Spirit wear, class shirts, club tees, and field trip shirts — with the size breakdown entered online instead of emailed on a spreadsheet, and a price you can take to the booster meeting the same day.
Somebody collects sizes on a paper form. Half are wrong. There is a hard date, the budget came out of a fundraiser, and whoever is organizing it is doing it on top of a full-time job.
So the size grid lives in the editor — enter what you collected, see the total update, and know your real cost before you commit to anything. Then we box the finished shirts sorted by size, or split by class or grade if you tell us how, so distribution day is not a floor covered in shirts.
Most print shops ask you to email artwork and describe what you want. Then you wait, and hope the thing that shows up matches the thing in your head. We built the editor to delete that entire gap.
No phone calls. No paper forms. No guessing. Start your order and you will have a real price in about two minutes.
Two levers, both under your control and both visible live in the editor. Ink colors: a one-color design on a colored shirt looks intentional and costs meaningfully less than a four-color print. And quantity: the jump from 50 to 100 usually drops the per-shirt price more than people expect. Try both numbers before you decide.
Selling these to raise money? Price against the editor quote and the margin is yours. You will know your exact cost per shirt before you set a sale price.
The editor accepts image files directly. Which formats depend on the method, because the methods need different things from your file.
| Method | Accepted files | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Screen printing | PNG only | Needs a transparent background and hard edges so each ink color separates cleanly onto its own screen. |
| DTF / full color | PNG or JPG | Prints full color, so a flat photographic file works. PNG still preferred if you want a transparent background. |
| Embroidery | PNG or JPG | We convert your image to a stitch file, so either works. Clean, high contrast art stitches best. |
| Sublimation | PNG or JPG | Full color process, same as DTF. |
Rule of thumb: screen printing needs a PNG. A JPG cannot hold a transparent background — it fills it in white — and that white box will print. Everything else takes PNG or JPG.
Yes — youth XS through youth XL, mixed into the same run as adult sizes at no extra charge. Worth noting a print sized for an adult back looks oversized on a youth small, so tell us in the job notes if you want the art scaled down for the youth range.
If you have the rights to it, yes. Licensed collegiate and professional marks need documented permission from the rights holder before we can print them, and we will ask for that.
Not if you tell us at the start. Put the date in the job notes and we confirm in writing whether it is achievable before producing. Rush runs 24–72 hours if you are already tight.
Build the job in the online editor and the price appears as you go. Change the quantity, ink colors, garment, or print locations and the number updates immediately.
There is no quote form and nothing to wait for. Most people have a real number inside two minutes.
15 pieces per design. Screen printing has fixed setup work — burning screens and registering the press — that happens whether you order 15 shirts or 500.
Need fewer? Switch the method to DTF in the editor. No minimum, full color, and a single shirt is a normal order.
Three things move the price: quantity, ink colors, and which blank you pick. More pieces and fewer colors means less per shirt. Screens are a one-time $30 per color, and we keep them on file so reorders skip that charge.
Rather than quote ranges at you, the editor prices your exact job live.
Standard turnaround is 5–10 business days. Rush runs 24–72 hours depending on the size of the run and what is on the press schedule.
Hard deadline — a game, an opening, a shift change? Put it in the job notes when you order and we will confirm in writing before we produce.
Yes. We mix plastisol to Pantone (PMS) numbers. Set your ink colors in the editor, and if you have official PMS codes put them in the job notes so we match to those rather than to our best guess.
Screen printing: PNG only. DTF, embroidery, and sublimation: PNG or JPG.
You upload the file directly in the editor and see it land on the garment immediately, so you know it worked before you order.
Because a JPG cannot store a transparent background. It fills transparency with white, and on press that white becomes a printed white box around your design. PNG keeps the background genuinely empty and holds the hard edges each screen needs.
If all you have is a JPG for a screen print job, send it to sales@a1aprintshop.com and our art department will convert it properly.
That is what sales@a1aprintshop.com is for. Send whatever you have — vector files, a PDF, a photo of something drawn on paper — and our art department turns it into a print-ready file.
Once it is ready you will have a PNG you can drop straight into the editor and order like anything else. The email route is for artwork only; ordering still happens in the editor.
Yes, at no extra charge, and you enter the breakdown yourself in the editor — a grid of sizes by garment color, so you can see exactly what you are ordering.
2XL and up carry a small blank upcharge from the mill, which the editor applies automatically. We box everything sorted by size.
Build your job online and the quote updates in real time. Or call the shop and we will walk you through it.