.