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Custom printed polo shirts, hoodies, jackets and hats each take a print differently, because the fabric, the shape and the way the garment is worn change what lasts. Custom print clothing is not one method applied to everything. This guide explains printing on clothes garment by garment: which method suits each, what it costs where a price is published, and how men's, women's and kids' orders are handled.
Clothes printing: the garment decides the method
Clothes printing at production scale uses screen print, DTF, sublimation and embroidery. Cotton and fleece take screen print and DTF; polyester takes sublimation; caps and outerwear usually suit embroidery. One order can carry several garments, such as a printed tee, an embroidered polo and a printed hoodie in the same colours, each as its own design of 50 pieces, with sizes mixed inside each. Every garment and position is shown on a digital mockup before production, and production takes 10 to 15 working days after you approve it.
Custom printed polo shirts
Our polos come in breathable piqué cotton or performance polyester blends, with structured collars, in classic and slim fits and a full XS to 5XL size run. Embroidery is the premium standard on a polo, because a stitched chest logo is durable and sits well on piqué. Custom polo shirt printing suits larger or full-colour designs, such as a print across the back, where stitching would be heavy and costly. The two can be combined: an embroidered chest logo with a printed back.
A white polo shirt with a contrast collar, side panels or a chest stripe is among the polos we have made; colours, panels and trims are set to your brief and shown on the mockup. Personalised polo t shirts with each wearer's name across the back are made inside one design, so names do not split the 50-piece minimum. For staff uniform programmes, ladies-fit polos are cut properly rather than scaled down; see corporate uniforms.
Cheap personalised polo shirts in the UK: what lowers the price
Printed polo t shirts and embroidered polos start from £15 each at 50 pieces. The price per polo falls as the quantity rises, up to 35% off at 1,000 pieces or more. Fewer decoration positions, fewer colours in a screen print and a smaller embroidered logo all bring it down further. The quote itemises each line, so you can see what every change would save. Fabrics, fits and colours are on the polo shirts range.
Custom print hoodies and printed sweaters
Our hoodies are brushed-back fleece from 280 to 450 GSM, as pullovers, full-zip or quarter-zip, in unisex and fitted women's cuts. The full back takes the largest print, puff print gives a raised texture, and on a full-zip a print cannot cross the zip, so the main design moves to the back. Printed hoodies start from £30 each at 50 pieces. Our hoodie printing page compares every method on fleece.
Printed sweaters, in the sense of sweatshirts, take the same methods as hoodies: screen print for bold colour, DTF for full-colour art, embroidery for a crest. If you were planning to print your own hoodie at home, the home options are the same as for a tee, iron-on paper and heat transfer vinyl, with the same limit: they suit one or two pieces, not a run of 50 that has to match. That is the job of a hoodie printer working in production.
Custom printed jackets
Jackets are where printing most often gives way to embroidery. Embroidery is the standard on softshells, puffers, fleeces and gilets because it survives weather and washing. Print still has its place: heat-sealed transfers suit waterproof shells, where a needle would pierce the membrane, and a denim jacket takes a bold back print as well as embroidery and patches. So if you want to print a jacket, the construction decides whether a print or a stitch is right.
Custom printed jackets UK orders follow the same 50-piece minimum per design. Jackets are quoted per order, because a fleece and an insulated puffer are not the same product; denim jackets start from £45. See the seven constructions on custom jackets.
Custom printed hats and baseball cap printing
Caps come as snapbacks, dad caps, truckers, fitted caps, 5-panels and beanies. Embroidery, flat or 3D puff, is the most popular and premium finish on a cap, and it stands up to daily wear. Baseball cap printing suits full-colour or photographic designs that stitching cannot reproduce, and woven or leather-look patches sit between the two. Custom hat printing starts at 50 pieces per design, from £12 a cap, with custom under-brims and woven labels available. See wholesale caps.
Printed t shirts for men, women and kids
Mens printed t shirts and custom women's t shirts come from the same tee range: combed ring-spun cotton from 150 to 240 GSM, in classic, fitted, relaxed and oversized boxy fits. For ladies printed t shirts, tell us which fit the wearers want and the quote confirms the cut and size run for your order. Hoodies come in a fitted women's cut as well as unisex, and uniform polos in a ladies fit.
Kids printed t shirts are a different matter. Children's sizes are not listed on our ranges, and we do not make kids' hoodies, so ask before you plan a children's order rather than assuming it can be made.
A note on packaging
Printed mail bags, the outer mailers a parcel ships in, are not something we make. What we print is the inner garment bag: a resealable polythene bag with a hang hole and your logo, sized to the folded garment it holds. See custom polythene bags.
