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Full-Color Print Collection

DTF
SHIRTS

Direct-to-film printing — full-color, photo-quality, no setup fees, no minimum. Perfect for short runs, complex art, and mixed-design orders.

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SHIRTS — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

DTF (Direct-to-Film) printing is the technology that finally killed the 'we need 24-piece minimum' rule for full-color custom shirt orders. It prints your art onto a transfer film with CMYK + white inks, cures an adhesive powder over the wet ink, and heat-presses the film onto the garment. The result is a photo-quality full-color print with a soft hand-feel that survives the wash like a high-quality screen print — but with none of the screen-setup overhead.

We added DTF to our shop because customers kept asking for the same thing: a small run (8–20 shirts) of a complex multi-color design without paying the per-color screen-setup fees that make small screen-print runs uneconomical. DTF gives you the screen-print look with no minimum, no setup fees, no color limits, and no per-color charges. Order one shirt or a hundred — same per-unit price curve.

DTF works equally well on cotton, polyester, and blends. The white-ink underbase makes designs pop on dark fabrics (black, navy, forest, charcoal) without losing color saturation. We've successfully DTF-printed on premium Bella+Canvas 3001 (the merch-line standard), Next Level 6210 tri-blends (the soft-hand vintage feel), Comfort Colors 1717 garment-dyed (the boutique/lifestyle look), and Sport-Tek ST350 100% polyester (athletic and performance). The print looks identical across substrates.

Durability is the question everyone asks. Commercial-grade DTF — which is what we run, using Epson printer arrays with premium inks and adhesive powders — survives 50+ wash cycles without cracking or peeling when laundered inside-out on cold and tumble-dried on low. The difference between cheap DTF that fails after 10 washes and commercial DTF that outlasts the garment is the printer, the ink, and the powder. We use only commercial-grade everything.

Pricing follows the same volume ladder as our other shirts: $25 per tee at qty 1-5, $23 at 6-11, $20 at 12-23, down to $12 at 200+. There are no setup fees, no per-color upcharges, and no minimum quantity. If you've been quoted a $40 minimum setup fee for a screen-print order, ask us for the DTF quote — the same shirt at the same quantity is almost always cheaper end-to-end on DTF.

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DTF SHIRT BUILDS

Click a build to spec your blank, color, and print. Or jump into the shirt configurator to mockup any S&S shirt blank with your DTF art.

DTF Crew Tee — Bella+Canvas 3001
Best Seller

DTF Crew Tee — Bella+Canvas 3001

Premium retail-feel cotton tee with full-color DTF print. The bestselling blank for merch drops and event shirts.

From $25

DTF Comfort Colors Tee
Lifestyle

DTF Comfort Colors Tee

Garment-dyed 6.1oz heavyweight Comfort Colors 1717 with full-color DTF. The relaxed, washed look for boutique and lifestyle drops.

From $22

Build Your Own — DTF Shirt
Configurator

Build Your Own — DTF Shirt

Browse the live S&S shirt catalog (Bella+Canvas, Next Level, Gildan, Comfort Colors), pick blank + color, see your art live before ordering.

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DTF Print FAQ

DTF PRINTING, ANSWERED

What is DTF printing and how does it differ from screen print?+
DTF (Direct-to-Film) prints your artwork onto a special film with CMYK + white ink, lays an adhesive powder over the wet ink, cures it, and heat-presses the printed film onto the garment. The result is a full-color, photo-quality print with a soft hand-feel that survives wash cycles as well as a high-quality screen print. The advantage over screen printing: no setup fees, no color limits, and no minimums — DTF works as well for one shirt as it does for a hundred.
When should I choose DTF over screen print?+
DTF wins on small runs (under 24 shirts), full-color/photo art, complex designs with gradients or fine detail, and orders that mix multiple designs across the run. Screen print wins on very large runs (100+ shirts of the same design) where the per-unit cost beats DTF, and on specialty inks (puff, glow-in-dark, metallic) that DTF can't replicate. For most custom-shirt projects under 50 units with detailed art, DTF is the better choice.
How durable is DTF in the wash?+
Properly applied DTF prints survive 50+ wash cycles without cracking, peeling, or fading — when washed inside-out on cold and tumble-dried on low. We use commercial-grade Epson printer arrays with premium DTF inks and adhesive powders, which is the difference between a print that fails after 10 washes (cheap DTF) and one that outlasts the garment (commercial DTF). Care label included with every order.
Can DTF print on cotton, poly, blends, and dark colors?+
Yes to all. DTF uses a white-ink underbase that makes colors pop on dark fabrics, and the adhesive bonds to cotton, polyester, cotton/poly blends, and tri-blends equally well. We've successfully DTF-printed onto premium Bella+Canvas 3001 100% cotton, Next Level 6210 tri-blends, Comfort Colors 1717 garment-dyed cotton, and Sport-Tek ST350 100% polyester performance tees. The print looks identical across substrates.
What's the minimum order for DTF shirts?+
No minimum. We'll happily produce a single DTF shirt for a custom one-off, an 8-piece prototype run for a brand test, or 200+ pieces for a merch drop. Pricing follows the same volume curve as our other shirts — $25/shirt at qty 1-5 on a Bella+Canvas 3001, $20/shirt at 12-23, all the way down to $12/shirt at 200+.

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No minimum. No setup fees. No color limits. Send the art, pick the blank, and we'll quote you in one business day.

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