Silver Spring, MD · Maryland

Screen printing in Silver Spring, MD

Team shirts, volunteer tees and staff uniforms for downtown Silver Spring, Wheaton, Takoma Park and White Oak.

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 Silver Spring

Why Silver Spring orders look the way they do

Silver Spring orders apparel for a different reason than downtown DC does. Less conference, more community. The volume here comes from youth sports leagues, church congregations, county-adjacent nonprofits, health organizations clustered around White Oak, and small businesses along Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street that have been in the same storefront for twenty years.

Those orders share a shape: modest quantities, repeated on a schedule, with a design that barely changes year to year. A soccer league orders the same crest in a new season color. A congregation reprints the youth group shirt every summer. That is exactly what screen printing is good at — the setup cost gets amortized across the run, and once the art is on file the reorder skips the setup entirely if the size and colors stay put.

We are in College Park, which is close enough that most Silver Spring orders reach their destination the day after they leave the shop. There is no storefront to visit — we work by phone, email and digital proof.

We ship across Silver Spring

  • Downtown Silver Spring
  • Takoma Park
  • Wheaton
  • Four Corners
  • White Oak
  • Woodside
  • Forest Glen
  • Aspen Hill
  • Colesville
  • Burtonsville
  • Glenmont
  • Layhill

Printed in College Park, Maryland — about 20 minutes from Silver Spring — 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 Silver Spring actually orders

Youth sports & rec leagues

Season jerseys, coach polos and tournament tees for Montgomery County leagues. Numbers and player names are handled per-shirt; the crest stays on one screen so next season costs less than this one.

Churches & congregations

Youth group shirts, VBS tees, mission trip apparel and usher polos. Most congregations reorder annually, so we document the ink colors and garment style to keep year two matching year one.

Nonprofits & community orgs

Volunteer shirts, food drive tees, neighborhood cleanup apparel. One-color prints on a twelve-piece minimum keep the per-shirt cost where a grant budget can absorb it.

Schools, PTAs & student groups

Spirit wear, club shirts, field trip tees and staff appreciation apparel. We will work to a PTA budget number and tell you what quantity gets you there instead of quoting one price and hoping.

Small business & trades

Embroidered work shirts and screen-printed crew tees for contractors, salons, landscapers and restaurants along Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street. Reorder consistency is the whole job.

Health & research organizations

Staff apparel, health fair volunteer tees and event shirts for the organizations clustered near White Oak. Embroidered polos when the shirt needs to read professional rather than promotional.

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 Silver Spring, answered

Price comes from four things: how many pieces, how many ink colors, how many print locations, and which garment. Setup is charged once per design per location — so the same left-chest logo on 24 shirts and on 240 shirts carries the same setup, which is why the per-shirt cost drops sharply as quantity rises. Send us the quantity and the artwork and you will get a real number, not a range.

Regularly. The usual pattern is a league crest printed on one screen across every team, with team colors changing per roster. Because the crest is a single setup reused across the order, splitting across six teams costs far less than six separate orders. Get us the roster sizes and the crest file and we will break the quote out per team so treasurers can reconcile it.

Yes, and it is cheaper the second time. We keep your artwork, ink colors and garment style on file. As long as the art, size and colors are unchanged, the setup is not charged again — you pay for garments and printing only. If you change the ink color or the print dimensions, that counts as a new setup.

Twelve pieces per order, and yes, mix sizes however you need. Twelve is the total across the order, not per size. Youth and adult sizes can sit in the same order, which matters for league and congregation work where the roster spans a nine-year-old and a coach.

Maximum imprint for screen printing is 14 inches wide by 17 inches tall on adult garments, which covers a standard full-front or full-back design with room to spare. DTF tops out at 13 by 19 inches. On youth sizes the printable area is smaller, and we will scale the art proportionally and show you the result on the proof rather than guessing.

Vector files are best — AI, EPS or PDF with the text converted to outlines. A 300 dpi PNG or JPG usually works too. If all you have is a logo grabbed off a website, send it anyway; we will tell you honestly whether it will print cleanly at size or whether it needs to be redrawn first, and redrawing is a design charge we quote before we start.

Get started

Get a quote for your Silver Spring 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.