Rockville, MD · Maryland

Custom t-shirts in Rockville, MD

Company tees, event shirts and staff apparel for the I-270 corridor, Town Center, King Farm and Twinbrook.

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 Rockville

Why Rockville orders look the way they do

Rockville is the county seat and the front door to the I-270 biotech corridor, and its apparel orders reflect both. On one side there are county-adjacent organizations, Montgomery College groups, recreation leagues and civic associations. On the other there are life sciences companies running recruiting events, all-hands meetings and conference booths — organizations that need a hundred shirts on a date and cannot afford a printer who goes quiet for a week.

That second group tends to arrive with a design that is more complex than a one-color logo: a full-color brand mark, a gradient, an event graphic with a photograph in it. Screen printing charges per color, so a six-color design gets expensive fast at moderate quantities. DTF does not — it prints unlimited colors with no per-color setup, which usually makes it the cheaper answer under a hundred pieces. We will run the comparison for you rather than defaulting to whichever method is more convenient for us.

Everything prints in College Park and ships. No storefront, no showroom hours, no drive up the Pike.

We ship across Rockville

  • Rockville Town Center
  • King Farm
  • Twinbrook
  • Fallsgrove
  • Shady Grove
  • Derwood
  • North Bethesda
  • Montgomery Village
  • Gaithersburg
  • Potomac
  • Aspen Hill
  • Washington Grove

Printed in College Park, Maryland — about 35 minutes from Rockville — 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 Rockville actually orders

Biotech & life sciences

All-hands tees, recruiting-event shirts and conference booth apparel along the I-270 corridor. Full-color brand marks usually print cheaper as DTF than as a six-color screen job under a hundred pieces.

County & civic organizations

Volunteer shirts, community event tees and staff apparel. Straightforward one- and two-color work that has to land on a fixed public date, which means the proof cycle starts early.

Schools, colleges & student groups

Montgomery College clubs, high school spirit wear, PTA fundraisers and team shirts. We quote to a budget number so a fundraiser actually clears a margin.

Rec leagues & fitness

League jerseys, 5K shirts, gym and studio apparel. Performance fabrics need different ink and cure handling than cotton, so tell us the garment up front.

Restaurants & retail

Staff tees and embroidered work shirts around Town Center and Rockville Pike. Reorders in a matching colorway are the recurring request, so we document ink and garment on order one.

Professional services

Client-event apparel, embroidered polos and onboarding shirts for firms in the Town Center offices. Embroidery when it needs to look like a uniform, print when it needs to look like a giveaway.

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 T-Shirts in Rockville, answered

It depends on colors and quantity. Screen printing charges a setup per ink color per location, so a one-color logo on 200 shirts is very cheap per unit and a six-color graphic on 40 shirts is not. DTF has no per-color setup, so full-color and photographic designs at lower quantities usually come out cheaper. Send the artwork and quantity and we will price both and tell you which one wins — including when the answer is the method with the lower margin for us.

Yes. Standard is 10 to 14 business days for screen printing and embroidery and 5 to 7 for DTF, all counted from proof approval. A 5-day rush is available at a 20% surcharge. The honest constraint is the proof cycle — if approval takes four days, the rush window shrinks by four days. Send final artwork with your first message and the whole thing gets faster.

Yes, and it is a different process than cotton. Polyester and performance blends need specific inks and cure handling to avoid dye migration — the effect where the garment color bleeds up through a light-colored print after a few days. Tell us the exact garment when you request the quote and we will select accordingly rather than discovering it after the run.

Port Authority, Gildan, Next Level, Bella+Canvas and American Apparel are our regulars, and we can source more widely from the catalog if you have a specific style in mind. Gildan is the budget workhorse for high-volume event shirts, Bella+Canvas and Next Level are softer and fit closer for staff and merch, and Port Authority is where we go for polos and outerwear.

Yes. Each print location is priced separately because each one is its own setup and its own pass through the press. Front plus back plus a sleeve is three locations. If the same artwork appears in more than one location at the same size and colors, the setup is charged once rather than three times — worth knowing when you are deciding how many placements the budget supports.

Call or send the form: quantity, garment, print method if you know it, and your artwork. We come back with a written quote. You approve it, we send a digital proof showing exact placement and colors, and nothing goes to press until you sign off on that proof. Then it prints and ships to whatever address you give us. Most orders never require a phone call, but the number is real and someone picks it up.

Get started

Get a quote for your Rockville 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.