Arlington, VA · Virginia

Screen printing in Arlington, VA

Team shirts and event apparel for Clarendon, Ballston, Rosslyn and National Landing — quoted honestly, proofed before press.

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 Arlington

Why Arlington orders look the way they do

Arlington runs two economies at once and both of them buy shirts. There is the professional layer — government contractors, consultancies, and the tech employers concentrated around National Landing and Ballston — ordering onboarding apparel, hackathon tees and conference merch. And there is the neighborhood layer: civic associations, youth sports, school groups and the restaurants along Clarendon and Columbia Pike.

The professional orders tend to be time-boxed and brand-controlled. A team offsite has a date, a marketing lead has a brand guide, and the shirt has to match the deck. The neighborhood orders are more forgiving on brand but tighter on budget, and they repeat every year, which makes screen printing the right economics — the setup gets amortized once and reorders skip it entirely when the art is unchanged.

We print in College Park and ship across the river. There is no showroom to visit in Clarendon, which spares everyone the parking.

We ship across Arlington

  • Clarendon
  • Ballston
  • Rosslyn
  • National Landing & Crystal City
  • Pentagon City
  • Courthouse
  • Shirlington
  • Virginia Square
  • Cherrydale
  • Westover
  • Columbia Pike
  • Lyon Village

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

Tech teams & startups

Launch tees, hackathon shirts and offsite apparel around Ballston and National Landing. Usually one or two colors on a soft retail-fit garment, which screen prints cheaply and wears well enough that people keep it.

Government contractors

Onboarding kits, team apparel and conference booth staff shirts. Brand guides are enforced here, so send PMS values and we will mix to them rather than eyeballing a match.

Civic & neighborhood associations

Cleanup day tees, block party shirts and volunteer apparel. Repeat annual orders where the art barely changes — exactly the case where screen printing setup pays for itself.

Youth sports & school teams

League jerseys, spirit wear and tournament shirts. A shared crest across multiple teams is one setup, not one per team, which is where most of the savings hide.

Nonprofits & advocacy groups

Fundraiser tees, 5K shirts and volunteer apparel. Twelve-piece minimum with one-color pricing keeps the shirts from consuming the event budget.

Restaurants & local business

Staff tees and embroidered work shirts along Clarendon, Shirlington and Columbia Pike. The brief is always the same: make year three match year one.

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

Screen Printing in Arlington, answered

Yes. We print in College Park and ship, so the Potomac is not a factor — an Arlington address is the same transit as a Maryland one for practical purposes. Shipping is quoted inside the job rather than appearing as a surprise line at checkout. There is no storefront to visit on either side of the river.

Technically several, practically it is a cost decision. Each color is its own screen, its own setup charge and its own pass through the press. One and two colors are where screen printing is dramatically cheaper than the alternatives. Past roughly four colors, DTF usually beats it under a hundred pieces because it carries no per-color setup at all. We will price both and recommend the cheaper one.

Yes, using the Pantone Matching System. Send the PMS values from your brand guide and we mix to them. If you only have hex or RGB values from a website, we will convert and show you the closest achievable match on the proof — worth reviewing, because a color that looks right on a backlit screen behaves differently as ink on a garment.

Ten to fourteen business days for screen printing from proof approval, or 5 to 7 for DTF. Rush at 5 days carries a 20% surcharge. The variable people underestimate is their own approval time — the clock starts when you sign off on the proof, not when you first reach out, so getting final artwork to us early is the single biggest thing you control.

Twelve pieces total, mixed across sizes freely. For a startup with fourteen people or a neighborhood association with a twenty-person volunteer crew, that is reachable. It applies per order, not per design — though each additional design carries its own setup.

Yes — hoodies, crewnecks, quarter-zips, caps and bags. Heavier garments change the print economics slightly because the garment cost dominates, so the difference between a one-color and a three-color design matters proportionally less on a hoodie than on a tee. If you are deciding between printing and embroidery on outerwear, embroidery usually looks better and lasts longer, and we will say so.

Get started

Get a quote for your Arlington 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.