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Custom apparel in Mississauga
Custom apparel in Mississauga divides neatly between hospitality and trades, and they want opposite things. Restaurants and cafés along Lakeshore in Port Credit and Queen Street in Streetsville order small — six to twenty pieces, front of house, replaced as staff turn over. Trades and warehouses order in blocks of fifty and want the same garment available again in eight months when the crew changes.
For the small orders, DTF is the answer and there is no minimum. One shirt for a new hire is a real order at the price of one shirt, not a favour with a setup fee attached. It prints full colour, handles photographs and gradients, works on dark garments without a separate underbase, and covers a full front or back up to 13 by 19 inches. It is also the right choice when the design changes between pieces — names on a team set, for example.
Screen printing takes over on volume. Our minimum is 24 pieces per design, up to six spot colours, plastisol as standard for opacity on dark garments. Each colour needs its own screen, so the setup costs once and then almost nothing per piece — the more you order the better it gets. Below 24, DTF is cheaper and we will say so rather than take the screen fee. Garments come from Gildan, Bella+Canvas, Next Level, ATC and Port Authority, which covers a twelve-dollar event tee and a retail-weight hoodie on the same order.
Reorders are where working with one shop pays off. We keep your artwork and your garment specification on file, so the second order is a phone call and the tenth is the same shirt in the same colour with the print in the same place. Staff who joined last month end up matching the ones who joined three years ago, which sounds trivial until you see a team photograph where they do not.
How it worksQUOTE → ARTWORK → PROOF → PRODUCTION
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Quote
Tell us what you need — a photo of the old sign is enough to start. You get a written quote back within 24 hours on weekdays, with the specs written out so you can compare it to anyone else's.
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Artwork
Send print-ready files and we use them as they are. Send a logo and a rough idea and we set it here, with the setup quoted up front rather than added at the end.
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Proof approval
Nothing goes to production until you approve a proof in writing. On print that is a PDF at size; on apparel it is a mockup on the actual garment colour. Turnaround starts from this step, not from the deposit.
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Production and delivery
We produce it here and deliver across the GTA, or hold it for pickup in Mississauga if that is faster. Your artwork stays on file, so the reorder skips straight to production.
FAQASKED IN THIS CITY
Custom apparel in Mississauga, answered
Do you have a minimum for custom t-shirts in Mississauga?
Not for DTF — one shirt is a real order. Screen printing starts at 24 pieces per design, because each colour needs its own screen. Below 24, DTF is almost always cheaper and we will tell you so.
How fast can I get shirts printed in Mississauga?
Seven to ten business days is standard from proof approval, assuming the blanks are in the building. Rush is possible and quoted per job, since availability of the garment decides it rather than our press time.
Can you decorate shirts I already have?
Yes. Bring or ship your own garments and we decorate them. They need to arrive clean and unworn, and for a large run we suggest supplying one to test first — we cannot guarantee against a garment that shrinks or scorches in the press.
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Tell us what you need. We’ll quote it in a day.
Send artwork if you have it, a photo of the old sign if you don’t. Weekdays, you get a written quote back within 24 hours.