“How much for custom shirts?” is the first question everyone asks, and any shop that answers with one number is guessing. Here’s what actually moves the price, so you can control it.
1. Quantity is the biggest lever
Printing has setup work baked in, especially screen printing, where each color in your design needs its own screen. That setup cost is spread across the run: order more shirts and the price per shirt drops fast. This is why a 100-shirt order can cost far less per piece than a 10-shirt order of the same design.
2. The garment you pick
A basic cotton tee and a retail-soft tri-blend can differ by several dollars before ink ever touches them. Neither choice is wrong: workhorse tees are perfect for events and giveaways, while premium blanks make sense for merch people buy. Browse our catalog and we’ll match blanks to your budget.
3. The print itself
For screen printing, more ink colors means more screens, which means more setup. A one-color print on one location is the budget option; a five-color front-and-back is a bigger production. DTF doesn’t care about color count at all, which is why it wins for small, colorful jobs.
4. Extras worth knowing about
Rush timelines, oversized prints, specialty inks, and add-on locations (sleeves, back necks) all nudge the number. None are secrets; we’ll flag anything that changes your quote before you commit.
So… what will YOUR shirts cost?
Send us three things: roughly how many, what kind of garment, and the design (or the idea, we draw too). You’ll get a real quote with real numbers, and if there’s a cheaper way to get the same look, we’ll tell you.
