Alexandria, VA · Virginia

Custom apparel printing in Alexandria, VA

Staff uniforms, retail merch and event apparel for Old Town, Del Ray, Carlyle and Potomac Yard.

Quote Request

Tell us what you need printed

Send the details and you will get a written quote back — usually within one business day — with the garment cost, setup and per-location printing broken out. No account to create, nothing charged, and no obligation to order.

Prefer to talk it through? Call 786-302-9144.

No obligation. We reply with a real number, usually within one business day.

01 — The difference

A printer that answers, not a checkout that guesses

An online bulk uploader

  • — Price quoted before anyone has looked at your artwork
  • — No proof, or a proof you cannot change
  • — Color "close enough" to your brand guide
  • — Support is a ticket queue in another time zone
  • — Reorder next year does not match this year

Boring Tees

  • — A human reviews your art before quoting it
  • — Digital proof, revised until you approve it
  • — Pantone matched to your actual brand values
  • 786-302-9144 reaches someone who knows your job
  • — Artwork, inks and garments documented for the reorder
  • — We will point you to the cheaper method, even when it earns us less

02 — Serving Alexandria

Why Alexandria orders look the way they do

Alexandria is the most retail-facing market we serve, and that changes what the apparel has to do. In Old Town and Del Ray a shirt is frequently merchandise — something a visitor buys, not something a company hands out. It has to survive being looked at closely on a rack and priced against a shop next door doing the same thing.

That pushes the work toward quality of print rather than lowest unit cost. A soft retail-fit garment with a clean two-color print will sell; a boxy heavyweight tee with a cracked plastisol slab will sit. We steer merchandise orders toward retail-weight blanks from Bella+Canvas or Next Level and toward print methods that stay soft on the hand, because the shirt is the product rather than the packaging.

The other half of Alexandria is ordinary and steady: restaurant staff shirts, church and school groups, rowing and youth sports clubs on the waterfront, and the trades working out of Eisenhower Valley and Alexandria West. Those want consistency and a printer who picks up the phone.

We ship across Alexandria

  • Old Town
  • Del Ray
  • Carlyle
  • Potomac Yard
  • Eisenhower Valley
  • Rosemont
  • Arlandria
  • Alexandria West
  • Huntington
  • Kingstowne
  • Seminary Hill
  • Cameron Station

Printed in College Park, Maryland — about 45 minutes from Alexandria — and shipped to your address, your office or your venue. We are appointment-only and do not run a walk-in counter, so there is nothing to drive to and no showroom hours to work around.

03 — How it works

Four steps. You do two of them.

Turnaround is measured from proof approval, not from your first email — which means getting final artwork to us early is the single biggest thing you control.

  1. 01

    Tell us what you need

    Quantity, garment, artwork and your date. If you do not know which print method fits, say so — recommending one is part of the quote, not an upsell.

  2. 02

    You get a real quote

    A written number, broken out so you can see what the garments cost, what the setup costs and what each print location adds. Not a range, and not "starting at."

  3. 03

    Approve the digital proof

    We send a proof showing exact placement, dimensions and colors on the garment color you picked. Nothing goes to press until you sign off. The production clock starts here.

  4. 04

    It prints and ships to you

    Screen printing and embroidery run 10–14 business days, DTF 5–7. A 5-day rush is available for 20% more. Shipping is quoted with the job, not tacked on at the end.

04 — Who we print for

Built for how Alexandria actually orders

Retail & merchandise

Shirts that get sold rather than given away. Retail-fit blanks and a soft hand on the print, because in an Old Town shop the garment competes on a rack instead of arriving in a swag bag.

Restaurants & hospitality

Front-of-house tees and back-of-house work shirts across Old Town, Del Ray and the waterfront. Consistent reorders in a matching colorway are the whole requirement.

Churches & faith communities

Youth group shirts, mission trip apparel, volunteer and usher polos. Predictable annual reorders where keeping year two matching year one is the actual value.

Rowing, running & youth sports

Club apparel, regatta and race shirts, team warmups. Performance fabrics require different ink and cure handling than cotton, so name the garment when you ask for a quote.

Schools & PTAs

Spirit wear, fundraiser shirts, field day tees and staff appreciation apparel. We will quote to a budget number and tell you what quantity reaches it.

Trades & service business

Embroidered work shirts, caps and hi-vis for contractors and service crews out of Eisenhower Valley and Alexandria West. Stitching survives a work week that printing does not.

05 — Methods

Three ways to put your logo on a garment

Screen Printing

14" × 17" max imprint · 10–14 business days

Ink pushed through a stencil, one screen per color. Cheapest per piece at volume on one- and two-color designs, and the most durable finish we offer. Setup is charged per color per location.

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Embroidery

Digitized once per logo · 10–14 business days

Stitched directly into the garment. The right choice for polos, quarter-zips, caps and anything worn to work — it survives industrial laundering that would crack a print. Cannot render gradients or hairline type.

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DTF Printing

13" × 19" max imprint · 5–7 business days

Full-color transfer heat-pressed onto the garment. No per-color setup, so photographs, gradients and complex artwork cost the same as a one-color logo. Usually the cheapest option under 100 pieces.

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06 — What drives your price

No per-shirt price list, because it would be a lie

Anyone quoting you a flat per-shirt number before seeing your artwork is guessing, and the guess is usually low. Four things set the price, and we will show you all four broken out on your quote.

Quantity
Setup is a fixed cost spread across the run, so the per-piece price falls sharply as the order grows. Minimum is 12 pieces, mixed across sizes.
Ink colors
Screen printing charges a setup per color per location. DTF charges none — which is why full-color designs often come out cheaper as DTF below about 100 pieces.
Print locations
Front, back and sleeve are three locations, each its own setup and press pass. The same artwork reused at the same size and colors is charged setup once, not three times.
Garment
The blank is often the largest line on the invoice, especially on fleece and outerwear. We will show you two or three options at different price points rather than picking for you.

12 piecesMinimum order, mixed freely across sizes.

+20%5-business-day rush, when the calendar requires it.

$35Art change fee, if the design moves after approval.

07 — Questions

Custom Apparel Printing in Alexandria, answered

Retail-weight blanks — Bella+Canvas or Next Level rather than a heavyweight promotional tee. They fit closer, feel softer, and price better against whatever is on the rack next door. On the print side, ask us for a soft-hand finish; a thick plastisol slab reads as promotional and is the fastest way to make a $32 shirt feel like a giveaway. Order a small run first, see what sells, then reorder — the setup is already paid at that point.

Four inputs: quantity, ink colors, print locations and garment. Setup is charged once per design per location, so the first twelve shirts carry the full setup and every shirt after that gets cheaper. If you are testing a design, know that the reorder is meaningfully cheaper than the first run because setup is not charged again when art, size and colors are unchanged.

Yes. Aprons, caps, tote bags and similar items are routine for restaurant and retail work. Caps embroider better than they print because of the curve and the seam. Bags depend on the material and construction, so send the exact item you have in mind and we will tell you whether it will take a clean print before you buy a case of them.

Twelve pieces per order across all sizes. Splitting across two designs means two setups, so twelve pieces in one design is materially cheaper than six and six. If you want to test two designs, the honest advice is to run twelve of the one you believe in and reorder rather than halving the run.

Ten to fourteen business days for screen printing and embroidery, 5 to 7 for DTF, counted from your approval of the digital proof. A 5-day rush is available at a 20% surcharge. For seasonal retail — a summer or holiday run — plan backward from the date you want it on the rack, not from the date the season starts.

Always, and nothing goes to press without it. Every order gets a digital proof showing exact placement, dimensions and colors on the actual garment color you selected. You approve it in writing and the production clock starts then. If something is off — placement two inches low, a color reading wrong — that is the moment to catch it, and it costs nothing to fix at that stage.

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Get a quote for your Alexandria order

Twelve-piece minimum, a digital proof before anything goes to press, and a written quote with nothing hidden in it. Or call 786-302-9144 and talk to someone.

No obligation. We reply with a real number, usually within one business day.